Worldmapper.org is a project that takes the map of our planet and distorts it based on various statistical data.
Here are a few that I found interesting.

Arms Exports 2003:

War Deaths 2002:

While the timeline on these doesn’t line up exactly, this trend has been happening for a long time. Looking at these two maps side by side, it’s easy to see that the United States and Europe are making a lot of weapons, and the rest of the world is buying them and using them to kill each other.

Toys Exports:

Toys Imports:

I knew we got a lot of cheap plastic crap from China and Korea, but these two images really put things into perspective.

Valuables Imports:

Bling bling suckas!

This project is about design at its core. Mixing art and science to find new ways of looking at or interacting with the world around us.