I came across this interesting website from the news feed section of the Communication Arts' website. This is a great website: it is free and open for the public to browse as well as design, their goal is to make sense of our world through data and design. Because we had just wrapped out our typography portraits, this instantly caught my eye. Maywa Montenegro is the author and Rozina Vavetsi is the designer of the map below. While the article begins talking about a new language that was recently discovered, Koro, in India's northern most state, it then starts to discuss the globalization of language. The article is short and sweet, and not too scientific so anybody without an anthropology degree can understand easily. And it is pretty amazing that in this day and age when you think no stone has been unturned, people discover new languages.
I like how the Vavetsi's map is the first thing you see in the article, it draws the viewer in. The article follows and then there is a National Geographic video showing natives speaking Koro. Off to the right, is a side bar listing the other articles from this Maywa. The heading is clean and modern using a grey and bright yellow scheme. The text is also clean and modern, overall it is a simple, honest website which drives at this organizations message of providing unfiltered information using data and design.
The map is really amazing, you need to go to the website below and click on the full screen, the designer created a map of the word using only the names of languages found in the countries. Not only does this display how vast and varied our world is but how nice it is to see a map that is not comprised of lines designated territories and states--just words. If you zoom in on certain parts of the world like Turkey or the middle east, it is fascinating to see how many different languages are spoken in one small area.
Not only is this a really cool website but the design is amazing and allows the viewer to get a different perspective on the world instead of learning about it through statistics and figures.
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