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Last night, while researching a graphic strategy for an architectural competition I am working on, I had the pleasure of stumbling across the work of Catalogtree. I spent a good 90 minutes "infographic rubbernecking" at the fantastic portfolio of this Arnhem, NL based graphic design firm. Their studio has been active since 2000 and seems engaged on numerous fronts: layout, branding, web design, visualization, as well as teaching and exhibiting.

The graphics above are from a suite of diagrams prepared for the April 2007 issue of Architect Magazine which visualizes the buzz around top shelf American architecture firms. Data backing up this work includes American Institute of Architects awards, appearances in the news and profitability. The resulting matrix of images yields something akin to an A-List architectural annual report.

The graphic above is from a series of images prepared for a text entitled Werken aan de naoorlogse stad, a book about a research fellowship between 2002 and 2006. Catalogtree developed geographical analysis, an index and developed a typeface for this project.

I highly recommend scanning this firm's body of work as it is one of the better web portfolios I have seen in quite a while. In addition to the projects above, work that really caught my eye includes Year in Ideas, It is Not Going to Stop, the web presence of Katharina Grosse and the VNEC posters (viewable in their 2005 folio).