Plans

So lately I’ve been think­ing about just what I want Design­ing The News to be and I had a Jerry Maguire moment — an epiphany. There are alot of data visu­al­i­sa­tion blogs out there that con­sis­tently post great exam­ples of data visu­al­i­sa­tion, and for me putting together last weeks post wasn’t fun. If felt like a chore. I have alot of respect for these authors who take the time to put together a qual­ity arti­cle, but I’ve decided I’m not going to do that any more.

DTN’s pri­mary focus now is to cre­ate orig­i­nal info­graph­ics and data visu­al­i­sa­tions. If you like see­ing great exam­ples of data visu­al­i­sa­tion then you should fol­low @designingnews on twit­ter for reg­u­lar updates on fan­tas­tic data related stuff I find around the web, but I will no longer be post­ing these on the blog. I find twit­ter updates to be pas­sive, and great for this sort of content.

So there you go. Hope you enjoy orig­i­nal con­tent as much as I do.

Announc­ing the next visu­al­i­sa­tion project

For those who haven’t heard already HUG United have launched their sec­ond open project, USA by Design­ers, for design­ers to cre­ate art­work around the sub­ject “USA”. Have had this on my radar for the last cou­ple of weeks and since wrap­ping up the last of my free­lance jobs just a cou­ple of hours ago I’ve decided to enter the contest.

Design­ers, illus­tra­tors, pho­tog­ra­phers, design stu­dios, collectives/crews, agen­cies, stu­dents, visual artists… you are wel­come to sub­mit an inno­v­a­tive, cre­ative, excit­ing, per­sonal and exper­i­men­tal art­work inspired by the theme: “WHAT DOES USA MEAN TO YOU?“
We are expect­ing diver­sity and freestyle: all styles of out­stand­ing visual media are wel­come. Selected works will be fea­tured through online exhibit and book (more infor­ma­tion soon).

With the fan­tas­tic data resource Data.Gov I’m sure there’ll be some inter­est­ing stuff to make some really cool visu­als from. Stay tuned.

And another…

Also, for those who haven’t seen the work of the amaz­ingly tal­ented Mike Deal, his data visu­al­i­sa­tions for the Chart­ing The Bea­t­les project are great exam­ples of clean, colour­ful data visu­al­i­sa­tion and his series of posters have inspired me to cre­ate some­thing too. More to come. Lots more.