Tag Archives: infographics

Educational food and drink infographics

In the past couple of weeks I’ve been noticing an increase in infographics about food and drink, whether these are brand new productions or just old content being resurfaced I thought I’d start collecting them as and when they cropped up.
What follows are 20 examples of food and drink infographics, ranging from high-end commissions for […]

Post Details Posted January 16, 2010 at 5:40 pm By Dave | Filed under Food & Drink, infographics | Also tagged , , , , | 17 Comments

Visualisations and infographics

I’m about to start the third visualisation for my One Week of The Guardian series, and I’ve been looking through my research on static visualisations and infographics research. Some of these visuals are really very beautiful, so I’m about to share. Enjoy.

The NYTimes has a nice clean infographic on what the presidential candidates have raised and spent.

Another […]

Post Details Posted March 17, 2008 at 4:44 am By Dave | Filed under Research | Also tagged , , , , , , , , | 18 Comments

Infographics and pictograms, more research

Well I’m getting ready to disect a few pages of statistics and start creating a bunch of pictograms and infographics, and I did what’s probably going to be the last lot of research on the subject.

Destructive spending by liquisoft, via DeviantArt.
Our goal was to design a poster that informed the public of something. Our focus, for this […]

Post Details Posted December 18, 2007 at 7:29 am By Dave | Filed under Research | Also tagged , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

The infographic army squad

I’ve been sifting through pages and pages of statistics lately in order to break them down for another infographic piece based on the war on Iraq. Partly because its a highly controversial subject at the moment, and partly because there are pages and pages of statistics on it.
For example, according to this About.com piece, the U.S. […]

Post Details Posted December 17, 2007 at 4:29 am By Dave | Filed under DTN Lab, Design | Also tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 3 Comments

Why represent the news as pictograms and infographics?

The aim of the news is to report on the happenings of a certain subject with as much detail as possible, to be objective and not saturated with statistics, whilst keeping it interesting and readable.
Some news is interesting enough to read, and then you want to know more about it. With other news you can look […]

Post Details Posted December 13, 2007 at 11:31 pm By Dave | Filed under Research | Also tagged , , , , , , , , | 0 Comments

Headlines with pictograms, part two

More playing with pictograms and headlines today, but trying it on a background related to the headline story for more visual effect. Another story from the Guardian newspaper, this time about a serial killer in Canada. Note to self, must choose happier headline next time.
“Pig farmer jailed for six murders” - The Guardian

Fairly red, pretty dark, kinda gritty.

Post Details Posted December 11, 2007 at 2:50 am By Dave | Filed under DTN Lab, Design | Also tagged , , , , , | 5 Comments