The 2016 presidential election was fraught with anxiety and fueled by emotional statements and drama. As the public, we were witness to opinions as to who would win and who would lose. The media, the pollsters, and many reputable sites predicting the outcome were just plain wrong. Many of us visited sites like fivethirtyeight which … Continue reading
What do you get when you cross a bartender with a musician and a world traveler? A kickass infographic designer! No, really. It’s true. And we have proof. Creating an infographic requires taking large amounts of data and synthesizing it into visual bites that are easy to digest. Not an easy task. Allovus was looking … Continue reading
Featured on brainpickings.com, is the next installment from Pulitzer-Prize-winning journalist, New Yorker writer, and Scientific American neuroscience blog editor Gareth Cook, The Best American Infographics 2014. The book captures the finest examples, from the past year, of this mesmerizing new way of seeing and understanding our world. With an introduction by master-statistician Nate Silver, the book features … Continue reading
The demand for infographics has shifted into high gear. Companies are requesting designers to create these attention-getting images to make information more succinct and easy to convey to their users. And as a bonus, infographics are also great resource for business promotion. The folks at lynda.com have put together a tutorial outlining the five keys to … Continue reading
Summer is almost over. But there is still time to enjoy some great recipes perfect for barbeques and entertaining summertime guests. We put together a collection of 5 recipe infographics sure to make your outdoor party a hit. The World’s Best Guacamole Designer: Alex Doolan, Recipe: Alton Brown Build Your Best Sangria MissouriWine.org How to … Continue reading
Everyone needs a traditional and polished resumé. However, for those creative people looking for work, it might be a good idea to do a second resumé—created with your own design flair. Producing a second more design-oriented version of your resumé might be the key to setting yourself apart in the eyes of a prospective employer. HowDesign.com … Continue reading
The new generation of Infographics are making it a lot easier to understand and digest data. With fancy and sometimes animated images, readers can gain a whole new appreciation of information without having to read an encyclopedia. In a new book edited by Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Gareth Cook and an introduction written by polymath … Continue reading
Check out the second half of our top ten animated infographics list! 6. Herman Miller – This is You: Nice infographic explaining why Herman Miller is a great place to work. 7. What is HubStop? Hubstop offers an All-In-One Marketing software system to help companies get the word out in today’s world. 8. One Trillion … Continue reading
Given the popularity of infographics these days, we thought it might be fun to dig up some that are a little different—animated infographics. Here’s a list we felt were particularly informative and entertaining. (Part one includes the top five, part two includes six through ten.) 1. The World is Obsessed with Facebook by Alex Trimpe: An … Continue reading
When you think about the amount of metadata involved in a social media company like Twitter, the information is indeed mind-blowing. According to Fast Company (www.fastcompany.com,) Twitter’s datastream or “firehose” is full of metadata that discloses personal, geographic, and technological information on Twitter’s tens of millions of users. Gnip, one of the best known resellers of … Continue reading