Eye of the Storm
Wednesday, September 10th, 2008If information is power, the dissemination of information is the most powerful tools a designer or artist can wield. I’ll step down from the Obama-style opener and ask you to consider something most of us look at every day: weather maps. More specifically, hurricane trackers.
Since hurricanes Katrina and Rita, hurricane trackers have become much more than a news item. For most people in the southeastern part of the U.S., they’re very much tools of survival, often being updated faster than a news report can be delivered.