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Infographic thinking doesn’t let designers to interpret a narrative visually; it lets them invite the viewer join in the process of interpretation, too. It’s what makes infographic design a language, not a formula or a fad.
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Interview with Francesco Franchi, FastCo Design |
Welcome to Tokyo
I love this book by Elena Frielinghaus! Welcome to Tokyo explores, through a plethora of visualisations, the city of Tokyo, taking a look at demographics, geography and history.
In the words of Elena:
I dealt with visualizations of geographical, demographical and historical facts and figures about the japanese metropolis Tokyo. For an optimum comprehensibility I‘ve been experimenting with different forms of graphical representation. The focus is on the complex road network, the networked subway system, the demographic development and the commuter traffic of Tokyo. Finally I developed an information atlas, which contains cartography as well as visualized statistical data.
Tokyo Subway Map
Who rides what line?
A demographic breakdown by district
I just wish you could buy this book, as it would make a lovely addition to my growing collection!
A Chart of Charts
A helpful chart showing which types of chart to use when something needs charting.
Visualising Relationships in The Phantom Tollbooth
A gorgeous set of graphics by Jan Avendano, that depicts character relationships, classifications, location shifts, pace and narrative flow in the children’s book, The Phantom Tollbooth. Beautifully visualised.
City Transit Line Posters
Gorgeously simple line art of some of the most complicated city transit systems in the world by John Breznicky.
London
Paris
Tokyo
It is a collaboration between graphic designer, Cayla and engineer, John. In searching for modern and clean New York City transit artwork for their apartment, they came up empty handed. John recalled a line drawing of the subway system Cayla had created previously and suggested they transform the art into a custom large-scale vinyl decal for a wall in their living room.
Who would’ve thought that subway routes could have looked so beautiful?
Charles Dickens in Information Graphics
Check out these totally inspiring infographics by Density Design, all about Charles Dickens.
Places mentioned in his books
The connection and repetition of words throughout some of his most popular works
Urbanflow Aims To Turn Cities Into Playgrounds For Interactive Infographics
A really great idea that utilises the power of beautiful data visualisations to help people get to know the city around them.
Ever find yourself wandering around a new city (or even one you’re familiar with), and approach one of those handy urban info-kiosks only to find that it’s completely inadequate to the task of telling you where you are, where you might want to go, and what is going on around you? Urbanscale has the same frustration, which is why they teamed up with designers at Nordkapp to design a set of updated public signage called Urbanflow that’s as connected and interactive as the smartphone in your pocket. Here’s their concept video:
(via FastCo Design)
Chartwell: A Typeface for Creating Charts
Need to create quick, simple charts? Well now you can with this amazing typeface, Chartwell, designed by Travis Kochel. Basically you type numbers and plus signs, and out pops charts.
Chartwell is a set of three fonts that together create a remarkable set of tools for creating bar, line, and pie charts. It uses OpenType ligatures to perform its magic – a series of numbers can be transformed into clean, perfectly rendered graphs, as you type.
The Creative Life
This charming sketch by Christoph Niemann pretty much sums up my daily work life. The utter agony of creative block when I’m concepting right up to the sheer elation of finding an idea that works. Wonderfully summarised!
(via curiositycounts)
