Infographics: Versatile and useful
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
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
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
"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
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
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,…
Core values
In a world of colourful, interactive, big data it can be easy to forget that straightforward infographics still have their part to play, adding breadth and depth to news stories as the BBC correctly describe it. Here are two good…