Showing posts with label information graphics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label information graphics. Show all posts

Monday, November 23, 2009

AWH, always with honor

Always With Honor is a creative collective specializing in map, icon,
and information design. Our mission is to create work that helps break
down complex information into simple (and fun) designs that are easily
understood and enjoyed.

To date our work has featured in such publications as Good, Esquire, Wired, Money
Magazine, and Wired Italia, and we are regular contributors to Monocle.
Our work also appears in books published by Chronicle Books and Harper Collins.





A diagram which maps out the connections between the
most disparate of forces, events, and systems affecting our planet.




Information graphic showing the levels, density and specific items
that make up the clouds of space debris surrounding our planet.





A diagram mapping out the combination each scientist draws from in their hybrid field of science.





Diagram pointing out areas of the brain that are affected by exercise and their impact.







http://www.alwayswithhonor.com/

Thursday, November 12, 2009

Information graphics, designers and more links

http://www.johngrimwade.com/

John Grimwade is the information graphics director of both Condé Nast Traveler and Condé Nast Portfolio magazines. With a career spanning over thirty years (which includes contributions to 30 other major magazines, and 8 years as graphics consultant to Popular Science), he is inarguably one of the most influential information graphic designers of the past

http://www.albertocairo.com/

http://benfry.com/

Ben Fry is director of Seed Visualization and its Phyllotaxis Lab, a design laboratory in Cambridge, Massachusetts focused on understanding complex data. He currently develops Processing, an open-source software programming language. He also has a book out called Visualizing Data.

http://www.nigelholmes.com/


From 1966 to 1977 Nigel Holmes worked as a freelance illustrator and graphic designer in London, England for newspapers and magazines. From 1978 to 1994 he went to New York working for Time Magazine to design so called "explanation graphics" for the magazine. In that time he also continued other work as freelance designer, lecturer, and authored a book on "Wordless diagrams".

http://www.catalogtree.net/

A database of information graphics, made in the Netherlands.

http://www.xkcd.com/657/

A movie narrative chart of Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Jurassic Park, 12 Angry Men and Primer.


Also, all the posts for infographics on typoblogger are now linked to "information graphics", which you can find on the right-hand side of this blog. So, check out the old posts put up for past classes.

Information graphics from Gen's students, past and present

Adrian Carhuayo

Alysson Castro

Andreina Carrillo

Blanda Eggenschweiler

Chris Rogers

Colette Nickola

Erin Kim

Rocco Cambareri

Sarah Macreading




Youkyung Choi

Yutt Wattanapanich

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

reMap (Visual Complexity) - Information Graphic


reMap is a visual approach for navigating through visualcomplexity using "descriptive tags" that show the relationship between the projects.

Look at Bestiaro, who created this site, and also processing.org, which is one of the free open-source programming languages that creates interactive sites like this.