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• Hacktivism: The Action of Anonymous Part II

  
  • 17 Dec 2012
  • Activism , Animation , Blogs , Collaborations , Culture , Design , Gaming , Hacktivism , History , Infographics , Occupy Movement , Politics , Uncategorized , Viral , Web

  Click here to read Part I Update: Anonymous reaction to Westboro Baptist Church members plan to picket at the funerals of the Sandy Hook School school children killed on Friday Westboro Baptist Church... Continue →

• Behind the Mask: Anonymous, Masks & Halloween

  
  • 31 Oct 2012
  • Activism , Collaborations , crowdsourcing , Culture , Data , Design , Gaming , Graphic Design , Graphic Novels , Hacktivism , Halloween , Infographics , Interactive Infographics , Multi-Media , news , Occupy Movement , Photographs , Political Posters , Politics , Social Equality , Social Media , Uncategorized , Video , Viral , Web

  The Sexy Hacktivist War of Anonymous Part One of Three-Part Blog Special We are an anonymous, decentralized movement which fights against censorship and copywrong. This is our homepage. Please look a... Continue →

• Cans to Craftsmanship: the rise of the artisan economy

  
  • 03 Oct 2012
  • Advertising , Apps , Archives , Art , Art History , Artisan Economy , Arts , Culture , Design , Enivronmentalism , Facebook , Film , Graphic Art , Graphic Design , History , Multi-Media , Music , Music History , news , Photographs , Photography , Product Design , Social Media , Twitter , Uncategorized , Video , Web

  Now that it is officially fall, we can safely begin slurping up soup without breaking a sweat. And, while we are at it, why don’t we go on a little trip down memory lane and revisit the “m... Continue →

• Digital Afterlife, Man Ray’s Birthday & Occupy Poster Art

  
  • 04 Sep 2012
  • Apps , Archives , Art , Art History , Arts , Blogs , Culture , Dada , Dance , Design , Digital Afterlife , Facebook , Fashion Design , Graphic Art , Graphic Design , History , Infographics , Meme , news , Occupy Movement , Paris Between the Wars , Photographs , Photography , Political Posters , Politics , Publishing , Rayographs , Social Equality , Social Media , Surrealism , Uncategorized , Viral

  30 Million Facebook Accounts Belong to the Dead This is the number I recently read online when I began searching the internet to see what happened to people’s Facebook Profiles after they die... Continue →

• KICKSTARTER: Dreams Really Do Come True

  
  • 13 Jul 2012
  • Advertising , Animation , Apps , Art , Arts , Collaborations , Creative Lab , crowdsourcing , Culture , Dance , Design , Fashion Design , Festivals , Film , Gaming , Graphic Art , Graphic Design , Infographics , Literature , Multi-Media , Music , news , Photographs , Photography , Publishing , Social Media , Uncategorized , Video , Viral , Web

  It’s a secret I have been carrying for almost 15 years. I have shared it with a few people. Some I was glad I told, others I regretted telling and feared they would exploit that knowledge for their ... Continue →

• GLYPHS ‘N ROCKS: DISCOVERING THE SPACE BETWEEN

  
  • 05 Jul 2012
  • Architecture , Art , Art History , Arts , Culture , Design , Enivronmentalism , Geometry , Graphic Art , Graphic Design , History , Infographics , Sacred Geometry , Science , Timelines , Uncategorized

  Beach on Pelee Island by Melissa Sexton During summer, time seems to move slower. Dogs and cats are stretched out in every cool surface they can find. Everywhere you smell lotion, sunshine and adventu... Continue →

• Dystopia & Dissidence — Ray Bradbury’s Vision More Relevant Than Ever

  
  • 25 Jun 2012
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  Ray Bradbury Ray Bradbury could not have imagined the internet back in the early 50s when he wrote Fahrenheit 451, but there are certainly lots of “virtual book burnings” going on these da... Continue →

• Is England Dreaming or Is It Just Me?

  
  • 05 Jun 2012
  • 2011 Gift Guide , Advertising , Animation , Apps , Architecture , Archives , Art , Art History , Arts , Avatars , Beat Poetry , China , Cinemagraphs , Collaborations , Creative Lab , Culture , Culture Jamming , Dance , Data , Data Mapping , Data Storage , Design , Emoticon , Enivronmentalism , Fashion Design , Festivals , Film , Flowcharts , Font , Gaming , Geometry , Google , Graffiti , Graphic Art , Graphic Design , Graphic Novels , Grunge Design , Halloween , History , Infographics , Interactive Infographics , Literature , Meme , Mid Century Modern , Multi-Media , Music , Music History , news , Photographs , Photography , Photoshop , Politics , Primitive Futurism , Product Design , Publishing , Sacred Geometry , Satire , Scandinavian , Science , Set Design , Social Equality , Social Media , Technical Manuals , Thematic Mapping , Timelines , Typography , Uncategorized , Video , Viral , Web , Year Of The Dragon

