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Of All The People In All The World: Visual Mapping by Stan’s Cafe

I’ve been cruising design sites of late (strange obsession of stuff and increased interest in design in general) and I saw this on designcrush and had to share.

It’s not quite Chris Jordan but it’s certainly good! And what I love most is it also seems like a great exercise in statistics in a classroom or workshop (Jordan’s work is a bit too hard to try at home ;))

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Of All The People In All The World (UK) uses grains of rice to bring formally abstract statistics to startling and powerful life.

Each grain of rice = one person and you are invited to compare the one grain that is you to the millions that are not.

Over a period of days a team of performers carefully weigh out quantities of rice to represent a host of human statistics

- the populations of towns and cities
- the number of doctors, the number of soldiers
- the number of people born each day, the number who die
- all the people who have walked on the moon
- deaths in the holocaust

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The project has been running in a range of cities so be sure to check out the list on stan’s cafe
Images via their flickr page

PS Some design/homewares etc links I’m loving:
- Etsy.com
- Apartmenttherapy.com
- Coolhunting.com
- Design from a scandinavian perspective
Not to mention old faves like ohjoy! & thinkfeelstudio

PPS For a bit of a laugh you can look & listen to what I made at Wix last week – it should sound familiar

And read some of my blogs on TEDtalks here

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10 Responses to “Of All The People In All The World: Visual Mapping by Stan’s Cafe”

  1. Tonos para Celular Says:
    August 13th, 2009 at 12:12 am

    I realize a lot of what I’m reading lately has to do with the current financial crisis, but your post is another story :) thank you for sharing this!

  2. natalie Says:
    August 16th, 2009 at 3:30 pm

    “if twitter was 100 people” http://bit.ly/4qSEW6 – loving data visualized!!!!

  3. natalie Says:
    August 16th, 2009 at 3:31 pm

    http://gizmodo.com/5329972/beautiful-waveform-timeline-shows-music-sales-in-all-media-through-time

    and this – music sales visualized in wave form

    NYT

  4. natalie Says:
    August 16th, 2009 at 3:38 pm

    http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/

  5. Marcie Says:
    August 18th, 2009 at 1:04 am

    Love the look of your site – are you having fun with it? Keep up the good work and good luck with your site!

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  7. Matt Davidson Says:
    August 22nd, 2009 at 5:40 am

    I realize a lot of what I’m reading lately has to do with the current financial crisis, but your post is another story :) thank you for sharing this!

  8. Floost Says:
    August 24th, 2009 at 10:45 am

    I added your blog to bookmarks. And i’ll read your articles more often!

  9. Natalie Shell Says:
    August 24th, 2009 at 7:19 pm

    amd some more: http://www.thierryblancpain.com/pics/age_of_universe.png

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