Oct 15
This weekend finally my copy of The Functional Art arrived, Alberto Cairo’s long-awaited introduction to infographics and visualizations. Jubilant reviews can be found around the web (among others by Robert Kosara, Nick Diakopoulos, and Stephen Few) so I’m not going to praise again Cairo’s excellent mix of design practice and perceptual and cognitive theory, the …
Oct 11
How can I have missed this? Edward Boatman is the new Otto Neurath. As a design student in college he had a thought: “What if I had a sketch for every single object in the world?” After graduating he started working and was too busy to do something with his idea. However, due to the …
Oct 08
Take one look at the laureates of the Information is Beautiful Award that were announced last week and you know the visualization community is as international and cosmopolitan as it gets. Winners are based around the world, from the United States (Stamen) and the United Kingdom (Peter Jeffs), to Germany (Moritz Stefaner), Italy (Michele Mauri), …
Sep 25
Many will agree that The New York Times and The Guardian are important – maybe the most important – pioneers when it comes to the use of interactive visualizations in journalism. Therefore it is interesting to compare these two newspapers. How do they manage the production of their interactives? And what are the similarities and …
Sep 19
Some people are better in keeping their promises than other. I for instance promised myself to update this blog more regularly. Well, take a look at the date of the last post… However, Eugene Tjoa promised to modernize Isotype by adding motion and interactivity to the excellent artwork of graphic designer Gerd Arntz and applying …
May 28
No other genre in journalism is more intertwined with infographics than the weather. It’s hard to find a newspaper or a news show that doesn’t use icons, charts and maps to forecast temperatures, wind speeds and the chance of rain. Interactivity can add a lot of value to weather maps and charts, for instance by …
Apr 03
In my presentation on e-learning research last week I made a short reference to Narrative Visualization: Telling Stories with Data, the famous article by Edward Segel and Jeffrey Heer. Today, Marije Rooze tweeted a link to this great video in which Segel shares his ideas on digital storytelling, data visualization, and interactivity. The most important …
Mar 22
For a moment, I thought it was a coincidence. A few months ago I became fascinated by Isotype, the pictorial language created in the 1920s and 1930s. Within the span of a week, I found out that several people I work with actually had made the same discovery. First I attended an impassioned lecture on …
Mar 04
Although this blog is about interactive infographics, I’m interested in other aspects of information visualization as well. Lately, as the previous post indicates, I have been studying Isotype as a forerunner of infographic design. Earlier I wrote about my fascination with animated infographics or explanimations. Logically, I was very happy with a presentation by Ekaterina …
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