The results are not always what you would expect, and are dependent on a good image set from Flickr, but The Color Of is addictive and mesmerizing. Just try it.

Once weekly, GOOD Magazine posts an infographic, or a "transparency", visualizing everything from the amount of our national acreage controlled by major retail chains (below) to the length of time people spend on popular email clients. They have now created a flickr archive of them all.

Student Debt: GOOD and Futurefarmers look at the ballooning student debt in the United States.

Retail Store Space: The biggest retailer in the world covers an area larger than Manhattan. GOOD and Futurefarmers look at "the amazing amount of space occupied by a few ubiquitous chains."

Thanks for reading. See you next year!

Take pause and appreciate with me a moment of enormous visual power, created "accidentally-by-design" in the convergence of flickr and lunch-in-a-box.

Further proof that a simple framework can yield astonishing visual results, and of course that the world wouldn't start wobbling on its axis if we spent less time on kickin' web graphics and more time designing our plates...

Since they were acquired by Yahoo, Flickr has implemented a censorship scheme that is so poorly thought out, it’s offensive.

If you use Flickr, you are obligated to tag anything in your photostream which might be offensive. Later (at night, while you are sleeping, no doubt-- like the tooth fairy, but with uncompromising moral fiber), someone at Flickr will look at your account and verify that you have correctly tagged your offensive images. If you do not do this, or Flickr disagrees with your self-policing, your account is labeled as ‘unsafe’. Oh, and anyone else can decide to come along later and tag your images as offensive, too. Presumably, this could render you ‘unsafe’, as well.

I give them credit for making the whole scheme usable on their site, but the underlying logic is flawed. I would need a chart to graph the *numerous* ways this could potentially get under people's skin. Indeed, this is a no-win for Flickr.

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