We're sticklers for a nice piece of black and white print work; and this exacting piece by Peter Crnokrak of The Luxury of Protest is fantastic.
"A_B_ Peace & Terror etc. The Computational Aesthetics of Love & Hate" is a geopolitical survey of the 192 member states of the United Nations with regard to the quantitative degree to which each contributes to peace and terror in the world.
The project is a dual-sided poster on transparent sheets where the A side displays measures of peace, while the B side, displays measures of terror. For each of the A or B measures, the graph is divided into three rings (three separate indexes for peace and three separate indexes for terror) that are individual quantitative measures obtained from researchers working in the field of geopolitics.
The quantitative variation for the peace and terror measures is represented as variation in line thickness where a thin line equals low value, and a thick line represents high value.
The functional nature of the poster becomes poignantly relevant when one makes detailed comparisons across nations for the various measures - many of the results are quite surprising and stand in contrast to prevailing norms of collective national perception...
If you like it as much as we do, you can get one from Design Supremo.