Monday infographic: the world as a village of 100

We're all pretty familiar with these 'If the world had 100 people' diagrams. What makes this one a little different is that it is a) beautifully designed and b) a little more detailed.

Done by Toby Ng Design, they are an international design-award winning set of graphics, now being turned into posters, postcards and a book.

Some of the stats are unsurprising,such as those relating to nationality and gender. These were a little more left-field and surprising to me at least:

And some are just plain clever.

This is Toby Ng Design's webpage, with all 20 graphics. You should take the time to check them out.


All images are the property of Toby Ng, taken from his website. No copyright or reporduction infringement intended.

Our amazing world

This is just a really cool info graphic. I can’t post the image itself in this blog because it’s just too damn long. This charts the Earth’s highest to lowest point with various human-made and natural markers in between. Some of them really surprised me; like just how high up some cities are, how deep a sperm whale swims and how deep the Deepwater Horizon drill penetrates. All sounds obvious, but somehow the graphic really hit it home.