Data Visualization, Infographic Design, Visual Thinking, Product Development and Marketing professional fascinated by good infographics. Always looking for better ways to get the point across.
Series of info graphics for brockhaus, a large encyclopedia publisher from germany. The info graphics visualize several statistics and informations of topics like: the worlds highest mountains and their first ascent, the languages of the world, comets close to the earth, world oceans, ecology, media evolution and so on. One graphic shows the evolution of the world population from 1950 to 2050. Six transparent pages (one for each 20-year period) overlap each other.
These are some beautiful designs. I’m sorry an English version isn’t available.
The Cheetah infographic introduces to you nature’s speed machine from Jacob O’Neal (jacobneal.com). Learn about how each body part is important to the Cheetah and why you don’t want to be on this mammal’s menu.
Did you know that cheetahs can accelerate from 0 to 60 MPH faster than a Ferrari? The amazing cheetah is the perfect example of natural specialization. They’re made for speed. Such a beautiful animal deserves a closer look!
This is definitely a cool infographic design! I really like this use of the animated GIF image file format. Seriously! I REALLY like this design. Animated GIFs have been used and abused for decades, but the use of animation here is done in a way that is very visually appealing. It actually adds to the value of the content, and catches your attention.
One issue with animated GIF image file infographics is social sharing. Not all social media and photo sharing services can support the animated format, so you also need a static JPG image as a backup for anyone that want to share with those service.
Eric Enge, Author and SEO GuruRecently, I had an amazing opportunity to interview Eric Enge about SEO & Infographics. Eric has incredible insight in the world of SEO as a consultant, author, speaker and entrepreneur.
Eric Enge is the CEO of Stone Temple Consulting, a consulting company that provides a full range of Internet marketing optimization services including: strategic business planning, on page search engine optimization, link building, content optimization, conversion optimization, social media optimization, user engagement, and pay-per-click campaign development and optimization. Eric is co-author of the book The Art of SEO, a speaker at numerous search marketing events, and a contributing author to Search Engine Land, Search Engine Watch, and SEOmoz.
The interview covers some of the hottest topics that impact the infographics design industry today:
Infographics as part of a content marketing strategy
How Google’s changes to their algorithm impacts infographics
Infographics relevance and accuracy
Using attribution links, anchor text and embed code for infographics
Infographics on Pinterest
You can read the complete interview on the InfoNewt blog
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In June of this year, we published an infographic listing all of the sizing information for images on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and Pinterest. It was a wildly successful piece of content, totally blowing our expectations out of the water. Unfortunately, while its popularity has flourished, nearly every social network instituted changes to their image sizes, rendering most of the information on the infographic out of date.
We knew we needed to update the information on the cheat sheet, but we weren’t comfortable with simply adjusting one or two figures on the blog post and leaving it as-is. We’d also received a lot of feedback, both on the design and information it contained. We decided to redesign the entire sheet and incorporate a few more social networks.
We also decided to permanently redirect the old sheet here, so that shared tweets, pins, likes, and so on, would lead to the correct sizing dimensions. Additionally, as sizing changes are implemented across social networks, we’ll actively update this sheet – meaning that if you use the embed code at the bottom to share this sheet on your own site, the image will automatically update with changes as they are rolled out. No more out-of-date information.
I love that all of the sizes are shown in correctly proportional rectangles! Based on their claim, this infographic should also update correctly as they revise it to match the ongiong changes from all of the social networks.
Some color of the official logos of the different social media networks at each section break would have been helpful to the reader. The light typeface used at each section break is hard to distinguish from the rest of the design.
Are you headed to CES in Las Vegas this week? Do you know how to protect your electronic devices? The Is Your Device Safe at CES? infographic from Novell shows us some heartbreaking stats.
The Numbers Don’t Lie
You don’t think it will ever happen to you, do you? Well, think again. With a laptop or tablet being stolen every 53 seconds you can literally lose your mobile device at any minute. Oh, and by the way, you’re losing a lot more than that precious device: sensitive company documents, passwords, credit card information, etc. So what are you doing to protect that phone/iPad/laptop? Apparently very little as only 4% of smartphones have Mobile Device Management security installed on them. Take a look at a few of the scary numbers and some ideas you could implement to protect your device and your precious content.
