Think Studio designed the book One Million, by New Yorker editor Hendrik Hertzberg. The plan of the book is simple: two hundred pages; five thousand dots to a page. The result: one million dots.
Notes that correspond to occasional numbers point out unusual and informative historical, political, anatomical and sociological information that add up to help the concept hit home. The author wants the reader to actually see, perhaps for the first time ever, exactly one million of something. To keep the simple design lively, the value of the dots were varied so they twinkle and animate a bit.
Some Facts from the Book
7: Poems by Emily Dickinson published in her lifetime (out of 1,700 she wrote)
483: Americans killed in the Revolutionary War
14,592: U.S. deaths in Vietnam in 1968
87,082: Organic milk cows in 2005 (up from 12,897 in 1997)
90,000: MySpace accounts deleted by the site for belonging to registered sex offenders
153,424: Pounds of coffee Starbucks uses in a day
814,881: Residents of New York City who were born in a different state
911,340: Hours of television watched by U.S. households per month, from September 2007 to September 2008
974,731: To one, the odds against dying a nonviolent death, if you are a codfish