Information is Beautiful

Information is Beautiful is David McCandless' site where he utilises Graphic Information Design to visualise confusing or varied data and to accompany news stories.

Hours spent watching television/time taken to create Wikipedia

His work is thought provoking and interesting, as well as being visually attractive, and each piece can stand alone as a piece of design. My favourite article from the website is that visualising the true effects of nuclear warfare, a fear that has been drummed into us for many years, perhaps only loosely based on fact.


http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2009/how-i-learnt-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-bomb/

'How I Learnt to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb'

I like this image as it combines logical and easy to understand information with attractive and simple illustrations, and is much easier to follow than would be the case if the statistics were just recorded numerically.

Bibliography

Information is Beautiful (no date). Visualisations [Online]. Available from: http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/ [Accessed 13th February 2012].