Posts Tagged ‘illustration’
Wednesday, December 9th, 2009
[Editor’s note: Beautiful map of a blue and red circulation system stretching across the United States with the heart located at Washington, D.C. Selected by a lefty advocacy group as part of their media campaign during the ongoing health care debate. Thanks Laris!]
Republished from The Washington Post. December 2, 2009
Public Option Please, a lefty advocacy group, set out to find a poster artist who could dramatize their argument for government-funded health care. Judges (including Arianna Huffington and Jesse Dylan) found not just a poster artist but a poster girl for their cause. Their winner, Amy Martin of Los Angeles, created her striking image of red and blue blood vessels coursing through a map of the United States when she was home sick with the flu, and a few weeks later, organizers said, lost her job and health insurance. “A healthy United States is dependent on healthy American citizens — which is why I presented America as a vulnerable living system.” She’ll spend her $1,000 winnings on insurance premiums, they said.
Continue reading at Public Option Please . . .
Tags: amy martin, health, health care, illustration, insurance, laris, los angeles
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Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
[Editor’s note: Saw this black and white illo with the Times opinion piece yesterday and thought it smartly done.]
Republished from the New York Times.
Tags: illustration, New York Times, nyt, palin, sarah, times
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Friday, September 11th, 2009
[Editor’s note: This membership solicitation from the Nature Conservancy creates an Americas globe out of the negative space in a field of “it’s not my problem, yet” text. Looks like a magazine ad, not sure where I scanned it from last month.]
Tags: ad, americas, globe, illustration, map, nature conservancy, negative space, problem, tag cloud
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Thursday, July 16th, 2009
[Editor’s note: This cover illustration from Matt Wuerker for Politico is a take on Steinberg’s classic illustrations for the New Yorker that show the mental map for politicians living in the U.S. capital, Washington, D.C. The lead article looks at the top 50 politicos to watch. Thanks Laris!]
Republished from Politico.
Given the name of this publication, we sometimes get asked a good question: What exactly is a politico? There are a lot of definitions that fit, but here’s one that seems to work well: A politico is a participant in and/or an especially avid devotee of the theater of politics.
There is no grander stage than the capital for this particular drama. And what is the main thing you do at the theater? You watch it, of course. And then you laugh or cry or yawn or boo. At the end, you applaud — whether out of admiration for the performance or gratitude that it is over.
This issue (the third special glossy that POLITICO has published this year) is devoted to 50 Politicos to Watch. In some cases, the people are on the watch list because they are on the rise — the kind of list people in Washington relish being on. But be careful what you wish for. Some politicos are interesting to watch because they are in the middle of one sticky mess or another.
But in every case, the names we compiled here — and, let’s be honest, the list is somewhat random — were identified by our reporters and editors as being characters in motion, in the middle of interesting plots.
Tags: argentina, beltway, canada, capital, capitol, dc, economist, illustration, k street, karklis, mark wuerker, mental map, new yorker, pacific ocean, pennsylvania ave, political art, politico, potomac, steinberg, virginia, washington, white house
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Tuesday, June 16th, 2009
[Editor’s note: The Economist continues their strong use of geographic-oriented photo editing (Canada) and illustration (Obama’s night table light as a glowing globe).]
Republished from The Economist.
Canada’s relations with the United States: Stop, border ahead
May 28th 2009 | OTTAWA. From The Economist print edition
New border controls and protectionist bills have dashed Canadians’ hopes that the change of occupant in the White House would mean warmer relations
Photo by Christinne Muschi
WHENEVER Canadians grow anxious about heightened security at the United States border—as they are now because of America’s new requirement, from June 1st, for passports or other approved identification to be shown at entry points—their news media invariably invoke the twin towns of Stanstead, Quebec, and Derby Line, Vermont. In these towns, the line that looks so neat on maps is a messy business, running through a factory, a combined library and opera house, and a number of homes. In some cases it lies between the bedroom and a morning cup of tea.
Continue reading at The Economist . . .
Lexington: Tough enough?