  Thoughts on Queen Elizabeth II’s Diamond Jubilee Why, when the subject of royalty or monarchy is mentioned, do the British bid adieu to every vestige of proportion, modesty, humour and restraint... Continue →

• Dirt ‘n Decadence

  
  • 28 May 2012
  • Architecture , Archives , Art , Art History , Collaborations , Culture , Design , Film , Graffiti , History , news , Photographs , Photography , Politics , Uncategorized , Video , Web

  DESIGN & DECAY IN DETROIT Michigan Central Station For all the jokes over the years about Detroit — being dangerous, abandoned and depressing — it has never lost its underground appeal... Continue →

• • 21 May 2012
  • Data , Data Mapping , Data Storage , Flowcharts , Graphic Art , Graphic Design , Infographics , news , Politics , Science , Social Equality , Thematic Mapping , Timelines , Uncategorized , Web

  Infographic Takes On Crime Nothing like the recent murder of Trayvon Martin to make us revisit our ideas about the geography of violence. This infographic was compiled using population statistics data... Continue →

• A New Telling: Mainstream Acceptance of Data Journalism

  
  • 10 May 2012
  • Animation , Culture , Data , Design , Enivronmentalism , Graphic Design , Infographics , Interactive Infographics , Multi-Media , news , Publishing , Social Media , Uncategorized , Video , Web

  All media outlets have embraced data journalism and either have infographic designers on staff, in-residence or have hired infographic design companies to create newsy infographics for them. Why? It&#... Continue →

• Book Design: Infoglyphs Staff Vote “The Giving Tree”

  
  • 04 May 2012
  • Animation , Archives , Art , Arts , Culture , Design , Enivronmentalism , Film , Graphic Art , Graphic Design , History , Music , Music History , Publishing , Uncategorized , Video

  Does that makes us … sensitive? Hey Girl … I loved The Giving Tree too. Check my tatt. So, it was unanimous that we all thought The Giving Tree was the best designed cover art for a book.... Continue →

• • 25 Apr 2012
  • Archives , Collaborations , Culture , Film , History , news , Politics , Science , Social Equality , Uncategorized

  A: A Woman After the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, American women with mathematical aptitudes were hired by the US military to test the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer — an earlier ... Continue →

• • 18 Apr 2012
  • Art , Arts , Collaborations , Culture , Design , Graphic Art , Graphic Design , Graphic Novels , Infographics , Uncategorized

  InfoGlyphs’ Staff Converge on Small Town: Town Never the Same Last weekend, InfoGlyph’s staff descended on basecamp in Meaford, Ontario, for a first-ever, full-on strategic planning session. T... Continue →

• Spring is in the Air, Animated IG & Google Art Project

  
  • 09 Apr 2012
  • Animation , Art , Art History , Arts , Design , Google , Graphic Art , Graphic Design , History , Infographics , Literature , Uncategorized , Video

  Learning about Spring Allergies through Infographics Ah, yes. It is that wonderful time of year again. Break out the hankies and the neti pot. Start the eye drops and the nasal sprays and the allergy... Continue →

• INDUSTRY NEWS: Taking it to the Street

  
  • 02 Apr 2012
  • Art , Arts , Collaborations , Culture , Design , Google , Graffiti , Graphic Art , Graphic Design , Infographics , Multi-Media , Photographs , Photography , Social Media , Uncategorized

  Taking it to the Street I Where did it come from? Who are graffiti artists? Well, don’t you know, I found an infographic on that! This inforgraphic was created by Daniel Feral as a tribute to MO... Continue →

• INDUSTRY NEWS: Geneticist + Artist = Human Centred Data Visualizations

  
  • 28 Mar 2012
  • Apps , Art , Arts , Collaborations , Culture , Data , Data Mapping , Data Storage , Design , Graphic Art , Graphic Design , Infographics , Interactive Infographics , Multi-Media , Science , Social Media , Web

  Spotlight on Jer Thorpe Like the DNA complex helix that wraps around itself to create our genetic code, Jer Thorpe codes software to create human-centred data visualizations. A former geneticist, Tho... Continue →

• INDUSTRY NEWS: This Revolution Will Not Be Televised

  
  • 07 Mar 2012
  • Culture , Data , Design , Flowcharts , Graphic Design , History , Infographics , Interactive Infographics , news , Photographs , Photography , Politics , Social Media , Thematic Mapping , Timelines , Uncategorized

  It Will Be Tweeted, Texted, Skyped, Blogged, Captured on Cell Phones, Shared through Social Networks and Graphically Visualized Wars and revolutions are messy events. If they are violent, the bloodsh... Continue →