Worldprocessor is an ongoing project by Ingo Günther, an artist who obviously fell in love with globes. Since 1988 he has produced more than 300 globes showing different types of information. He gatheres geosocial and scientific data from newspapers and NGOs and maps them onto standard 12-inch globes. The result is “part infographic, part networking diagram, part humanistic commentary”.

Without much explanation, let me I introduce Mr Tufte as one of the fathers of information design. His work, his collections of diagrams and rules for successful data visualization has been very influental. Check out his homepage and his posters and famous books, in which he shares his expertise in the analysis and critique of information graphics and statistics.