Jerusalem on the 6th century Madaba Map

Intel 4004 CPU (Ted Hoff, Stanley Mazor, Masatoshi Shima, Federico Faggin, Philip Tai, and Wayne Pickette, 1971)

via 100 Diagrams That Changed the World | Brain Pickings

Maps Before Maps (1000-1300 AD)

Color wheel designed by Goethe in 1809, visualizing his seminal Theory of Colours

“Speed” by Alfred Leete for London Underground (1915)

via Creative Review

Cartography of Time: A Visual History of the Timeline

via Brain Pickings

Visual Storytelling from Gestalten
A new generation of designers, illustrators, data journalists, and graphic editors is addressing this challenge head on. They are expanding the creative scope of existing techniques in visual storytelling—using graphic design, infographics, illustration, and photography to convey information in the most elegant, entertaining, and informative way. The main idea behind visual storytelling is to take familiar image contexts and use them in a new way. By penetrating meaning and creating associations, abstract correlations can be visualized in a manner that is both easy to understand and aesthetically innovative. Today, visual storytelling is being used intensively in newspapers, magazines, websites, advertising, business reports, and museums.

http://shop.gestalten.com/visual-storytelling

Costantinopoli as seen on an illustrated map included in the

“Liber Insularium Archipelagi” by Cristoforo Buondelmonte

via Diogenes99

Tour de France by Fernando Suárez

Nice post about vintage infographics on Information is Beautiful

Ten Great Years by Maxim Dalton

via thisisnthappiness

The Complete Collection: Gamepads 1979-2010 (via Listentothebit)

The Rock’n’Roll Metro Map is now available here as a mini poster.

Better view of the map here