This is a guest post by Tiago Veloso, the founder of Visual Loop, a collaborative digital environment for everything related to information design and data visualization. He lives in Brazil, and you can connect with him online on Twitter and LinkedIn.
As we move past the New Year celebration season, it’s time to go on with our lives and get back to the usual routines – and for us at Visual Loop, that means writing abut Infographics and data visualization. We took a small break, but even so we publish quite a number of articles last month, and we now share with you some of that content.
Hope you enjoy the best of Visual Loop in January – including our brand new weekly series of Vintage Infographics!
Featured articles:
Resources, round-ups and selections of visual information goodies. We started the year Looking back at 2012 with data visualization resources, checking out data visualization and infographic galleries, blog posts and videos about the year that just ended. Here’s a couple of them:
Wikipedia Remembers
(image: Visual.ly | Wikipedia)
New York Times best interactive infographics of 2012
The New York Times best interactive infographics of 2012
Other articles:
- 13 Amazing Infographic Portfolios from Europe | A selection of some of the portfolios featured every week
- It’s great to be part of a happy story! |Infographic designer Guillermo Munro included us as a highlight of his awesome 2012
- Malofiej 21: Speakers announced | A wide range of experts in data visualization and information design will meet in Pamplona
- Best of 2012: great new data visualization blogs and galleries | A collection of information design websites that made their ‘online debut’ last year.
- Looking at the Pieces: Using Symbols & Icons in Your Visual Story, by Mark D. West | What you should take in account when choosing icons for visual narratives
- The New Year and the infographic contests | The expectation around the major infographic events, like Malofiej 21.
- Teaching without words | Examples from 1946 demostrating how an image can be self-explanatory
Cool projects:
Some of the coolest data viz projects we featured in January, including several guest posts by the authors themselves. Here’s one of those projects, by Alessandro Lingua:
Dr. Seuss Storylines, by Alessandro Lingua | How complex narratives can be visually reduced to their essential elements
(image: Alessandro Patrick Lingua)
(image: Alessandro Patrick Lingua)
Browse through other projects featured in January:
- Sum of the Parts, by Abigail Solberg | A new system of visualizing the ingredients and preparation of a recipe
- I Am Who I Am Because of Everyone, by Ben Powell | What happens when you try to visualize something that isn’t quantifiable?
- Acqua // Infographic Mock up | Infographic about the waste of water using a 3D mock up technique with paper.
- Is Print Dying? By Tae S. Yang | How the publication industry is slowly shifting towards digital
If you’re interested in getting your data visualization work featured, just reach out using the contact form on Visual Loop’s website.
Interactive Inspiration:
Our weekly selection of Interactive graphics from all over the world. This month, we gathered dozens of examples, like these ones:
Billionaires of the World | Bloomberg
(image:Bloomberg )
U.S. Presidential Inaugural Speeches | Santiago Ortiz
(image:Santiago Ortiz )
The last three months on Foursquare | Foursquare
(image:Foursquare )
Check out the full selections:
- Interactive Inspiration [20]
- Interactive Inspiration [19]
- Interactive Inspiration [18]
- Interactive Inspiration [17]
Infographic Portfolios:
Every week, a new portfolio from a world-class infographic designer. Here are last month’s featured works, including Eduardo Asta‘s, a well-known name in the journalistic infographic world from Brazil.
How does the Google Street View works? | Folha de S.Paulo
(image: Eduardo Asta | Folha de S. Paulo)
Maracanã | O Estado de S.Paulo
(image: Eduardo Asta | O Estado de S.Paulo)
Music City | O Estado de S.Paulo
(image: Eduardo Asta, Marcos Muller | O Estado de S.Paulo)
More infographic portfolios:
- Portfolio of the Week – Sharona Gonen | Opening our series of portfolios of 2013, a colorful information design display from Israel
- Portfolio of the Week – Juan Colombato | We welcome the first featured portfolio from Argentina!
- Portfolio of the Week – Antonio Farach | Infographic inspiration from Honduras
Vintage InfoDesign:
A new series of posts featuring examples of maps, charts, diagrams and graphics from a time way before the ‘infographic explosion’ on the Internet. Here’s a sample:
Wound Man (c. 1400s) | Claudius (Pseudo) Galen
(image: Claudius (Pseudo) Galen,c. 1400s )
(Via Wellcome Library)
How to Know Your Guided Missiles (1950)
(image:Popular Science,1950 )
(Via Modern Mechanix)
Night-Club Map of Harlem (1932)
(image: Elmer Simms Campbell,1932 )
(Via Strange Maps)
Want more vintage inspiration? Just click the links below:
Interviews
Brief conversations with people that are a reference in the field of data visualization, either globally or locally. We had the pleasure of presenting an interview made by Marco Vergotti to Prof. Tattiana Teixeira, and a special twi-part conversation between our regular columnist Susana Pereira with one of the top names in scientific illustration, Diana Marques:
- Talking with… Tattiana Teixeira | The state of infographic design in Brazil and the role of universities in innovation
- Conversation with Diana Marques – Part 1 | First part of an interview with one of the top names in the field of Scientific illustration
- Conversation with Diana Marques – Part 2 | Past, present and future projects, bringing together scientific visualization and digital media.
And that’s it for this first round-up of 2013. As we said before, we do post more content so feel free to join us on Facebook and Twitter for daily updates about infographics and data visualization. You should also visit our massive Pinterest collection, with thousands of infographics . And we’ll be back next month with the best of Visual Loop.
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