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Infographic examples, ca. 1920s

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Just to add some more. Some examples of Soviet era infographics (in Russian):

http://community.gidlipetsk.ru/blog/view/6786

I went to the London Transport Museum that chronicles the history of the city's mass transit system. It's chock-full of these types of posters from Transport for London, and also delves deeply into the design strategies throughout the different eras. It's worth a visit if you're ever in the area.

I particularly enjoyed the last infographic on temperature because it makes me appreciate air conditioning all the more. It says music halls reached 150 degrees and theaters 125 degrees. Can you imagine listening to a concert in that kind of heat?

I think the left side of the thermometer was the "excitement temperature" of the destination the Underground was taking you to. Fishing and museums were both sub-freezing, since they aren't high-excitement activities.

150 degrees Fahrenheit (65 C) would exceed the highest surface temperature ever recorded on Earth -- by a wide margin. I can't find a good reference at the moment, but I think 150F would be immediately fatal.

I think the infographic is humorously saying that you can find whatever level of excitement you want by taking the underground. Fishing is a boring 5 degrees, football gets you to body temperature, and music halls are a scorching 150.

Definitely not fatal. According to Wikipedia[1], the temperature in a sauna is "typically between 70 °C (158 °F) and 100 °C (212 °F)".

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sauna

The high end of that scale is a little low. My sauna is regularly at about 105°C (221°F), and 110/230 is the starting temperature in the World Sauna Championsips.

The traffic congestion one could easily be an ad from today.

I agree. It's the best IMO.

It's very Metro, isn't it?

The latest Windows Phone 7.5 even has the same aggressive red as the default background color: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsphone/en-US/features/default...

(Not trying to smear Microsoft as copycats. Their designers have been very open about their goals and inspirations.)

It is :)

http://www.treehugger.com/cars/amount-of-space-required-to-t...

Does anyone recognize these fonts? In particular the font of the first, as well as the main text of the last graphic?

They are quite beautiful.

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