Some of these are really good, clever and interesting. The what makes good info design by David Mccandless at informationisbeautiful.net controversial venn diagram usage which as I mentioned is good for a beginner.
Infographic Typography
In 1989 Erik and Joan Spiekermann signed contracts with leading type foundries, packed their small office with floppy disks full of fonts, and started taking phone orders.
FontShop became the first independent retailer of digital type. Twenty years later we’re still stocking the best fonts (though the number has grown and the medium has changed) and still answering phones.
Its a great clean, clear and bold infographic sectioning off different infographic styles. Really beautiful, I'm always wanting to connect the beauty and functionality of type with information graphics. Reminds me of Nicholas Feltrons work self-mapping.html (update: from armina.thesis blog, it is by N.Feltron)
See also: NB: Studio - london-kerning.html
from: http://www.fontshop.com/20years/
found: http://www.datavisualization.ch/showcases/typography-meets-infographics
How do visualisations enhance the communication of data?
Finished my essay into how graphic design can enhance communication in data visualisation & information graphics: visualisationmagazine.com/dissertation.htm "graphic design ‘sorts and differentiates, it informs, it helps to shape how we feel, see the world’" (Newark, 2002, p. 6) I look into areas such as (please note these intermix with each other): a. Mind and Vision b. Communication c. Perception and Reality d. Semiotics e. Graphics Within this paper I explore the creative and innovative design techniques for mapping information to aid thinking, understanding, comprehension and reasoning. I summarized the key points into guidelines for the at-a-glance findings. "it may be possible to utilise symmetry and geometry to aid vision when perceiving a visualisation to understand data" (Wood and Keller, 1996, p 256)
This consideration of the way the map designer represents the world is not just associated with that of geographic cartograms but also with the way the designer visualises complex data. "if the designer retained 100% truth, they would no longer be mapping, representing aspects of geographic space, it would be entirely realisitic, the territory"
Read more: visualisationmagazine.com/dissertation.htm.
Please discuss, comment, criticize, debate, enjoy! Guidelines for when designing visualisations | Opinion? Discuss, share here in Forum | See Dissertation Proposal
I am pleased as this means I have passed my MA Contemporary Arts Practice at York St John University investigating data visualisation, graphic design, information mapping. Read more background about me. Dont worry, I will still be blogging, collating and compiling the magazines. See more projects developed from my studies: visualisation magazine.com
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remap - visual complexity data mine by bestario
Excellent interactive way to browse through the projects with bestario's semantic search engine. . tags can be clicked at the bottom to present a new visual array very quickly . http://bestiario.org/research/remap/ . . remap - visual complexity data mine by bestario Originally uploaded by visual think map . mining: http://visualcomplexity.com .
Graphic Presentation Book by W. Cope Brinton
Some pages from Willard Cope Brinton's second book
(1939). The whole book can be downloaded (in a worse resolution) for free from www.archive.org/details/graphicpresentat00brinrich
This is is just like http://telegeography.com/products/map_traffic/index.php
Global Internet Traffic Map 2008
set on Flickr from Prof.
Michael Stoll
http://tinyurl.com/mgy2bv
(~526 pg) Read
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(32 MB) PDF
(26 MB) B/W
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All Files: HTTP
the whole book can be downloaded here
http://tinyurl.com/czkjj6
found at armina's brilliant blog. http://thesis.armina.info/node/147
What makes an information graphic beautiful?
http://tinyurl.com/databeauty
note, i have yet to get my hands on Beautiful Data book nor (shamefully as a graphic designer) have i had chance to read Data Flow, although a friend was trying to get a hold of it for me. I managed to read Tufte's Beautiful Evidence book.
I read Brad Paleys comments in Creative Review Mar 08 that he thought it came from 'the accurate and comfortable representation of data' (centaur publications)
I have read Vande Moere and Lau's examinings of aesthetics in data visaulisation with their measures determining a circular sunburst style to be most beautiful.
Is it symmetry, balance in design?
Colour Harmony?
Simplicity?
Font Style?
please share your thoughts/readings. quote for the books above if you have read them, please, review the books if you read them and post here. I am finally getting round to writing up my research for my thesis. Your thoughts will be greatly appreciated.
Yuri Engelhardt’s critical review of Edward Tufte’s Beautiful Evidencehttp://yuriweb.com/tufte/
Lau A. and Vande Moere A. (2007), “Towards a Model of Information Aesthetic Visualization”, IEEE International Conference on Information Visualisation (IV’07), IEEE, Zurich , Switzerland, pp. 87-92.http://web.arch.usyd.edu.au/~andrew/publications/iv07.pdf
Cawthon N. and Vande Moere A. (2007), “The Effect of Aesthetic on the Usability of Data Visualization”, IEEE International Conference on Information Visualisation (IV’07), IEEE, Zurich , Switzerland, pp. 637-648http://web.arch.usyd.edu.au/~andrew/publications/iv07b.pdf
quite the hoard at http://web.arch.usyd.edu.au/~andrew/
http://www.informationesthetics.org/node/28
http://www.informationesthetics.org/node/27
Photo Manipulations By Erik Johansson
punched face by-erik-johansson / coffee world map by erik-johansson
Wonderful manipulations in photoshop, go through the slides. It does challenge me to think, 'ok so he cut that out, masked over this, layered....' but very tidly done and wonderful to see. Below is one i had seen =, maybe by erik, who knows, but looked good. Face punched, face sucked.
Wonderful manipulations in photoshop, go through the slides. It does challenge me to think, 'ok so he cut that out, masked over this, layered....' but very tidly done and wonderful to see. Below is one i had seen =, maybe by erik, who knows, but looked good. Face punched, face sucked.
Bizarre Infographic
In UK and on BBC three there is a program called bizarre ER, I saw these great informative little infographic animations with a soupson of humour & blood.
History of Graphic Design
Time, Space & Activity
Olga surawski's website is clean and clear, and in her infographics section i believe her visual info biking visualisation has had quite a bit of publicity but i would like to see this one in more detail as it looks to be quite an innovative, creative, well hand made collage effect? but other life maps are no less creative and innovative life maps.
i wonder what data variables have been included? message her here Olga Surawska.
she her porfolio here: www.olgasurawska.com