it's Christmas Eve but it's also the 16 year anniversary of the time an art historian for the Hungarian National Gallery spotted a long lost painting while watching Stuart Little with his 3-year-old daughter, recognizing it in the movie set

has anyone done an interesting mergers timeline of Hollywood studios a la HistoryShots?

"this could have been slop, but it's not" is rapidly becoming a surefire signifier of premium-ness

Amazing results in New York remind me how disappointing it is that congestion pricing efforts have stalled in San Francisco. With congestion pricing, Muni service could be robustly funded, transit ridership would climb, and traffic through much of the Bay Area would significantly decrease.

A guy flew a glider from Nevada all the way to freaking Kansas on Friday 12 hours and 1200 miles in the air with no engine. Dudes rock

Christmas #mapsinthewild TV ad. For laser measured rubber car mats if you're interested.

Michael George Haddad for The Economist

Perozzo rides again! See it in action at charts.infowetrust.com

Here's a quilt of Volume 4 of the Epstein document dump. Gives you a 10,000 foot view of the redactions. that's 2,704 docs.

EAT CHARTS FOR BREAKFAST Joseph Priestley, 1770

here are some surprisingly complicated charts in case anyone is interested

Some inspiration for your holiday baking 🧑‍🍳 🍪 www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/05/dr-e...

A rare yellow version of the ‘Jigsaw Decisions’ artwork!

For all dedicated to craft and advancing our understanding of reality, 2025 wasn’t the most harmonious trip around the sun. Yet we stayed productive and strove to make things better. My top 5 essays according to my own capricious whim (and some studio notes): www.chartography.net/p/curiosity-...

my go-to for new parents is homemade frozen breakfast burritos

EAT CHARTS FOR BREAKFAST Michael G. Mulhall, 1885

broke and made art

EAT CHARTS FOR BREAKFAST W. Sanford Evans, 1916

Love a book that hooks me with the first line. Octavia Butler let’s go!

happy colors spotted at SFMoMA today: KAWS, Alexander Calder, Jasper Johns, Charles Howard

The time is nigh if you want to gift information-graphic prints and books at generous discounts + free 🇺🇸 shipping. 🛍️ visionarypress.com

Thrilled to return to the Nightingale Museum, this time virtually, to present: "God’s Revenge Upon Murder: Florence Nightingale’s Mortality and Health Diagrams" Thursday 29th January. Register to watch here: www.florence-nightingale.co.uk/free-zoom-go...

Christmas edition of Cabinet of Infographic Curiosities: 12 unique dataviz and maps from Australia, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Italy, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Spain and Switzerland.

Evening #map doodle: showing cities in the 13 original states that have populations comparable to the whole colony's estimated pop during the Revolution. I had to mix & match both city-limit pop and metro pop to get numbers that sorta lined up. 1780 Data: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

EAT CHARTS FOR BREAKFAST Florence Lipsky, 1999

I don't usually work in color, but when I do, it's to figure out something difficult... Final pg of chapter in progress (all braiding borders are panels! plus references I'm using to figure this out - braiding 3 & 4s, plus braiding from an earlier comic & one of my syllabi! #Nostos #Unflattening 2

This is really good work.

"a rough look at when the Vibecession started, showing the divergence between sentiment and economic data. Real disposable income recovered and kept rising after the pandemic shock, returning to trend. But sentiment never came back."— @kyla.bsky.social's kyla.substack.com/p/everyone-i...

EAT CHARTS FOR BREAKFAST U.S. Treasury Dept., 1897

Reminds us of the neon sign paintings by our friend Jim Parkinson who passed away earlier this year.

Gorgeous biomes map from @infowetrust.com mapoftheweek.substack.com/p/biomes-for... #MapoftheWeek

splendid paintings & drawings (not photographs!) by Eric Nash that @letterformarchive.org would appreciate www.ericnashart.com

#TodayinHistory #dataviz #Onthisday #OTD 📊 🎂Dec 10, 1882 Otto Neurath born in Vienna, Austria 🇦🇹 1924: Museum of Social Statistical Graphics and the ISOTYPE system, a method of showing social, technological, biological, and historical connections in pictorial form

The defensive distrust we developed toward unknown callers and unsolicited emails has now seeped to the images and videos we see.

There’s a secret language beneath your favorite movies, musicals, and even video games. We visualized every motif in Wicked, Hamilton, and Les Mis to show how tiny musical ideas can build entire emotional worlds. 🔗: pudding.cool/2025/12/moti...

EAT CHARTS FOR BREAKFAST Luigi Perozzo, 1881

THIS IS MY HISTORIC 🇺🇸 INCOME CHART. THERE ARE MANY LIKE IT BUT THIS ONE’S MINE. MY CHART IS MY BEST FRIEND. IT IS MY LIFE. I MUST MASTER IT AS I MUST MASTER MY LIFE. WITHOUT ME, MY CHART IS USELESS. WITHOUT MY CHART, I AM USELESS.

"The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something, and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy, and religion, — all in one." John Ruskin, 1856

#30DayMapChallenge | Day 22 Natural Earth Based on my earlier #chromostereopsis globe, I made another #stereogram centered on the Western Hemisphere. Use the magic-eye parallel view at phone-screen size to see the 3D effect. It can be very tough, so don't force it since it may strain your eyes🫨

"The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something, and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy, and religion, — all in one." John Ruskin, 1856

#MSH45 | Watercolors One of the most powerful “before and afters” of Mount St. Helens isn’t a photo at all, it’s this watercolor. Legendary PNW mountaineer Dee Molenaar painted the graceful pre-1980 cone and Spirit Lake basin alongside the torn-open crater and devastated landscape that followed.

THIS IS MY HISTORIC 🇺🇸 INCOME CHART. THERE ARE MANY LIKE IT BUT THIS ONE’S MINE. MY CHART IS MY BEST FRIEND. IT IS MY LIFE. I MUST MASTER IT AS I MUST MASTER MY LIFE. WITHOUT ME, MY CHART IS USELESS. WITHOUT MY CHART, I AM USELESS.

This is incredible.

Chad Hagen's nonsensical infographics more: chadhagen.com/nonsensical-...

"an ideal of creative collaboration: positive enthusiasm while engaging with the nitty-gritty." How @rsimmon.bsky.social and I made Earth Biomes: www.chartography.net/p/the-living...

Pierre-Emmanuel Lyet’s “Christmas Avenue”

#TodayinHistory #dataviz #Onthisday #OTD 📊 🎂Dec 8, 1828 Émile Levasseur born in Paris, France 🇫🇷 In the time of Minard, Guerry, Wm Farr & Flo Nightingale, Levasseur was the 💯 ambassador 1885: Comprehensive review of all available statistical graphics presented to the Statistical Society of London

"The loveliest trilinear plot ever seen."— @datavisfriendly.bsky.social visionarypress.com/products/foo...

Tomorrow, @rsimmon.bsky.social and I show how we turned GEBCO and WWF data into Earth Biomes, one of the inaugural Maps For Kids posters. 👀 see the poster visionarypress.com/products/ear... 🗞️ get our design essay first by subscribing to my information-design newsletter: chartography.net

I wrote "none to scale" as it's impossible to draw anything on solar system scale & fit in same frame in a meaningful way. Saturn wouldn't have had a ring in final panels, but feared it'd be confusing. Issue of scale brilliantly demonstrated by @misterjworth.bsky.social joshworth.com/dev/pixelspa...