To that end, the graphic design firm Muller has created an awesome guide to the favored actors in the Coen orbit, which shows what they’ve been in through the years. There’s even a little tally on the left-hand margin, showing the awards that the Coens have won — six Oscars to date, as a matter of fact. Here’s to hoping for a couple more.
via Infographic of the Day: The Coen Brothers’ Menagerie of Actors | Co.Design.
A map of world’s coffee-drinking habits locates the global epicenter far from tropical coffee plantations, in Scandinavia, where coffee consumption is well above the global average is 2.9 pounds (1.3 kilograms) per year. Â While you might think of coffee as merely a good caffeinated drink, the seeds of the Coffea plant represent the second most important legally traded commodity, following oil, in terms of dollar value, writes Mark Pendergast in Uncommon Grounds.
via Map: Where Are the World’s Coffee Drinkers? – Food – GOOD.
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You don’t know Mark Coleran’s name, but you’ve seen his work. He’s the designer who creates the futuristic computer screens that characters in movies (like The Bourne Ultimatum, Children of Men, and Mission Impossible 3) use when saying things like “Enhance!” But now he’s the design director of Bonfire Labs, an agency who specifically hired him for his “fantasy user interface” (or FUI) skills.
via A Master of Sci-Fi Movie Gadgets Moves Over to the Real World | Co.Design.
The Chronicle of Higher Education has created a must-see interactive infographic showing college graduation rates (1940-2009) from across the country. The information that’s displayed is a thing of beauty, but more important is the accessibility of the data as you drill down by county to filter for race, income, and population density.
