The use of colour
And Mr Brinton has good practical advice too, that’s as relevant today as it was back then.
Olympic spending
This graphic does well something that is very hard to achieve: combining data with subject matter without falling to the pitfall of ‘decorating’ the data (spurious cut-outs, random icons, faded background images). When we’re asked to ‘jazz up’ a set…
Sizing up China
No maps, no icons, no cliches, no decoration, just one clever use of colour. I like this graphic because it is confident in its simplicity. It tells its story clearly.
