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71 posts tagged information graphics
Bloomberg teams up with Frog to turn data into branding. Love the design - taking what Bloomberg does best - data - and simplifying into easy to digest elements. It plays the part of content and brand.
Source fastcodesign.com
Somehow, strategy didn’t make it on here - I would be happy to create a story around that.
Source bigorangeslide.com
Infographic on inforgraphics. (Seriously, how could I possibly have resisted this one to close out the week?)
Source feed.razorfish.com
Ok, so not the most innovative infographic ever, but it’s funny. And I love Halloween. And I wish they would stop associating Snooki with Jersey (she’s NOT from Jersey).
Source flavorwire.com
America’s melting pot is not really represented by our government officials - of either party. And interestingly (but not surprisingly), wealth is a key differentiator:
The average American’s net worth is $96,000. But the average Senator’s net worth?$13.4 million. For House members that sum drops to “just” $5 million.
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A disruptive technology or disruptive innovation is an innovation that helps create a new market and value network, and eventually goes on to disrupt an existing market and value network (over a few years or decades), displacing an earlier technology there. - Wikipedia
So the next game-changer is…?
Source Mashable
Tuesday Top Five - Information Graphics
Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.
Walt Disney
It’s all about info graphics this week. So what IS an information graphic? Simple - information graphics take lots of data - usually ungodly boring data - and distills it into simple, clear (ideally) graphical representations. When done well, the result is tremendous.
- First up - résumés. I’m a little obsessed with this topic, but it’s worth a recap. There’s re.vu, vizualize.me, and a great app by brazencareerist. On the lighter side, about.me and flavors.me are more like digital business cards, but still have lots of “pretty” potential.
- Daytum, from Nicholas Feltron (read about him - he’s important) and fellow interactive designer Ryan Case (also important) let’s you create information graphics about the most mundane events in your life. Let the world know how many Americanos you drink per day or how naptime goes (as if anyone cares). Side note - Facebook recently acquired Daytum (more privacy concerns). Feltron is behind the Facebook timeline design and Feltron and Case have recently announced they will be joining the Facebook team.
- If you want something a little silly, check out GraphJam.
- Good has an amazing information graphics section on their site called Transparency.
- Visual.ly curates information graphics and is building a tool that, hopefully, will allow those of us with little design experience to create our own pretty pictures.
