Barcode Plantage is an interesting look at ordinary, everyday barcodes. Simply run your barcode through the application on their website and you will be presented with a great visualisation, showing where your product originated, the manufacturer and other tid bits of information.
Information Taking Shape has some great visualisations of common data by Christina Van Vleck. The newspaper cover stories (pictured above) are great.
The World as Flat Land provides a brilliantly insightful glimpse into the statistics of world happiness, censorship, immigration and more. It’s presented in an extremely clear yet novel way, by stacking countries with similar views on top of each other.
These maps of the internet by Chris Harrison are mesmerising. In a time when communication is at it’s easiest and most convenient it’s easy to forget about the underlying infrastructure that connects us all. These visualisations provide a sense of scale to the faceless networks that surround us in modern life.
