Graphic Design (general) Archive:
RSA Animations
28 Jun 2010The RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce) has been producing a series of fascinating animated info-lectures on a variety of topics. Below is a sampling.
on time:
on being "happy!":
Superfreakonomics:
Infographomania
23 Jun 2010Another self-loathing infographic (that I am in complete agreement with). You might have noticed that Chartporn doesn’t post every infographic out there. I try to filter out the more boilerplate ones – I read all the crap, so you don’t have to.
Non-Geographic Mapping: Transportation
In: Culture Graphic Design (general) Interactive Maps Science
16 Jun 2010An example of dynamic re-mapping.
A detailed article discussing using alpha values (transparency) instead of standard cartograms. I really really like the cube of thematic map typography. Related paper.
Sparklines in Twitter
9 Jun 2010An excel tool to create unicode sparklines.
Plotweaver Graphing Software
9 Jun 2010Stanford Student Vadim Ogievetsky is writing some software to allow the automated creation of timeline charts like XKCD’s “Interactions of Move Characters”. I didn’t dig too deep into this, but there’s lots of detail there is you’re interested. (via)
Color Strata
9 Jun 2010A beautiful chart of the most popular colors (based on the xkcd survey data).
Unemployment 1980-2009
4 Jun 2010A nice bit of coding from Alex Kerin. Resized and colored states, maintaining relative positions.
Odds of Being Killed
19 May 2010I don’t much care for the infographic, but I love weird warning signs. (via)
Thai Politics Timeline
18 May 2010I really like the design.
5 Myths of Visual Communication
12 May 2010
and while we’re at it, here’s another excellent article from the same blog (Understanding Grahics) on “Themes for a Good Infographic“:
When to Use Motion Charts
11 May 2010Everyone loves Hans Roslings Ted Talks, but when is motion a good thing to add to your visualizations? Juice Analytics has written up a short answer.
Excellent article by Sarah Slobin (who has worked for NYT, Fortune, CNN, WSJ, etc) on how to research and design your own work. (via)
History of the Infographic
7 May 2010Flowing Data has written up an interesting 1st hand account of the rise of online infographics (since ~2006).
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