Map O’ The Day #218 – The Very Many Varieties Of Beer
Today’s MOTD is focused the varieties of beer. If you combine this with the hop infographic and flavor wheel, you will be a veritable beer expert in the making.
Today’s MOTD is focused the varieties of beer. If you combine this with the hop infographic and flavor wheel, you will be a veritable beer expert in the making.
Today’s MOTD comes from Benjamin Christine’s Scrap Book and is Monopoly with a social media theme. I think that the values of the various sites are well represented and it is a well designed and a great metaphor to remember the players and hierarchy.
Today’s MOTD, information provided from Medical Insurance.org, is a very fun infographic showing the different menu items that McDonalds offers across the world. Some of the more notable offerings I would be interested in trying were the Maharaja Mac, a burger made with lamb and chicken, the McTurco, turkey fried pita with 2 patties and a pepper sauce and then wash it all down with a beer that is available in Germany.
Today’s MOTD is a stunning example of how to take written instructions and turn them into a graphic depiction. The graphic shows the recipe for how to make pancakes, using very few words! These are the kinds of tools that can make cooking fun for children while stimulating a whole different sector of the brain.
My favorite part about the process is the ‘teaspoon’ of baking soda and the pinch of salt. This would look great printed out and hung in a diner or utilized as some sort of breakfast mat.
Today’s MOTD is an example of why to keep looking for interesting and unique infographics that have not been re-posted on every other site, albeit i did find this on reddit.com/r/homebrewing. This infographic comes from Zeke Shore an interaction, graphic, and motion designer currently living and working in NYC.
The graphic shows various varieties of hops and the flavors associated with them from the family of hops they come from. Also, the infographic shows the bitterness and IBU scale. This is a wonderful map that any brewing enthusiast would be happy to have hanging in their work/bottlling/storing area. Please visit Zeke’s webpage and contact him to talk about prices and sizes for a signed and numbered print. He will be making additions to this graphic and may want to wait until then to produce.
Today’s main MOTD is from the National Cattleman’s Beef Association and uses a blackboard technique to clearly illustrated what part of a cow different cuts of beef come from and what their recommended preparation for consumption is.
The second graphic is meant to be a supplement to the top graphic, this time using an actual carcass, to more accurately explain the butchering process.
The third graphic represents the average yearly consumption rates of beef in different countries, it is not a depiction of what parts of beef are consumed.
I pulled this image yesterday from a bigger infographic, before Digg got ahold of It (glad to see people really embracing infographics but it is making it hard to bring you fresher content, sorry if you have seen this before). I thought this was the best and most visually informative piece of the bigger post that I will not be linking to.
Today’s MOTD is from Forbes magazine circa 1942. I found a catalog of vintage Forbes infographics and will be sharing some of them with you to show the timelessness of visual information. This first vintage infographic is of Hiram Walker’s whiskey distillery and clearly shows all of the steps from corn kernel to alcohol. I am not a distiller myself, but would believe the process, as well as, the content of the message has also held up to the scrutiny of time.
Today’s MOTD comes from Mark Easton’s map of the week at www.bbc.co.uk (article here ) and shows where different styles of cheeses are produced in England.
If we pair this map, with Map O’ The Day #5 – French Breads and MOTD #38 – Italian Vino….you could construct some tasty combinations at your local specialty market!
Today’s MOTD comes to us from award-winning illustrator Shawn Braley. He created this double page infographic for Valley News and also developed it into a printed poster.
Check out more of his fantastic drawings and pictures at his blog, New England Illustrated.
Today’s MOTD was created by David McCandless who runs the website, www.visualizedthebook.com.
The graphic is a basic scatter plot chart, populated with icons instead of points. The x axis represents caffein in milligrams while the y is calories. The graphic also maps to how how much exercise is needed to work off the bulge.
Subtle mention to the color scheme of the graphic for being a coffee like, but i thought a little more could have been done.
Today’s MOTD is a lighthearted graphic explaining the steps it takes to make a grilled cheese sandwich.
The graphic was created by a TWADZ.com, Professional Design Solutions.
Because it’s a beautiful Holiday weekend and some readers may be in an atmosphere that supports playing jokes on family, friends and loved ones, I posted this graphic about how to make an exploding drink from one of my favorite periodicals, Wired Magazine.
It is a silly prank that is easily describable in 4 pictures. Inspired by the Mythbusters Mentos* and soda myth, this joke is great because it can be played on young and old, alcohol drinkers and non alcohol drinkers. Try to time it right so the person you are playing a joke on is standing on an easily cleanable surface. It wouldn’t be prudent to go into the den and have a conversation on your great grandmothers antique rug!
*Mentos must be peppermint flavor!
I’m sure more than one of you have found yourself in NYC, or any other major metropolis, with a hankering for a homemade tamale or a memorable T-shirt commemorating your visit, and found yourself searching for a quick and easy fix. Enter, the street vendor industry.
As the excellently designed infographic demonstrates, (author currently unknown), the street vendor industry has been a thriving sub-culture in this country for decades. Take the time to read through this to gain an understanding not only of the demographic and stylistic evolution of the street vendor industry, but also some suggestions on how to improve upon the hampered practices of the past.
Today’s MOTD is from www.thehops.org.
In the 1970s, Dr. Morten Meilgaard created the Beer Flavor Wheel. The wheel has 14 categories broken down into 44 flavors. The wheel was a way to standardize a language through which beer tasters can agree on a word-to-flavor correlation.
Dr. Morten’s wheel gave beer tasters a common vocabulary and caught on all over the world. It is now used as the standard reference by the European Brewery Convention, the American Society of Brewing Chemists, and the Master Brewers Association of the Americas.
