Ever four years (yes I know they’ll start on the new one in about a week) elections enter our lives bringing with them many things including constant tv, radio, newspaper ads and bitter family debates. Most of the election baggage is annoying but for designers there is one huge bonus, a slew of beautiful well [...]
Jonathan Harris is a story teller. In the tradition of the best story tellers he uncovers glimpses of life, and allows you to reconstruct the rest. You can hear him speak about his work at TED Dec 2007 here or here. His now old project We Feel Fine or his more recent The Whale Hunt are beautiful [...]
The See Conference is a conference on information design, from their website: “Our world is growing increasingly complex, dynamic and multi-dimensional. And so is our communication. The see conference is dedicated to new approaches that are being developed in the fields of design, art, architecture, multimedia and economy to confront this complexity and to transform the immense [...]
It’s a little dated by now, but Smashing Magazine posted a gallery of Data Visualization and Infographics . It is filled with tons of good examples including work from GOOD Magazine and Megan Jaegerman. There is some really brilliant stuff there so take a look and get inspired.
The new site Infodesignpatterns.com is probably one of the most useful sites online. Created by Christian Behrens to accompany his Master’s thesis from FH Potsdam. On this site he has collected a large variety of information design patterns, with explanations, layouts and real-world examples. Additionally he has created a pattern search which allows you to search by order, goal, type or [...]