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antimega, jamescronin, OwenBlacker, Preoccupations, and 476 other people added this photo to their favorites.
blech (38 months ago)
I tweaked this a bit so it worked better on my tumblr. It seems to be popular.
Neven Mrgan (38 months ago)
*Golf clap*
michal migurski (38 months ago)
*Slow clap*
shashashasha (38 months ago)
nice
pauldwaite (38 months ago)
I’m with ya. I’m pretty sure the price pie chart on the iPad one was just wrong, too.
Pketh (38 months ago)
Bravo!
stephthirion (38 months ago)
good point. this style is closer to "nicely presented numbers" than "visualizations". but it can be informative nonetheless.
j_heftmann (38 months ago)
I get it. You're angry.
davidmccabe (38 months ago)
Thank you!
AisleOne (38 months ago)
Someone's bitter.
Alanataylor (38 months ago)
What about onlineschools.org? Their infographics teach me stuff.
tlossen (38 months ago)
brilliant
-dario (38 months ago)
spot on.
Phil Gyford (38 months ago)
AisleOne - no, I'm not bitter. "Bitter" implies that I resent other peoples' success in getting attention for their work.
I don't make infographics, so I'm not bitter that lots of the "infographics" that get attention seem like poor examples of the art, if they're examples at all. I'm annoyed about that, as someone who likes good infographics, but I'm not bitter.
Abscond (38 months ago)
Ha, get the idea from Stef's tweet? I actually started doing the exact same thing when I saw it, granted nowhere near as good as this (I was going for extreme 3D marble keynote effects), before realising I was meant to be working.
James John Malcolm (38 months ago)
It's funny because it's true!
Matt Tuley - Vizstorm (38 months ago)
Ha! Love it!
gilest (38 months ago)
phil++
moleitau (38 months ago)
phil+++
Life's Replay (38 months ago)
Thank you. I love the idea of an infographic but recently they've just been so damn useless. I always appreciate it when somebody opens their mouth about things that other people just appear to accept.
pannier [deleted] (38 months ago)
Good laugh. Instant fave.
logicelf (38 months ago)
robot makes music (38 months ago)
Just because it's an infographic it doesn't mean the information has to be good or useful, just graphical. :D
Stefan Berndt (38 months ago)
Instead of wasting time for your »infographic« it would be more helpful to give help and hints on – in your opinion – useless infographics.
David G Photography (38 months ago)
Very good and true. Perhaps we should require a license or some sort of training before we set people free with graphing software.
castlechat (38 months ago)
Quit your whining bitching you're just jealous a medium in which designers are flourishing in.
So you didn't hop on it. Good for you.
Percentage of how much I give a shit:
0%
the_Craigen (38 months ago)
Ah, castlechat, but you gave enough of a shit to comment, proving that your claim of not giving a shit was full of shit.
fabgeekling (38 months ago)
LOL! LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE THIS!
I actually blogged about the iPad one for the misuse of the pie chart! fabgeekling.blogspot.com/2010/04/not-understa nding-data-i...
And yes this has certainly given some spotlight to designers.... BUT just because you're a designer, doesn't mean you're good information designer. Information design has to focus on the relevance of the data not just pretty pictures.
Phil Gyford (38 months ago)
I didn't even look at the iPad graphic long enough to work out exactly why it wasn't all that, so thanks for the write-up fabgeekling. Now I know!
alternatekev (38 months ago)
My word for these are "infauxgraphics."
brentter (38 months ago)
hahahaha... so true... nice job
Zoonie (38 months ago)
Good god - Phil you're going to hit 100k for this image. Freaky.
nomorefluffybunny (38 months ago)
Go Phil :-) You was never bitter...
Also, I like "infauxgraphic" very much.
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sbyrnefraser (38 months ago)
The key is to distinguish between Graphic design and Information graphic design. The former aim’s is to make something look beautiful, the latter to convey idea’s, information and data.
The two often get confused, especially by designers who don’t understand the difference between the two.
spdorsey (38 months ago)
You MUST post this here:
www.flickr.com/groups/datavisualization/
This is fantastic, I love it.
Nils Geylen (38 months ago)
Disagree. But @sbyrnefraser (two comments up) said it all: don't mix infographics with graphic design.
alternatekev (38 months ago)
@sbyrnefraser I'd actually argue it's the opposite, that it's a confused generation of designers who believe that graphic design is just the pursuit of beauty - that's the problem. One of art's pursuits is beauty, but design in any form should always be primarily about solving a communication problem. If the communication method is beautiful, then all the better.
Designers who think all they need to do is make something easy to look at are designers who miss the mark in understanding that design is about making something understandable, and this translates to graphic design, user interface design and information design.
Anyone, designer or otherwise, who wades into information design without knowing the ground rules and when to break them is embarking on a failed expedition, to mix my metaphors a bit.
Graphic design has never been, and never will be about "making things beautiful." If you believe that, then you have much to learn. The person who made the iPad graphic suffered from a misguided mindset that they can copy the look of something, and recreate its impact.
The popularity of so many useless infographics - the ones lampooned in this Flickr post - is indicative of just how many people feel design is simply the art of making something beautiful.
NathanTorrence (38 months ago)
Amen - @alternatekev
Reading the comments above about graphic design vs. info design I was about to write the same thing you did. You just beat me to it, and did a much better job. Anyone involved in visual design is supposed to be helping to convey a certain message, not just take a message and make it pretty.
sethotron (38 months ago)
exactly, @alternatekev. Design should continue to be a guiding set of logical principles that help you solve problems, as it has been since the dawn of time. Graphic design merely took those logical principles and applied them towards the organization of the printed page, but I'd say that those principles (like balance and form) preexisted their naming, just like every other scientific discovery.
Really the only true beauty in 'design' is the that which is derived from the organization of chaos...all the other aesthetic trappings are just that.
fabgeekling (38 months ago)
@alternatekev is right. Design is for purpose, Art is for beauty.... but it doesn't matter if it's a website design or an infographic, it should be both aesthetically pleasing and serve it's purpose well. Many infographics forget the purpose part, and simply want to make the data "look nice".
_JMS (38 months ago)
You, sir, are a genius.
b'jesus (38 months ago)
Love it
scottdunn (38 months ago)
Funny!
chai wallah (38 months ago)
THANK YOU. Down with woeful infographica!
Matatias 2 (38 months ago)
G-R-E-A-T in these times of long gif images that are nothing but a bunch of useless information illustrated by useless stuff. I'm printing this and putting in our wall now (I work doing infographics and "infographics" in a newspaper).
rubikluk (38 months ago)
Agree: 99%
F**k, I like colourful stuff: 1%
abugintheground (38 months ago)
haha feltron...?
Nicky Gibson (38 months ago)
I'm guilty of this exact thing!
But i added stuffed Monsters for extra seriousness ;)
www.monster-munch.com/thanks-for-popping-by/
( Hey Phil - Poke Nicky here )
laura_rainbow_1983 (38 months ago)
very good :)
jessamyn (38 months ago)
<3