With the elections still fresh in our minds, I am reminded of a clever infographic animation by Fraser Davidson, which is based on an excerpt from Bill Maher’s book The New New Rules: A Funny Look at How Everybody but Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass. Davidson, an accomplished UK motion designer, selected a particular Maher rant about football, socialism and politics as the foundation for his animation. Though he posted it earlier this year, it remains remarkably resonant and relevant.

I have to face my demons: I am an obsessive person. I clean absolutely everything on my desk before starting a new project. I shelve my books rigidly according to my own idiosyncratic system. I organize my fonts into endlessly parsed categories of style. Perhaps it’s not such unusual behavior for a designer. But it’s why I’m writing about Merel Brouns’s Personal Timeline. It’s a project that appeals to my own weird compulsions.

Information design that makes the complex clear is the motto of Wisconsin-based Funnel, a duo studio specializing in cool infographics, which borrow from graphic novels.

“We tackle the convoluted, thorny, problematic stuff because we love bringing order to chaos,” say Linden and Lori Wilson, founders of Funnel, Inc.