Well we have made it to the weekend. And so it is the time to look at the area of men’s genitalia.
This week on baseball Twitter the following graphic made the rounds. The graphic itself claims to be from the Times—the original, not the New York version for my American audience—though I have been unable to verify that. On the other hand why would someone fake that part of the graphic?
It presumably supports an article about a quasi-doping scandal in men’s skiing wherein men inject themselves with hyaluronic acid, which makes…things…larger, which in turn requires larger suits, which creates more surface area to support higher flying.
Graphically, I really like this piece. Black, white, and grey anchor the illustrations of the skiier. No colour, no real life photography, no branding exists to add superfluous visual information to the graphic. A simplified grey shape with black outlines keys the reader into the fact he or she is looking at, well, a ski jumper. The designer lets the orange do the talking, highlighting just where the acid does it work. Then below the skier two orange arrows highlight the effect of the increased…surface area.
But should I really have guessed its London provenance? I mean the Landrover graphic at the bottom? Bloody obvious.
Initially I was still going to tag this as a just for fun post, owing solely to the subject matter. But despite the comedic value of this discourse on the eve of the Olympics, this is a serious article (I presume) with a serious graphic.
Happy weekend, all.
Credit for the piece goes to the Times’ graphic department.