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.
100 of the best data visualisations / infographics
I wanted to compile a nice square thumbnailing of the different creative and innovative techniques to the visualisation of info/data. Each square is hyperlinked.
visualisationmagazine.com/100datavis.htm
Featuring:
Brian Solis (many great pieces not featured)
TeleGeography
Barrett Lyon (opte project)
Eboy
Density Design (the milan universities students work, lots of beautiful & innovative designs)
Good.is (good transparencies)
Arnaud Velten
Paula Scher
David McCandless
John Maeda (RISD professor former MIT Aesthetics & Computation)
Brian Holmes
Saatchi & Saatchi
Mozy.com
Charles Joesph Minard
Walid Raad & Triple D
Denis Wood
Information Architects (Oliver R+)
Adam Sicinksi (brilliant mindmaps, very detailed and intiricate)
Design by Vent.com
Cameron Wilde
Jess Bachman (Wall Stats.com)
Andy Proehl
Marco Quaggiotto
Boris Muller
Peter Crnokrak
Scott Mccloud
Dizzia (Visual CV)
Lauren Bugeja
Chris Watson
Quentin Delobel
Martin Wattenburg
Gerson Mora (plenty on flickr)
NB Studio
Peter Ito
Skip Vision (federer/sampras)
Ouinon.net
Zach Bean
Luca Masud
Carl Tashian
Theo Deutinger (...and associates)
Ritwik Dey
Franchesco Franchi
Dr Bollen
See Ming Lee
Dr John Snow
Moritz Stefaner
Hugh Dubberly (...and associates)
Theodore Rosendorf
Lana (crochet diagram)
Julian Beever
Nicholas Feltron
Just search a handful of those names and you will have plenty of research to feed your imagination and design techniques styles. Will probably keep adding when i get time. oh and i know some arent strictly data vis/infographics, but we have to try and let the border between art and infographics to blend to promote innovation and creative growth for the fields (not that they havent already).
More great compilation sites to wet your appetite with:
http://ce.sysu.edu.cn/hope/Education/ShowArticle.asp?ArticleID=4883
http://geodata.grid.unep.ch/extras/posters.php#infographics_posters_iso_codes - geo data infographics (saw one of them on chart porn blog)
http://blogof.francescomugnai.com/2009/04/50-great-examples-of-infographics/comment-page-3/ - brilliant
http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/06/25-useful-infographics-for-web-designers/ - brilliant
http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/10/30-superb-examples-of-infographic-maps/
http://www.datavisualization.ch/inspiration/20-inspirational-infographics-12-%e2%80%93-19-10-09 - good collection, selections from their tumblar listed below
http://www.instantshift.com/2009/06/07/infographic-designs-overview-examples-and-best-practices/
More Galleries
WeLoveDatavis. excellant tumblr gallery from ben w at datavis.ch
Bigger Plate - is focused on providing a map sharing space for MindManager files. It offers a map library that is searchable by keyword, tags and categories. When you upload a map to share, the site automatically generates a preview image. Also, you can rate others’ maps, a feature which may help you to zero in on the most valuable maps, as judged by your peers. When you upload maps, you can designate them as password protected.
Cool Data Visualization Flickr
Density Design. MUST SEE infographics
GOOD magazine. infographic transparencies
Free mind share - This website bills itself as “a fast, simple way to share your FreeMind mind map(s).” After I logged in, the only option I saw was to upload and view my own maps. There doesn’t seem to be any kind of a public map gallery here. In fact, several of the capabilities of Freemindshare, including “groups” and “messages” don’t seem to be finished yet. Clicking on the links for them leads you to pages that say “This feature is not yet available"
Infografia Infographics Flickr
Infografistas.com / Infographics News Flickr
Innovation in Data Visualization Flickr
Nathan Yau's new flickr group and sets ] Flickr
Mappio - is a repository for MindManager and FreeMind maps. Maps are searchable by title and keyword tags, and you can also view a set of featured mind maps. You can preview any map as an image file, including small, medium, large and full screen (1024×768 pixel) images that show a lot of detail. You can then decide if you want to download it as an image or as a map. Mappio also displays related maps beneath the currently selected one. The whole site is well designed and is a pleasure to browse
Nova Mind Connect - This gallery is a companion to the website of NovaMind Pty. Ltd., a leading developer of mind mapping software. NovaMind enables you to create very colorful and engaging maps, and offers its users a unique capability: They can publish their maps directly from the program to the NovaMind Connect workspace. This gallery contains the most colorful and engaging maps of any I’ve seen. If you want to see what’s possible with mind mapping software, this is the gallery that will inspire you to a higher level of visual mapping.
