Tag: infotastic

  • Infographic humour

    Sometimes it’s good to make fun. It can’t all be healthcare plans, budget spends and depressing statistics you know. Left:  Anatomy of an Infographic (via Doobybrain.com) especially amusing when you compare with the producers of these types of infographic: Google Facts & Figures, Film Industry by the Numbers Right:  My Way by Christoph Niemann (via:…

  • Infographic Inspiration

    Couple of great infographic inspiration discoveries Left: InfoGraphic Designs: Overview, Examples and Best Practice (via InstantShift) Right:  30 Examples of Creative Infography (via: Designer Daily, found via Optimal Usability Newsletter – Cool Stuff)

  • NY Times Infographic of US Budget Spend

    Source: View the interactive version I love this piece of information design! On first glance I thought it was the same as Billion Pound-O-Gram by David McCandles which I like for it’s simplicity and everything in front of you, but i love the interactivity of the Obama Budget graphic. You can look at the whole…

  • Presentation (not .ppt) about Data Vis, Info Des, Info Graphic et al

    via Fast Company 5 minutes of your time for a relatively snappy and engaging view about the power of the visual by Alex Lundry. This is a perfect case for the designers job to understand, filter, translate so that users have the power for knowledge development in their hands (eyes and brains) to navigate through…

  • Victorian information design par excellence

    Great collection of Victorian charts and graphics at BibliOdyssey. Also see Minard’s cartography and Flo Nightingales ‘Coxcombs’

  • Lord of the Rings and Napolean interactive marches

    Top: Charles Joseph Minard’s depiction of Napolean’s losses during his ill-fated march in Russia Bottom: Randall Munroe’s (xkcd) depiction of Wizards, Men, Hobbits, Ents, Elves, Orcs and Dwarves adventure-filled march in Middle Earth.