Experimenting with some new numbers from our friends at Commercial type this week.
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Making your charts magenta and your numbers big.
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How to make a Facebook Wealth Porn Graphic
Step 1: Make a Bar Chart
Step 2: Get a blender
Step 3: Put the bar chart in the blender. Blend until smooth.
Step 4: Pour into a tall glass and top with a pinch of de stijl.
Bon appetite!
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Who says America doesn’t innovate? The iTunes store offers more than half a billion apps, and the camera category has split into dozens of sub-branches. Hit the right magical mix of photo features and you, like Instagram, might get $1 billion from Facebook.
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From Pasteboard to Publication
From pasteboard:
To publication:
The lengthy story:
This week, diddling with the Opening Remarks graphics about Americans’ perception of doing business in China.
The numbers are fairly simple: the results of 218 American companies surveyed by the Chamber of Commerce in China from 2011 and 2012. Wanting to show how dissatisfaction has grown from year to year and with only a dozen numbers I liked the idea of doing a slope chart but only had a small space to work with.
So I tried percentage changes, point changes, bar charts, numbers as bar charts… (the few pie charts and stacked charts seen on my pasteboard are for a second complimentary chart).
In the end I made 8 individual slope charts and extruded them. I’m rather happy with the form—the slants are prominent due to color and dimension and easily comparable. The more drastic the slope the more drastic the opinion change.
Stay tuned next week for more neon charts in 3-D.
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Evan and I wrote a few things for the How To issue this week! Including, the very essential how-to-how-to-graphic. Though it’s unlikely you’ll be called upon to “plan a party while shipwrecked”or “nail an interview, nude” you should always be prepared. Simply match a tricky situation to an ordinary task and find asolution to whatever the office may throw at you. Be warned, however, that onerow involved no testing at all. We won’t tell you which (hint: we couldn’treally figure out these “pull-ups”).
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How to Make a BusinessWeek Graphic
The seven step process to our Bo Xilai’s family tree/network diagram mash-up.
Step 1: Panic
Step 2: Research and organize notes
Step 3: Connect the dots
Step 4: Start designing. Fact Check!
Step 5: Over think the design. Take a walk. Break for coffee.
Step 6: Go back to the original design. Finesse Continue fact checking. Race to deadline.
Step 7. Post-office drinks.
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