This design is long, but there’s a lot of information to share. I like the simple color scheme, and there’s some really good data included in here. However, most of the statistics are shown in text only, which is disappointing.
I’ve said it many times here on Cool Infographics. Big fonts are not data visualizations. You want your readers to comprehend and remember the numbers you are showing them in your infographic design. To be successful at that you need to put the numbers into context for the reader, by visually comparing them to another value or showing them the scale of the value.
Tomorrow’s World infographic from the BBC maps out many of the future predictions from experts onto a timeline of the next 100 years, and lays out odds on how likely each prediction may come true.
As we begin a new year, BBC Future has compiled 40 intriguing predictions made by scientists, politicians, journalists, bloggers and other assorted pundits in recent years about the shape of the world from 2013 to 2150.
They range from the serious to the fanciful, from the exciting to the petrifying.
And to get a gauge on how likely they are to happen, we asked the special bets department at British betting firm Ladbrokes to give us their odds on each prediction coming true.
The predictions are color-coded by category, placed along the timeline and finally shown in the horizontal direction based on the odds. This is a really good design, and I like the custom icons for each prediction.
Found on CNET thanks to a Tweet from Dave (@Drodgerson)!
The Cancer in the US infographic addresses the current state of the country with its fight against cancer. MesotheliomaHelp.net created this infographic to inspire people to donate to help find the cure of cancer. Find an organization you would like to donate to here.
MesotheliomaHelp.net is dedicated to fighting cancer and providing helpful resources to mesothelioma patients and their caregivers. The purpose of this infographic is to share importance of us focusing on a cure for cancer and asking people to support the organizations that are working hard to find one. Please go to http://www.mesotheliomahelp.net/beat-cancer to donate to your favorite cancer charity today!
I really like this design style and color scheme. It keeps a serious tone overall to go with the serious topic, the visuals are simple and clear, and the story path is easy to read from top-to-bottom. The light gray paper backgound texture also provides clear boundaries to the infographic when displayed on a white background (like this blog). The lined up person icons to represent “1,500 people die each day” would be easier to understand with ten icons in each row.
I like idea behind the icons and the stacked grids of squares in “Cases of Cancer by Type”, but I’m unclear as to the values being visualized. It appears to be the percentage of deaths of of the total cases of each type of cancer, but that percentage value isn’t shown anywhere. The rows of squares should also be ten squares across to make the visualization easier to understand.
The “Mortality from Cancer” visualization is a basic line chart, but that visual does such a great job of telling the story of the overall trend over time. I think this particular section should have been bigger, since that data is so impressive.
The footer should include a copyright statement, and the URL to the original, full-size infographic on the MesotheliomaHelp.net site.
This visual comparison of NFL Video Screens was uploaded by reddit user dbeat after the announcement of the new video display being built for the Houston Texans’ Reliant Stadium.
I would have liked to see a link to the data behind all of the screen sizes, but this visual representation does a great job of telling one story really well. The readers can easily find their favorite team, and understand how they stack up.
I have heard it argued that clean water has been the single greatest medical advancement in mankind’s history. With effects including longer lifespan, reducing diseases, reducing birth defects and generally improving health, it’s easy to undertand how important clean water is. Water Changes Everything is an infographic promotional for the Charity Water organization.
I’ve started the “Start 2013 Clean” campaign to raise $1,000 for Charity Water from Cool Infographics readers. Start off 2013 right, and help me support making the world a better place.
Almost a billion people live without clean drinking water. We call this the water crisis. It’s a crisis because it only starts with water — but water affects everything in life.
Health. Education. Food security. And the lives of women and children, especially.
We can end the water crisis in our lifetime. But first we have to let everyone know it’s happening. Learn how water changes everything — and share this with everyone you know.
It was an infographic map design by John Snow in 1854 that led to the discovery that a cholera outbreak in Soho, London was geographically tied to the location of a water well. At the time, the popular belief was that cholera was airborne, and people would become sick by breathing “bad air.” But John Snow’s early data visualization of reported cases was used to convince local officals to shut down the potentially contaminated well (by removing the handle). This action is commonly credited with ending the epidemic.
Original map made by John Snow in 1854. Cholera cases are highlighted in black.
Video was designed by Jonathan Jarvis, who also designed the Crisis of Credit infographic video, and the voiceover is Kristen Bell.
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