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Information is Beautiful
David McCandless
David McCandless’s studio site: facts and data turned into designed graphics, many of them interactive and kept up to date, alongside the Information is Beautiful Awards for work by others.
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David McCandless
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What you will find
- Designed graphics on science, health, money and the internet, such as World’s Biggest Data Breaches & Hacks and the Billion Dollar-o-Gram
- Interactive pieces that update as new events are added
- Links to the underlying data for many graphics
- The Information is Beautiful Awards, a showcase of work by other designers
What we can learn from it
- 01Design can carry the argument: shape, size and colour each encode something
- 02Publishing the data next to the graphic invites readers to check it
- 03A striking layout can cost precision: compare what catches the eye with what you can read off
Chart types you will meet there
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