Where I find infographics: Tumblr

Tumblr is a popular blogging site that I spend waaay to much time on. However over the course of the year I have been able to use this site as a source for infographics as well as inspiration for where I want to go in my blog. The blog visualgraphic.tumblr.com has a lot of really cool infographics and designs. The majority of the things posted there are minimalistic which is a really popular style for infographics. Here are some of the cooler designs I have seen posted recently.

Read More

What makes an infographic cool?

http://www.coolinfographics.com/blog/2013/5/8/tiago-veloso-what-makes-an-infographic-cool.html
This artice thing came from the website that I get most of the infographics that I review from. I like how they analyze infographics and the making of infographics. Anyone who wants to make infographics should check this and the whole website out because it does a really good job at analyzing infographics and their features.

Read More

Styles of infographics #2

Historical infographics are really popular. I believe this is because infographc are easily created from timelines and timelines are a huge part of history. These could also fall under the category of educational infographics but I believe these are so popular they deserve their own post.

Again if you cant see the picture very well check out www.coolinfographics.com because some images just don't handle getting put on blogger very well.

2000 Years of Continental Climate Changes

I really like how this one displays data so nicely and efficiently using almost no words.

The History Of Famous Logos

This infographic is more of a "fun" historical infographic it also has a really cool design and layout that makes it more interesting to read. 

Read More

Styles of infographics.

So I haven't been on here as much this month because I have been really trying to boost the progress and group moral of my group blog but I have been working on a little series of posts where I  compare some popular styles of infographics. I have no idea how long I am going to do this or how many posts it will be because whenever I give myself any kind of guidelines like that I end up getting bored and or frustrated trying to live up to the expectations I have set for myself.

Ok so the first section is the advertisement. This is an infographic that is used to promote a company or topic. I posted a while ago about the PF Changs one which I really liked but there are so many more. I don't think using infographics as ads is a bad thing. I like how it incorporates more facts and statistics than a normal advertisement.

Some of these came out pretty badly in the save/insert process but you can see them all in their full glory on coolinfographics.com

Examples:

Hotels.com

Project Prediction

Sony Walkman

Read More

Boston Explosion Infographic

Here are some infographics I found about the Bombings in Boston. They help visualize what happened and put it into some perspective. Some of them are kind of small but I tried to get the best quality/biggest version.

This one is my favorite its actually a gif. If you check out the website I linked you can see it in its full glory. 

Read More

Post Winning Entries

I am going to post some of the sample winning entries from the competition website. There are some really good ones in here. I don't know what to expect when I get there but If its anything like this I will definitely need to step up my skills a bit before the competition. My main goal is not to win it is to gain new experiences and try to create something I actually enjoy.

Year 2011-2012

This one is my favorite I really enjoy the little characters and how professional it looks. 

Year 2010-2011

I like the simple and straight forward approach in this infographic. I feel like I might be able to make something similar to this one. 

Year 2009-2010

This one is rather busy but I really like the theme and layout of the information.

Read More

Making infographics.

Yesterday I made an infographic following the guidelines of the practice prompt for the journalism competition. But as I went to save it I messed something up and it deleted. I still wanted to document the progress I have made so I drew a very rough sketch of what I had made. I created this infographic on ease.ly and in order to make it more like the actual competition I didn't use any of the premade items and themes. 

Read More

Pandora vs. Spotify

I posted some time ago about how pandora a algorithms are cool/scary. I found this infographic pretty eye opening on how many more songs/people are on it. This infographic kind of makes me want to try out spotify as well. It's pretty cool how this kind of comparison can make you want to do one thing more than another. This kind of infographic is popular with some other products but it would be really cool to just be able to look at an infographic where you can really easily compare something you want to buy.

Read More

Google Trends: Infographics

I was on Cool Infographics and I saw that they had embedded the graph from google trends. It is really cool how much the interest has gone up in the past two years. I believe that the interest will continue to grow in the future and more advancements will be made in the field. I'm pretty excited to see things like this and how infographics will advance in the future.

Google Trends

Read More

Infographics Used In Marketing

So I know this infographic has nothing to do with my line of study but I really like when companies use infographics in this way.  The pictures are really pretty and it makes me want to go to PF Changs; I've never been but if the food looks half as good as it is in this infographic I'd be happy. This is a really good way of getting people to go to a restaurant. I think things like this would be great for more companies as a way to use infographics as a marketing technique.

