Dedicated to featuring the visual beauty of happy marriages between art and data, Infosthetics put out a call to its readers to come up with their best graphical representations of a set of data of their choice. The only catch was they had to construct it out of paper. Charlene Lam of Umeå, Sweden won for her submission called ‘Petals’. Her inspiration came from both strips of paper discarded next to a paper trimmer and, because of her extreme northern latitude location, a yearning for sunlight.
Our winter days are short and summer days are long. Using the actual and [...]