Archiculture

via: Popsci

Head over to Popsci to find out about the Power symbol’s growing success in becoming the logo on NYC condoms, or how the Swedish campgrounds symbol became the Command logo, or how the At symbol started with sixth century monks. I love how nested and ingrained our history becomes in our language, symbols and especially buildings.

source: MacRumors

Here is a screenshot of the Mac Edition of Autocad.

via: Umbro (green lines are completed passes, blue triangles are shots, red dots are goals)

In a tribute to the World Cup semifinals starting today, here is a brilliant infographic representation of the game by Michael Deal with data from Opta. Click here to see a full graphic of all the group stage games. Round of 16 and quarterfinals are coming soon.

KAWS Museum Exhibit Opening from Paper Fortress on Vimeo.

Source: KanyeUnivercity

Another ridiculously beautiful information graphic from the folks over at Good’s Transparency series. Click on the image for the interactive version.

Source: Empty Kingdom

Some amazing images from concept artist, Bastien Grivet.

1968

1972 - Vignelli’s Classic

1979

1998

Drum roll please…

2010

via: NYtimes

The new subway maps have started going up throughout the city. The island of Manhattan continues to get fatter while Staten Island has been downsized. Other changes are  a deeper blue water, a greener and lighter land color, parks have turned a more olive shade of green, and the subway lines now have shadows.

It also seems like they’ve simplified or eliminated a lot the bus, rail and ferry information which I think is a shame. Not sure why in this age you would dumb down a transit map. I would prefer them to continue illustrating the diversify in modes of transit available. I guess it is visual overload to the tourists if they can’t cleverly design these layers of information to recede into the map.

source: Annyas

Annyas has put together and interactive website that shows the evolution of “The Ending” of Warner Bros. movies.  Definitely worth checking out.

source: NYTimes

Greendale, Neil Young’s 2003 concept album is now being released as a graphic novel.  The album was originally recorded with Crazy Horse and soon became a film.  The lyrics have been adapted into an American Fable with supernatural qualities and is being released through DC Comics.

source: AntiBP

A few graphic reactions to the current oil crisis we are dealing with.  Click here to see the rest.