Read More

Infographics

I don’t know about this class but in english we are supposed to treat wikipedia like the gritty underbelly of the internet. However, I feel that you can find a lot of important information on wikipedia so this post is going to be all of the really important/interesting things I find on the infographics wikipedia page.

“In 1626, Christoph Scheiner published the Rosa Ursina sive Sol, a book that revealed his research about the rotation of the sun; Infographics appeared in the form of illustrations demonstrating the Sun’s rotation patterns.”

It is commonly believed that cave dwellers were the first infographic creators, I think that is really cool but Christoph’s creations were the first infographics like the ones created today. Other early infographic creators include Florence Nightingale and Carl Ritter.

Nightingales infographic which was presented to Queen Victoria.

The Pioneer Plaque

Infographics were even created to communicate with aliens! Visual data representation is truly universal. It is so cool to consider that as humans we can create something that can, hopefully,  be understood by an extraterrestrial.

Infographics became more popular in the 20th century. “In 1972 and 1973, respectively, the Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11 spacecraft included on their vessels the Pioneer Plaques, a pair of gold-anodized aluminum plaques, each featuring a pictorial message. The pictorial messages included nude male and female figures as well as symbols that were intended to provide information about the origin of the spacecraft. The images were designed by Carl Sagan and Frank Drake and were unique in that their graphical meanings were to be understandable to extraterrestrial beings, who would have no conception of human language.”

Washington DC Metro Map

This picture made me realize I have an infographic hanging in my house.

The Tate Gallery By Tube

This is a picture of the image that is hanging in my house I honestly never even realized that this could be considered an infographic but it is pretty cool.

“Closely related to the field of information graphics is information design, which is the creation of

infographics. Author and founder of the TED, Richard Saul Wurman, is considered the originator of the phrase "information architect" and many of his books, such as Information Anxiety, helped propel the phrase "information design" from a concept to a job category.”

This was actually really cool to find out. It connects two of my favorite parts of my studies this year, and reminds me that I never have time to watch Ted videos lately which sucks.

*I tried to get all of the images on here instead of the links but my laptop froze whenever I tried to insert them*

Read More

Family Project Infographic

So for my family project I want to make some infographics about my family members.  I found this template which will make it easier but if I find a really good story I will try to make my own infographics. 

Read More

I made an infographic.

I made an infographic on easel.ly. Its about this blog; honestly, I don't think its that good but I think using this template was good practice. I tried to keep minimal colors and design because usually when infographics have too much going on it can go wrong very quickly. I don't think I can make a super fancy infographic at this time. I will be making a bunch more soon.

I didn't like the font choices for title. This really doesn't show any actual information but it just kind of described my blog.

Read More

Infographic of Infographics

I like this infographic because unlike the last one this one isn't trying to promote a business. I'm actually really surprised that health is the most popular topics because I haven't actually seen that many of them. This one also helps with the most popular features of an infographic.

Read More

Infographics about infographics

With the new making infofraphics thing I'm doing I thought it would be important to learn what an important infographics needs. The next few posts are going to be infographics about infographics.

Read More

Journalism Analysis + The future of my blog

So I have been debating making this post or not but I have decided to end my analysis because unlike the other things I have been doing it seems to much like a chore. I am going to be focusing more on the infographics and implementing infographics into my family history project which I will be starting in the next 2-3 weeks, or whenever I will see my family again.

Read More

Internet Addiction

Is internet addiction real?
This infographic is really applicable to me and a lot of the people in this class. The loafing happens a lot but I feel that a small addiction can help us a lot. We all spend a ton of time on the internet but how we use it is all different. The internet is a double edged sword and in this class I try my hardest (most of the time) to stay on track.

Read More

Journalism Infographic Competiton.

So I have signed up for a infographic competition for my school. It seems pretty cool; I will be given a set of data and some programs with which I have to create an infographic. It seems like a fun/hard task and I'm pretty excited to do this. Thats all I really know about it but If I learn more I will share it here.

Read More

History Of Prime Time Television: Infographic

So I'm pretty sure that you cant see all the details on this infographic but the first yellow line thing is the News  section. The amount of prometiome news shows grows greatly around the 1990's. The rest of the sections grew a bit as well. There is a slight decline towards today, this is most likely because of the internet but I dont think the amount of news programs will decline much more.

Read More

Wealth Inequality in America: Video Infographic

Not only if this video incredibly visually pleasing it is also really interesting. It is videos like this that show how much we really don't know about whats going on in the country.

Read More