Today’s MOTD was found in the AIGA Design Archive. It is a graphical representation of an orchestra pit and shows the spatial relation of each instrument section.
Credits
Design firm: The Boston Globe
Art director: Lynn Staley
Designer: Deborah Perugi
Artist: Roger Leyonmark*
Publication: The Boston Globe, October 22, 1981
*Corrected. Thanks for the feedback Deborah!
Today’s MOTD is a fun map showing the hot Hollywood locations of the rock and roll scene in the mid 1960′s.
Today’s MOTD is a look at the inside of a guitar modified with a Parsons-White Stingbender.
The B-Bender was invented in 1967 by musicians Gene Parsons and Clarence White of Nashville West and The Byrds. The device was originally called the Parsons/White Pull-String, later renamed the StringBender, and is now best known as the B-Bender. Early prototypes developed by Parsons (a machinist as well as a drummer) included multiple bending devices for the E, B, G and D strings, but guitarist White decided he preferred a single B string bender in the final design. The B string is bent up a full tone by pulling the guitar neck down. This puts pressure on the strap, which is attached to a spring-loaded lever at the base of the neck. The lever arm passes through the body of the guitar and is connected to the B string behind the bridge. White’s 1956 Telecaster with the original Pull-String is now owned and regularly played by Marty Stuart.
In 1973 Parsons started making and installing the Pull-String himself, and renamed it the StringBender. He eventually made as many as 2,000 custom installations for guitarists including Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin.
Today’s MOTD is a simple chart of the beats per minute and timing information for the Beatles song Yellow Submarine, on a blackboard design. Check out Mean Speed Music Review for more great Beatles information and visualizations!
Todays MOTD, while a bit morbid, is very informational. Created by Doggie Horner for the blog, Comic Vs. Audience, this graphic combines great information design principles (not using boxes around the bullet lists and effective use of white space, to name two), while providing a wide breadth of data around what influenced heavy metal band names.
Today’s MOTD is a chart of the average number of beats per minute in #1 hit songs from 1960-2009.
Today’s MOTD comes to us from Next Generation Power & Energy EU, and is an infographic questioning the band, U2′s commitment to the environment on their 360 tour.
Today’s MOTD comes to us from the City Paper of Minneapolis and is a comic map of Rock and Roll landmarks in the area.
Look closely, there are some very cool images and easter eggs hidden inside the map.
Today’s MOTD from http://mp34u.muzic.com/ is a beautiful illustration of the different ways people choose to download internet music.
The graphic begins taking you down the easiest and most available path, Pay Beach. For those who don’t want to pay for music or are looking for tracks that aren’t available you can continue on the road towards the MP3 Bridge passing by the Corporate Wasteland of those who have spent too much time at Pay Beach.
After the Bridge is the infamous, Legal Hump. The choice to download music illegally is on the user and we can see that on the other side of the mountain are lots of legal alternatives.
According to the graphic, the Muzic, MP34U and MP3Jackpot pyramid is the treasure at the end of the road. Whether or not that is accurate is beyond my knowledge of the subject, but feel free to check the sites out and tell me if they are worth it!
Today’s MOTD is a mind-map, created by Erie Lestrade, of metal music origins starting in the 1970′s and tracking to the year 2000.
He uses a very comprehensive list of bands from around the world to prove his paths are correct. My only wish was that the graphic was cleaner and that some lines were not going through text.
Today’s MOTD is in honor of the king of pop. It was created by Ethan Hein and was uploaded to some major social news sites.
It shows the relationship between Michael’s songs and the influences they have had on other artists.
Today’s MOTD comes to us from a great design resource, Dan Meth. It is a venn diagram showing topic trends in early Beach Boys songs. The major topics are Cars, Girls and Surf and it is fun to see the similar yet different song titles that emerge.
Today’s MOTD is a mind map about the different sounds inside the music genre ‘Electronic Dance’. The black background (down with the whiteboard!) and cool feeling colors show the relationships of the music very clearly.
Similar to a mindmapping exercise, the author of MOTD #58, Duff McDonald and Vanity Fair, examined central themes, words and messaging gleaned from Bob Dylan’s XM radio show to represent a snapshot into the mind of the legendary American folk artist.
An interesting categorization model that focused more on Dylan’s own lyrical stylings was used to present the findings; a method that draws emotive and familiar connections with anyone familiar with the musicians catalogue.
This methodology translates well into Information Mapping in general, in that, anytime a user can locate themselves within the artifact or material, even if that connection if merely a recollection of past affection for a particular element, the engagement has been magnified immeasurably within the user’s own experience.
Well worth a look through!
Today’s MOTD is a map of the fictitious land of Greendale from the album cover art for Neil Young’s Greendale. Illustrated by James Mazzeo, who also illustrated the cover of Young’s Zuma, the map illustrates the backdrop for the rock opera album, centered on the adventures and trials of the Green family.
Just as web 2.0 has morphed the liner notes of yesterday’s record into downloadable songbooks and bonus features that accompany the digital album, the Greendale map takes interactivity to a whole new level. The album has its very own website where you can scroll over the map to enlarge certain details relevant to the songs.
It is becoming increasingly popular to make use of technology to enhance the depth of information and degree of interactivity on once static visual information maps.