A while ago, I introduced you to a young Designer and Mechanical Engineer named Julia Padvoiskis. One of Julia’s passions is explaining things simply and clearly through images. As such, her and I have decided to experiment with a new Gondola Project feature: The Infograph. We’re calling it the Cablegraph.
Every week or so, Julia’s going to put together a new one helping to explain, describe or enlighten another concept, feature or stat about cable transit around the world. As this is a new idea for us, please give us your comments so we can improve on them in the future. Or, if there’s a specific idea you want cablegraphed (let’s just pretend that’s a word), send us those as well.
Here’s the first one:
The diameter of a rope.
Source: Peak 2 Peak homepage.
Creative Commons background image by Nicki Varkevisser via flickr.
2 Comments
It’s an interesting idea, but over elaborate I think, for the simple information it conveys. If anything it could be improved by showing the thickness of the ropes with actual end on photos of rope segments or cross sections of the strand structure, rather then obtuse coloured circles.
Erik,
I like that. Thanks for the response!