David McCandless, Infographics Genius ~ Will

by blkthread

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Award winning writer, designer, author, David McCandless is taking infographics and putting it on the worlds graphic design stage as a highly respectable form of design. At first glance Davids’ work is clean, bold, bright, colourful and balanced, graphically well refined and aesthetically pleasing. When traditionally graphs and grids bring to mind textbooks or business reports, landing your eyes on something that looks like a piece of modern art (David never studied graphic design) its a breath of fresh air, it creates intrigue and draws you in like a window in a classroom.

David touches on issues from climate change to drugs to politics and time travel in tv and movies. On his website, Information is Beautiful… http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/ , he touches on a broad range of topics some important some maybe not but either way you find yourself reading through it, learning though remaining entertained through well chosen words and of course the graphic layout and design. The layout designs bring fresh new ways of ordering importance of information, keeping things in proportion and perspective, revealing an underlining story or pattern. Its graphic design meets information design to create a informative visual tool.
For me this is graphic design for a difference at its best, its design allows important information to quickly and easily processed for the average Jo. In this day and age information and statistics are such a powerful tool, this proves with good design it can be used for good on a mass scale.