Measuring men Drove past this on holiday. Shows the price of a room. For one or two. Unambiguously and instantly. Black on white. Have a look. I already liked signs with multiple men in the [...]

A friend sent me this: From London. From the airport. It shows how long you have to wait. At security. Have a look. London Heathrow, Terminal 5. North and South have the same length. But – how long [...]

Symbols are difficult. Some symbols can only be understood when they are next to each other. Have a look. Source: my photos. Orangerie, Paris. I thought I was right. Because it's for girls here. I [...]

Symbols for worse. I said that once. Everybody understands that. Have a look. Source: The German magazine „Auto, Motor und Sport“, Nr. 14/2013, page 5. Thumbs up is good. Thumbs down is bad. Especially [...]

I scolded the German newspaper “Handelsblatt”. Two years ago. Because it drew wannabe sparklines. That is scribbling that wants to look like sparklines. Have a look. Source: handelsblatt.com/4066396 [...]

The graphic is bad: to understand it, I had to read the whole article. The article though was good: car companies are banks. They give money to the car drivers. The car drivers buy cars with the money [...]

The newspaper "Die Welt" drew a picture. Of 100 eBay stars. 23 are filled, 77 are empty. One star is 10 percent. 10 stars are 100 percent. A star can be filled. Each star has 5 spikes. 2 spikes are 4 percent [...]

I wanted to add something about pictograms and ships. Firstly: There are good pictograms and bad pictograms. The ships are good. As I already said. And as he did. Source: Wall Street Journal, 2010-08-17 [...]

The Handelsblatt website now does sparklines. Nice actually. If only they really were sparklines. Lines in the Handelsblatt articles. Source: handelsblatt.com/4066396, 2011-04-15. Funny: The line for [...]

Drawing pictograms is difficult. The Financial Times divides humans into four and amputates arms. Horrible. A little man represents 500 people. A loose arm 150. Strange currency. Source: Financial Times [...]

One of my rules for all charts: My rules are not for all charts. In an issue of the USA Today: How do youth hockey players injure. Very often somehow. And quite often others. Intentionally. A decogram [...]

Even the German Constitution is concerned with charts. Human beings must not be shrunk. See Article 1. This also applies to politicians. And the German newspaper Handelsblatt. Source: Handelsblatt, no [...]

The Financial Times folded flags. To little houses. Cut apart. And distorted. Totally. 11 is hardly as large as 22. With the flags it's mean. The scaling is even meaner. The chart is bad und nothing fits [...]

It's the school's fault. They say so. But not here: most information designers create junk charts when using areas. In 7th grade kids learn how it is right and wrong. It makes them competent with media. Lambacher [...]

I visited my friend Namib. He lives at the Epupa Falls. They are in the North of Namibia, on the border to Angola. By day he tends goats. In the evenings he thinks about visualization. Bella [...]

Yesterday was perfect. He stumbled over Maeda’s lifecounter. Ten minutes later we left the office – and spent the rest of the day in the woods. (Thanks, John!) Today is different. I heard him gnarl [...]