more mapping

Or, beyond the tangent du jour.

(for more on the thumbnail, and the punchline, see “Death will be your Santa Claus,” Cat and Girl Donation Derby, 2010-10-11)

Structuralism is not dead: it just went underground for a bit to spend some quality time hanging with the hip kids. More fun and productive than bitching about its enemies, the Forces of Weak Pseudo-Thinking, and having to listen to their confused and obfuscating mumblings and witterings. See also: “The Emperor’s New Clothes” (H.C. Andersen trans. Jean Hersholt)

Infographics have been around for a while. They’re not new. They’re still cool. And good to keep in mind if one is thinking about / working on big hairy complicated works with tingle-inducing structures (by which I mean medieval literature, not The Book: I’m not *that* vain).

Some historically-important items:

• Cool Infographics Blog: the grandaddy and grand master of them all
• the Human Factors Blog: Infographics in Movies
• mental_floss Blog: 6 Less-Than-Helpful Infographics (see also: search results for “infographics”)
• Parka Blogs: Rise in Infographics Blogs, Websites And Resources

And another bunch …

• Designer Daily: 14 Visually Stunning Animated Infographics
• Distilled blog: A Resource For Information Visualisation & Infographics
• Econsultancy: 15 more awesome social media infographics
• Francesco Mugnai: 50 great examples of infographics
  
• Fresh Egg: Famous Film Quotes In Infographics
• The Future Buzz: Data Visualization And Infographics To Tell Your Story
• Graphic Design Blog: 15 Interesting Infographics – Transformation of data to visual!
• Hongkiat.com: 50 Informative and Well-designed Infographics
• Inspired Magazine: 20 Essential Infographics & Data Visualization Blogs
• Insure.com: 10 amazing infographics to help you visualize disasters
• One Man and His Blog: Science Online: Cultures Clash over Infographics
• Overthinking It: The Female Character Flowchart
• Chris Devers’s Posterous
• RaceTalkBlog: PR and Social Media Blog | Are Infographics The New B-Roll for Communicators?
• Simple Complexity: Using Infographics to Study Character Relationships – ‘Jules et Jim’
• Smashing Magazine: Data Visualization and Infographics Resources
• Tagxedo – Tag Cloud with Styles
• Technorati Videos: Infographics Rise in Popularity
• TrendLand: The Beauty of Infographics
• Viralblog: Five Most Essential Social Media Infographics
• Wine Crush Blog: Best Wine Infographics Period

Another mapping: Hans Christian Andersen, Legoland–Billund, Denmark.
Image source: Geoff Hunt (all hail, fellow Lego-afficionado!).

The finest result from the logical next step, a Google search for “infographics” + “lego” =

(click highlighted title below to play)

“Cronología del caso de espionaje entre las dos escuderías de F1” (Matías Cortina, El País, 2007-09-24)