The Narrative Eros of the Infographic
February 9, 2012 8:10 AM Subscribe
Visuals are a notoriously slippery medium. Thousands of minute decisions (or non-decisions) go into a graphic’s formulation—everything from color to scale to line thickness to use of symbols. Seemingly simple questions of graphical form can have powerful implications.
A few weekends ago, I was making maps for a presentation that my wife was going to give, and I found that something as simple as using or not using the same color on two different maps did a lot to convey or fail to convey the correlation between two factors.
I could easily see infographic art requiring an ethical code of best practices.
Also, this is a fascinating article. Thanks for posting it.
posted by gauche at 9:16 AM on February 9, 2012
A few weekends ago, I was making maps for a presentation that my wife was going to give, and I found that something as simple as using or not using the same color on two different maps did a lot to convey or fail to convey the correlation between two factors.
I could easily see infographic art requiring an ethical code of best practices.
Also, this is a fascinating article. Thanks for posting it.
posted by gauche at 9:16 AM on February 9, 2012
'The chart is a lonely hunter' is a pretty damn great title.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 4:34 PM on February 9, 2012 [3 favorites]
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 4:34 PM on February 9, 2012 [3 favorites]
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