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Icons: Repeat, never scale

Icons: Repeat, never scale

February 11, 2016 · by lupi · in example, opinion

I’m running a lot of workshops at the moment, and in reviewing delegates’ work, and the work of their organisations, there is one common pitfall: poor use of icons. A few blogs about icons are coming up… Here I simply…

Infographics: Versatile and useful

December 19, 2014 · by lupi · in example, opinion

2014’s been busier than ever, in no small part down to some lovely clients keeping me on my toes. And looking back through the work I’ve done has made me realise what a range of subjects and approaches and platforms…

The whole is greater than the sum of its parts

The whole is greater than the sum of its parts

August 5, 2014 · by lupi · in example, opinion

I love it when I come across two examples of a point I want to make. That adds more weight to said point, right? I started yesterday off enjoying BBC History’s series of video explainers about WW1. Lovely, and informative,…

Cardification: shareable nuggets of content

Cardification: shareable nuggets of content

July 3, 2014 · by lupi · in example, opinion

Social media has given us a new measure of success to become slaves to: shareability. Get it right and the number of eyes on your content increases exponentially. Like any new ‘thing’ it needs a label. From my visual standpoint…

Lessons from visual journalism

Lessons from visual journalism

July 1, 2014 · by lupi · in event, example, opinion

"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…

Choosing colours

Choosing colours

July 1, 2014 · by lupi · in example, opinion

Before you even get into the discussions of the emotional connotations of different colours there is something you should take into account first: not everyone has perfect vision. How a handful of recently published graphics look to most of us:…

Getting the basics right

Getting the basics right

May 31, 2014 · by lupi · in example, opinion

I’m surprised to discover it’s eight years now that I’ve been running workshops about drawing charts (amongst other things +). The reason this was brought to mind today was JP Koning‘s graphic doing the rounds on Twitter (for the second,…

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I am Lulu Pinney. This is my blog. Hello! contact at lulupinney dot co dot uk
The majority of work featured on this blog isn't mine. They are examples of infographic design and visual journalism drawn from all over that I consider to be good*. With more and more visual infostuff out there I’m interested in curating a collection of good* work. And in this way I can further explore my definition of what good* is. That is why I blog.

*Good infographic design is…

…clear, relevant, engaging, useful, original, elegant

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