Chad Hagen. The cause of my mental gymnastics by trying to interpret the term, “nonsensical infographics.” Good grief.

You may be thinking, Royksopp is so old school Miss Apples and Owls. Even the Geico lizard is up on them already. Yes, this is true. However, a recent discovery of their video and their use of infographics for the video has altered my world. I’m in the datasphere and I can’t get out. (nor do I want to.)

via YouTube

He’s become a household name in infographics and well deserved at that. Music critic in graph form, Andrew Kuo makes brilliant charts and graphs of most often, concerts he’s attended. You can find his work in The New York Times as well as his blog, appropriately named, Emo + Beer = Busted Career.

Whenever you’re on vacation, especially in southeast Asia, finding a bathroom can be an adventure. That combined with spicy foods, Chang beer and sketchy water, you can imagine my relief when I ran into this. I was surprised to see many different variations of bathroom symbols during my travels, but this was my favorite. Gets me thinking, what would I do if I were to design bathroom signage. Hmmmmmmm.

On our way back to the States, we had a lay-over in the brand spankin’ new Terminal 5 at London’s Heathrow Airport. Now after the Naomi Campbell incident occurring just a few days before, I was hoping operations were running smoother. Eh. Wishful thinking.

All lost luggage and glitches aside, few can deny its architectural beauty that uses more glass than one can even fathom. Infographics galore, however I am a critic of the use of silhouettes while the official airport signage is in black and yellow. I personally really liked the interior of the restrooms that used a dark wood contrasted with silver and its super high powered hand dryers. Although our lay over was a good 2 hours, I could of stayed there are about 3 more.

(side note: yes, 6 of the 19 passengers in our group lost their luggage, of those, 2 got their luggage lost on the way there AND back. oh and did I mention we sat in the airplane for nearly 2 hours before even leaving the runway? ah, the joys of traveling.)