Visualizing Statistics
Penguin September 11th, 2008
This is an amazing body of work, visualizing statistics. I especially appreciate the meta-ness of making a larger image based on the smaller ones, such as the Barbie Dolls below.
Running the Numbers looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans (thirty seconds of can consumption) and so on. My hope is that images representing these quantities might have a different effect than the raw numbers alone, such as we find daily in articles and books.
Cans Seurat
Depicts 106,000 aluminum cans, the number used in the US every thirty seconds.
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