Editorial note: This publication and Quirky Cotton Collective share an owner. This is not an independent review. The shirt prints four words and a direction. TWEEDLE DEE sits on the upper line. I’M WITH DUM sits below it. A left-pointing…
The Composition Notebook Shirt: A Chart Autopsy of a Costume
Editorial note: This publication and Quirky Cotton Collective share an owner. The shirt is a rectangle. That is the first thing to notice, and it is the thing most people miss. A black-and-white speckled field fills the chest, a dark…
The Root Vegetable Diagram: Reading the Two Meanings of ‘Root’ in a Garden Shirt
Four root vegetables smile back from the shirt: a carrot, a radish, a beet, and an onion. Their roots are visible in the soil. Around them, in a ring of type, runs the line LET’S ROOT FOR EACH OTHER AND…
Fifty States Without a Tangle: Small Multiples vs. the Spaghetti Line Chart
A fifty-state time series arrives in the newsroom as a single panel with fifty lines. The reader is asked to rank states at a moment, follow one state across years, and perceive the shape of the distribution — all from…
The Turnout Denominator Problem: Voting-Eligible vs. Voting-Age Population in the Rates You Chart
A turnout rate is a fraction. The numerator is a count of ballots. The denominator is a population. When the two are mismatched, the rate is wrong, and the chart that carries it is wrong in a way that looks…