Food for thought

Alberto Cairo. Visualization and knowledge. A short invitation to infographics

"Graphics works better than a table because, when give a visual shape to data, I'm creating a tool useful to accelerate (and sometimes replace) the processes the brain follow to reach its target"



"My personal method when I create infographic projects is very easy. It has three stages: research, planning and final art"

"The complexer the information gets, more basic should be the style to represent it"


2 comments:

Iovioana said...

I will remember that for the future!

Thomas said...

This is Brilliant!
To bad the link is broken. Luckily a smaller version can be found here:

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://s3.amazonaws.com/lcp/lanutria/myfiles/acairo0609_11.jpg&imgrefurl=http://lanutria.lacoctelera.net/&usg=__X-DPgnmoLc6h82qrshLgC_X-Yyo=&h=209&w=350&sz=19&hl=no&start=17&sig2=4HHdUtLgUo2P

and here:

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AtYaoiApqwU/SrvrOM5CAdI/AAAAAAAABTs/eE1m6lTky48/s320/acairo0609_11.gif&imgrefurl=http://anyformsdesign.blogspot.com/2009/09/juicio-contra-las-bolas.html&usg=__R7A3hsL48He5gTQokb1D9r0Uu0I=&h=191&w=320&sz=54&hl=no&start=20&sig2=1nbf9jEiXDvl4g_cV5OESQ&tbnid=gzTYAtAophcsCM:&tbnh=70&tbnw=118&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dacairo%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Dno%26sa%3DG&ei=Z7MfS5fANYW9jAffsfGgCw

(Google img search)

BTW although I don't use sparklines, your site is inspiring