Unfortunatly I never had the opportunity to do client work on an infography, but it seems to be one of the most challenging task for a graphic designer. The perfect infography must synthetize complex information in a simple visual representation, which is not easy. The following examples take information architecture to another level by making it beautiful.
1. Ancient Hebrew Cosmology
2. The modern listener guide
3. Missions to Mars
4. Food infography
(I resized this one for the blog, click the link to see the original one that looks much better)
5. The hierachy of Digital distractions
6. Water footprint
7. Charting the Beatles
8. 60 years of Federal Republic of Germany
9. Big Brothers
10. Asphalt jungle
11. Jules & Jim
12. Harmony of the Gospels
13. Genealogy of Pop/Rock music
14. Seasonal food chart
15. Mobile phones evolution
16. 3 months crocheting
17. Feltron Annual Report
18. Customer’s mailstream
19. How much water do you use?
20. What causes Jet Lag?
21. The largest bankruptcies in history
22. How the fire spread
23. Through the Gyre
24. China
25. The Corporation
26. Taxonomy of team names
27. How memory forms
28. How Google manages data
29. Kodak workflow diagram
30. US data consumption in one day
About the Author
Mirko Humbert
Mirko Humbert is the editor-in-chief and main author of Designer Daily and Typography Daily. He is also a graphic designer and the founder of WP Expert.