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.