Another infographics example with full of unnecessary data ink. It is a nice picture but nothing about information at all. This is an ideal ‘do not’ case study. You can see the full resolution version here.Thanks to Microsoft.

“The science of infographics is an interesting beast. Infographics’ level of success is always based on how much and how well they communicate their data—the classic form follows function. In this series, I reversed these roles—form is king and dictates what the infographic communicates. Welcome to the world of fictional visual information.”

Chad Hagen creates ‘nonsense’ infographics to sell as an art object. I believe the series is more an aesthetic critic rather than conceptual one because if there is no information mapped into the graphics we can’t talk about any infographics. The rule is simple from my point of view, if there is no information transmitted via forms they are just graphics and almost anything can be graphics. In anyway, they look nice and worth to check.

The World of 100 is an old but great project in a tough field of design: combination of iconography with infographics. I still like it a lot and wanted to reblog it again because of it is simplicity and clarity of design. Not so easy to achieve all the time.

Beautiful timeline infographics from Hyperakt published on New York Times. It is focusing on footbal nations and their clubs, how many times they won the cup or played at the final matches of Champions League. 

Timeline style and highlighting colors are nice and increases the readability of information. (via erennazunal)

Ocean 2012 aims to ensure that the 2012 reform of the EU Common Fisheries Policy stops overfishing, ends destructive fishing practices and delivers fair and equitable use of healthy fish stocks. They have Fish Week events almost all over the Europe; I would love to see one, if you have the chance don’t miss.

Diagram above shows “Global fishing effort of the Spanish Fleet”.

Simple map of state mottos in USA. Minimal and nice color palette.