"A good infographic is worth a thousand words."
Infographics are visual representations of information, data, or knowledge intended to present information quickly and clearly. As a graphic designer I absolutely love to read them, collect them, and create them. It is a great way to break up a page from heavy text and a nice complement to other elements of a page such as photography. My daily source comes to my door in the form of the Wall Street Journal newspaper. Their infographics are so often in their editorial that they published a separate book highlighting the best. Another source is Randy Krum’s Cool Infographics blog that showcases examples of data visualizations and infographics found in magazines, newspapers and on the Internet. Below are from two books in my personal library.
Lena Corwin (artist, author, designer) illustrated cities in a book entitled Maps. It is such a fave of mine, I have framed pages of visited cities.
Ben Gibson and Patrick Mulligan of Pop Chart Lab have produced an in depth book entitled A Visual Guide to DRINK. They take everything from nerdy encyclopedic knowledge to pop culture and create stunning infographic posters for purchase on their website https://popchart.co .
