Tag Archives: infographics

Stefanie Posavec talks about her beautiful handcrafted infographics

By Leonora Oppenheim | Published: October 21, 2011

This is a lovely video from Protein OS interviewing Stefanie Posavec about her work creating infographics. We love her “hand made” approach to dealing with patterns in numbers.  Read the feature on Stefanie here and watch the interview below.   “Everything I have done so far has revolved around things that I love – books [...]

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Infographics made easy with ‘Chartwell Type’

By Hannah Thompson | Published: September 19, 2011

We’re excited to see a recent development by Portland based TK Type, which has made creating infographics simpler for both print and the web. TK Type have developed a downloadable font named “Chartwell Type”, which allows the user to create pie charts, bar graphs and spark lines very easily through  OpenType to interpret and visualise the [...]

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Infographics Brought to Life

By Hannah Thompson | Published: June 15, 2011

A few months ago we found this wonderful example of bringing infographics to life. At Creative Data we love looking for more tangible and creative ways to communicate data. Peter Orntoft‘s work, shows Danish opinions about wearing religious symbols in the public sector. The use of bright colours, with simple objects in context, works really [...]

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LocalGlobal Thanksgiving

By Ellie Edwards | Published: November 30, 2010

Image by Elevine Lillebuen Berge Our meticulously planned and scrumptiously executed event LocalGlobal Thanksgiving took place on Saturday. We can’t take all the credit though; the wonderful Alex Haw brought a tasty touch of Latitudinal Cuisine and Yinka Shonibare was kind enough to have Guest Projects host the event. The whole occasion arose from a [...]

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Roman Ondak at the Temporary Stedelijk

By Ellie Edwards | Published: November 17, 2010

A beautifully simple project to share today. Slovakian artist Roman Ondák has created a ‘living infographic’ at the Temporary Stedelijk within the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. The project, named Measuring the Universe, invites visitors to plot their height on the walls which, in turn and over a period of time, will start to reveal the mean average; a small [...]

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Telling Stories With Data – VisWeek2010

By Ellie Edwards | Published: November 12, 2010

Here at CreativeData we like to think of ourselves as data storytellers. So imagine our delight when we found this inspiring article on a recent workshop at VisWeek2010 named Telling Stories with Data, which specifically examined the construction of narratives with data visualisation. The workshop, organised by Matt McKeon, Karrie Karahalios, and Joan DiMicco, drew participants with [...]

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CityMurmur – mapping media

By Ellie Edwards | Published: November 3, 2010

City Murmur‘s goal is to show how the media portray different areas of a particular city through the attention that is given to each street. A ‘media geography’ is therefore created, which intersects with the geographical actuality of the city. CityMurmur does not address maps and diagrams as mere representations but as tools for action. [...]

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Visualizing.org

By Leonora Oppenheim | Published: October 22, 2010

Here at Creative Data we’re excited by any and all work that sets out to communicate research and data in beautiful, entertaining and engaging ways. That’s what we’re all about. Although our aim is to work spatially with 3d installations, the majority of work in this area is going on graphically. David McCandless, author of [...]

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