May 28th 2009. From The Economist print edition
Barack Obama must pass the telephone test
Illustration by KAL
FIFTEEN months ago, at the height of the battle for the Democratic nomination, Hillary Clinton unleashed her most powerful weapon, a telephone call. “It’s 3am and your children are safe and asleep,†a voice intoned. “But there’s a phone in the White House and it’s ringing. Something is happening in the world.†Barack Obama might be able to give a pretty speech. But was he “tested and ready to lead in a dangerous world�
The telephone has been ringing off the hook of late, as hostile governments tweak the new administration, to see what it is made of, and Republican politicians raise doubts about Mr Obama’s national-defence credentials. On Memorial Day North Korea tested a nuclear bomb, following up with a few ballistic missiles for good measure. (The North Koreans were kind enough to give the administration a heads-up, in case the Mr Magoos of the intelligence establishment missed the fireworks.) On May 21st Dick Cheney delivered a televised speech accusing the administration of unravelling “some of the very policies that have kept our people safe since 9/11â€. The day before that, the Iranians tested long-range missiles.
Continue reading at The Economist . . .
Tags: border, canada, christinne muschi, economist, hillary clinton, illustration, kal, north korea, obama, photo, united states, us, white house
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Tuesday, May 19th, 2009
[Editor’s note: “Detail from an illustration in which a fanciful map illustrates the current fragmentation of the West Bank. Areas currently under the control of the Palestinian Authority are represented as islands, divided by areas under Israeli control, represented by the sea”. Image by Julien Bousac/Le Monde diplomatique. Thanks Kellee!]
Republished from the New York Times.
May 7, 2009, 8:02 am
By Robert Mackey
This week, leading Israeli, Palestinian and American officials have agreed that the creation of a Palestinian state on territory in the West Bank and Gaza is essential to peace in the Middle East. But spend any time looking at a map of the West Bank as it is today, or with any of the many different proposals for how that map might be redrawn to accommodate the aspirations of both Israelis and Palestinians, and it becomes clear why any sensible mapmaker might choose to steer well clear of the challenge of drawing up that state.
Continue reading at the New York Times . . .
Tags: fanciful map, illustration, israel, jerusalem, julien bousac, le monde, nyt, paestinian, ramallah, robert mackey, times, west bank
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Tuesday, May 5th, 2009
[Editor’s note: This week’s Economist print edition features several geography themed illustrations, including KAL’s take on the H1N1 swine flu situation.]
Republished from The Economist.
April 30, 2009
Cover Artwor: The Pandemic Threat
Illustration by KAL
The Berlusconisation of Italy
Illustration by Peter Schrank
Australia’s Chinese entanglement
Illustration by M. Morgenstern
A healthy development: Taiwan and the WHO
Illustration by Claudio Munoz
Tags: Australia, berlusconi, china, chinese, economist, flu, h1n1, illustration, italy, taiwan, who
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Monday, March 30th, 2009
[Editor’s note: “Illustration by Jon Berkeley with apologies to Steinberg and The New Yorker”. Map illustration shows China’s world view / mental map with Tiananmen Square central, the US in the distance, and Europe but a spec on the horizon. This mental map is a good example of a network topology based projection.]
Republished from the March 21st, 2009 print edition of The Economist.
And how the world should see China
IT IS an ill wind that blows no one any good. For many in China even the buffeting by the gale that has hit the global economy has a bracing message. The rise of China over the past three decades has been astonishing. But it has lacked the one feature it needed fully to satisfy the ultranationalist fringe: an accompanying decline of the West. Now capitalism is in a funk in its heartlands. Europe and Japan, embroiled in the deepest post-war recession, are barely worth consideration as rivals. America, the superpower, has passed its peak. Although in public China’s leaders eschew triumphalism, there is a sense in Beijing that the reassertion of the Middle Kingdom’s global ascendancy is at hand (see article).
China’s prime minister, Wen Jiabao, no longer sticks to the script that China is a humble player in world affairs that wants to focus on its own economic development. He talks of China as a “great power†and worries about America’s profligate spending endangering his $1 trillion nest egg there. Incautious remarks by the new American treasury secretary about China manipulating its currency were dismissed as ridiculous; a duly penitent Hillary Clinton was welcomed in Beijing, but as an equal. This month saw an apparent attempt to engineer a low-level naval confrontation with an American spy ship in the South China Sea. Yet at least the Americans get noticed. Europe, that speck on the horizon, is ignored: an EU summit was cancelled and France is still blacklisted because Nicolas Sarkozy dared to meet the Dalai Lama.
Continue reading at The Economist . . .
Tags: art, beijing, china, clinton, illustration, jon berkeley, map, mental map, middle kingdom, network topology, new yorker, steinberg, superpower, topology, wen jiabao
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