What is an ‘infographic’?
With the end of the summer holidays people are back at their desks and busy commissioning new projects. I’ve had a flurry of enquiries for ‘infographics’. Great news it seems, but only up until the point I realise my ‘infographics’…
Lessons from visual journalism
"Telling the story with the picture you create." via @lulupinney #visualDEN pic.twitter.com/rUFoaedUJN — James Lethem (@Sycren) June 5, 2014 Many people in industries beyond journalism are having to communicate visually in their work, or to put it another way tell…
Malofiej 22: More instant read, less big data
So, I signed up to go to Malofiej22 to recharge my infographic batteries. The result? Mission accomplished, big tick, job done. As ever it was great :) What did I learn? I learnt that while technology is changing – specifically…
Acknowledging the audience
I know the BBC News Graphics team takes a lot of notice of its audience. And I know that in 2011 this set them apart from other newsroom graphics desks: at the Malofiej infographic conference that year no other news…
Conference with a cause
I’ve been collecting the work and ideas of people I admire on this blog and in reviewing the recent Information Design Conference under the title of Designing with a cause I ended up referencing most of them. Which means I’ve…
Designing with a cause
Loved this little detail on every (brilliant) helper’s shoulder at last week’s Information Design Conference held in Greenwich here in London. It typifies what information designers do best: coming up with a simple and appropriate solution specific to a context….
Malofiej20
Sadly I wasn’t able to go this year but here’s a great round up by Jonathon Berlin of the best, the quirky, the one and only, Malofiej annual infographics conference, highlighting the main themes, ideas, people. The roll call of…