Icons: Repeat, never scale
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…
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…
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…
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 –…
Keeping it real
This bit of work… …reminded me of this bit of work: They’re both great for bringing things that are hard to get your head around to a more familiar level.
Wow v ah-ha
This title captures so perfectly a current theme in the ever more data driven infographic-land that I haven’t changed it. It’s lifted from a recent blog post from Juice Analytics that caught my eye a couple of weeks back. Whether…
Humanising data
Databases are dry. While they will reveal their secrets to statisticians it’s a challenge to make them digestible, and useful, to the world at large. More often than not the fact that the database exists seems to be driver enough…