A week or so ago, Tom Crawford sent me a link to the PDF, “Visualizing Design for Advocacy: An Introduction to Information Design.” In my opinion it’s a great little primer on information design for those of us who don’t have any experience with it.

They outline a process for [...]

This is cool. New York designer Nicholas Felton has created a 2007 annual report of his life, The 2007 Feltron Annual Report, full of infographics, such as number of vacation days taken per month, itunes tracks played, miles traveled, subway trips, dining (including most bizarre – [...]

Came across a reference to the book, Visual Communication: Images with Messages by Paul Martin Lester. Looks pretty good, but at over $100 for a new edition, I won’t be ordering that very soon. However, I also came across Lester’s course notes. He’s a professor in the Department of Communication at Cal [...]

At the recent VizThink conference, I attended a couple of breakout sessions on mapping; Bruce Daniel’s “VizMaps: An Alternate Approach to Describing Where” and John Grimwade’s “Mapping the Possibilities.”

At the time, I wasn’t really sure what attracted me to these two mapping sessions, but reflecting upon it now, I think I was hoping that one [...]