Thought for Christmas
Merry Christmas! See you in 2012.
Visuals that add meaning
“Done well, infographic design clarifies, explains, reveals or adds meaning”. This poster is a perfect of example of the latter. See it – and lots more besides – at London Transport Museum’s Poster Parade Painting by Numbers, 6 January –…
Visual chapters
Look at the six thumbnail sketches down the left hand side: I really like the use of visuals here to draw attention to where the stories are. They serve to guide the reader through an otherwise complicated and confusing landscape.
Working with numbers
It was three ‘zero-confused’ examples from last week – see bottom of this post – that got me thinking about tackling this topic. The result is wordy, but I hope helpful. Feedback welcome, I’d love to nail down some good…
To map or not to map
A bugbear of mine is people who jump at using a map as a solution for a set of data that happens to include place names. “But what’s the story?” I ask. Matt Ericson explains so eloquently, with examples, why…
Learning to spot patterns
Seeing this lovely set of playing cards gives me the excuse to air a thought I had a while ago. As a child I played cards lots. And the skills I didn’t realise I was learning are dead useful for…