Time Visualisations. Visual History Archive - Excellant
Topic Scape. excellant mind map / diagram archive
XMIND - Like NovaMind Connect, this gallery is part of the XMIND website. You can upload your map files directly from XMIND to this shared map space.
ReMap from Bestario. excellant reorganisation of Visual Complexity
Apologises i know there are some very imporatant people probably not mentioned,
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New York Times Key Magazine Cover
Note that I dont have an obsession with New York at the moment, but with such great art foundations of Rauschenberg, DeKooning & Pollock its no surprise of its creative vein. Today technology is the key that has fused creativity & opened boundaries to allow interdisciplinary practice.
The New York Times real estate magazine Key started with the cover design concept of hiring people that are brilliant to do personal interpretations of what a key means to them & their lives. The 1st cover in the Fall 2006 by Carin Goldberg featured all the places she lived at using the font Dynamoe (green & black thumbnail) & spring 2007 (yellow & purple thumbnail) was designed by new york design studio 2x4.
In dialogue with John Maeda (author of Creative Code: Aesthetics + Computation) art director Dick Barnett looked at some of Maeda's sketches and replied to him saying how he's 'loving #3 Google Mappish Mondrian' (3rd thumbnail along) idea and how he might 'think of a way to make it more personal to [maeda's] life'. Maeda responded utilising Boston, he states how he 'thinks of the world as a sort of map of cities', a topographic territory, he 'mined the internet for all the cities with an airport' & made a simple diagram and then drew some 'fluid like curves [framing] to connect into the centre of the keyhole' (4th thumbnail), (Centaur Publication, 2007, p. nov – 42).
Maeda wanted to concentrate on the background rather than the foreground & after some design processing (problem solving) such as replacing fonts used to that of Key magazines T-Star, it was finished. The design is brilliant, although probably not that easy a task to create without access/stroke knowledge of computer science functionality but excellant aesthetics. The overall white stands out from the blue (a colour normally percieved as depiciting sea in maps) causing a slight incongruity on part of the viewer, map reader/user. Boston being the epicentre of travel in this map providing the key access to other cities and the viral red linking lines spidering the topgraphic locations.
Excellant Map utilising technology to visualise data functionality mentioned upon with Bradford Paley, in the heart of its design.
'John Maeda is an artist and a computer scientist, and he views the computer not as a substitute for brush and paint but as an artistic medium in its own right. His mission is to foster the growth of what he calls 'humanist technologists'- people that are capable of articulating future culture through informed understanding of the technologies they use' (http://www.designboom.com/eng/interview/maeda.html, 2008, p. john maeda interview).
More examples of the stages of Maeda's Key Cover design here, http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2007/09/06/realestate/keymagazine/20070909_KEY_COV_SS_index.html
Creative Review. New York. Centaur Publication, 2007, p. nov – 42).
Text Arc - Alice in wonderland
In reference to aesthetics and the data functionality Bradford Paley created Text Arc (fig 95) a system for visualising literary texts states ‘beauty [form, aesthetics] is neither an alternative to function, nor a bolt-on extra. The two bear a more subtle relation to one another: “beauty is a personal goal, but I believe that it came from the accurate and comfortable representation of data”’ (Centaur Publication, 2008, p. mar – 50).
The aesthetic is needed to make it worth looking at see the whole functionality. DIDI.com. (2001). Digital image design incorporated - A TextArc is a visual represention of a text—the entire text (twice!) on a single page. A funny combination of an index, concordance, and summary; it uses the viewer's eye to help uncover meaning.
Centaur Publication. (2008). Creative Review – mar 2008, p.50.