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Innovative Individuals: Juan Carlos Sánchez
Juan Sánchez was the mastermind behind El Mundo’s graphic coverage of the Haiti earthquake that I highlighted earlier in the week, but his name has also been on countless other award-winning infographics. You might have seen his project, “Valencia Street Circuit,” which was awarded a bronze at the 2008 International Infographic Malofiej awards. We are honored to choose Juan for this week’s title as “Innovative Individual” for his excellent infographic work over the years.
Advice from Alberto Cairo on animated infographics
In my quest to read everything related to multimedia and interactivity in preparation for my master’s thesis, I came across this excellent Q&A with UNC assistant professor Alberto Cairo titled, “Animated infographics and online storytelling: Words from the wise.” Although this interview was initially published in the Online Journalism Review in 2007, arguably all of his statements still hold true today. If you missed this article, make sure to read it now to get some great infographics inspiration from one of the best in the field.
Five examples of innovative step graphics
Step graphics are a type of interactive presentation, which present a variety of graphics organized sequentially in steps or nodes. Illustrations, 3D models, animations and explanatory text can all be combined across a variety of frames to tell a story. Best used for successive information, these presentations excel at breaking down complex information into visual, digestible bites for users to learn at their own pace.
Create your own infographic with a few clicks using GunnMap
Cool Infographics, a great blog by Randy Krum, recently featured GunnMap, an application that allows users to upload their own data, customize the colors and then download the resulting infographic. It seemed too good to be true, so I tested it out for II readers to find out if this could really be the answer for quick-and-easy graphics. Although it has it’s limitations, I have decided that GunnMap is definitely worth checking out.
A look at the SND30 infographic winners
SND30 awards were announced yesterday, rewarding work done in 2008. I was particularly interested in seeing the Infographic winners, but unfortunately they did not provide links nor were they easy to find after intense search efforts. I was successful in finding 9 of the 41 winners, which I have listed along with the brains behind the work. These graphics are all innovative examples with beautiful designs. Congrats to all, and let me know if you can find the links to any of the other winners!
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