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Infographics: The Power of Visual Storytelling
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Infographics: The Power of Visual Storytelling

by Jason Lankow, Josh Ritchie, Ross Crooks
September 2012
Beginner
263 pages
5h 59m
English
Wiley
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INDEX

A

About Us page

Milo.com
overview of

practices for developing

Actionable ideas

AddThis

Adobe Flash

Adobe Illustrator

Annual reports

Appeal

broad
defined
role in graphic’s priorities
role of design in

Apple Inc.

Appropriateness

audience
content
of decorative and illustrative elements

Art

Automatic updates

B

Bar graph (horizontal)

Bar graph (vertical)

Bateman, Scott

Bateman Study

long term/immediate recall from
results of

Beauty

Big Data

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Bird based communication

Bitly, Inc.

Blogs

Brainstorming

Brand-centric content

applications
defined
report for internal use
for social/pr distribution
static infographics and
types of
in visual storytelling spectrum

Brand-centric infographics

About Us page
annual reports
presentation design
product instructions
visual press releases

Branding

Broad audience

Browsers

Bubble charts

Bullets

C

Campbell, Dave

Categorical data

Causes of mortality, diagram of

Chartjunk

Charts

bubble
graphing relationships in
line
pie

Choropleth

Cisco commercial

Cognitive tests

example of number set, all 7s are different color
example of number set, all same color

Cohesion

Collaborative visualization

Color

Column Five Media

about us page for Milo.com
brainstorming sessions at
on designing internal reports
graphic for PlayStation
graphic for StumbleUpon
graphics for Mint.com
Human Rights Campaign annual report
Index of Economic Freedom
infographic for Home Price Scorecard
Michael J. Fox Foundation 2010 annual report
project for Myxer ...
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