Research: Information is Beautiful - Learning How To Visualise

The website, Information is Beautiful, is really helpful in just opening my imagination to the different ways to present data, particularly the page Learning How To Visualise. 


The author of this website, David McCandless, shares his experience and ideas on projects he has worked on and the development process for them. He has created a webpage called Creating The Book which outlines his general approach to creating his infographics. 


McCandless states that, "Personally I feel that most data needs a degree of sculpting, shaping, editorialising to make it approachable, or useable, or to allow the interesting story or pattern inside to be revealed". 

some examples

Timelines: TimeTravel in TV and Film
Yup, we went through 36 drafts of this. Yes, I am a rampant perfectionist. Yes I can be difficult to work with.




Information is Agonizing: Designing The Cover of the book
Creating the UK cover for Information Is Beautiful was an agonizing yet gloriously creative pain in the ass involving over 90 – yes nine-ty – different versions.

Versioning: Because Every Design Is Good For Something
How do you flag and label 142 countries on a single map without choking the result? With great difficulty.




Executing The Exos
200 million stars, 26,000 light year, over 500 planets discovered outside our solar system. How do you visualize that?