“People For Smarter Cities” (by Ogilvy Paris). A rare instance where the ad demonstrates its point.
(via Slate Magazine)
A map of every street, town, and city Bob Dylan has ever sung about.
A picture of Earth through time, via Google. You had me at satellite and time lapse.
(via Co.Exist)
A road built out of solar panels. At three times the cost of asphalt, the price seems a bit high for a transportation system that already can’t keep up with maintenance. But, interesting idea.
A visually engaging and incredibly depressing view of falling sea ice volume (i.e. The Arctic Death Spiral).
(Source: thinkprogress.org)
Income inequality on the New York subway.
…if the borough of Manhattan were a country, the income gap between the richest twenty per cent and the poorest twenty per cent would be on par with countries like Sierra Leone, Namibia, and Lesotho.
(via The New Yorker)
(via PSFK)
This advertising guy can’t resist. Old meets new with the latest Mad Men poster.
A 75-year-old British illustrator has created the design for a Mad Men poster to advertise the new season. Brian Sanders is an original 1960s ad man who has drawn many editorial and advertising illustrations in British publications, and also worked for Stanley Kubrick on the set of 2001: A Space Odyssey, illustrating scenes from the filming.
(via Grist)
This bike went 127 miles per hour.
