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Design Category
Information design, 1995
Design firm
National Geographic Magazine (Washington, District of Columbia)
Collection
(1996) Information Graphics: Design of Understanding
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Biodiversity exists in the depths of exotic rain forests, but few people are aware of the presence of hidden realms in more familiar, mundane habitats. A wharf piling in the lower Chesapeake Bay teems with many life forms, which are graphically exposed here to show how each adapts to its own intertidal niche and how all are linked in a web of interrelationships.