For over 23-years Agency S/R has been helping some of the world’s biggest (and smallest!) brands tell their story....
Kürşat Ünsal — Bodrum, Turkey
“Throughout history, pictures have played an important role in communication. From cave paintings to ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, visual representations have been used to convey messages and ideas for thousands of years. In today’s world, we still rely on explainer images to grab people’s attention and quickly convey complex information or thoughts. With just one glance, a picture can communicate what...
Giorgio Guidotti — Rome, Italy
“One notable challenge I have encountered revolves around the task of finding the right balance between clarity, accuracy and visual appeal. The whole information design process requires meticulous consideration and creative problem-solving.”...
SetReset — London, United Kingdom
“There’s a certain obsessive technicality in the craft that I really savour. We use a lot of tools to automate and speed up the design process, but often doing the manual work can be a very cathartic experience. However, it means that you need to be very disciplined and methodical as mistakes can easily slip in and accuracy is crucial...
Alessia Musìo — Milan, Italy
After working for two years as a Data Visualization Designer at H-FARM, she decided to go on her own, independently collaborates with companies, agencies, and professionals worldwide....
Jamie Kettle — London, United Kingdom
“Choosing the right data representation within the design to aid understanding is always the most challenging, as certain chart categories lend themselves to particular data sets more than others.”...
Adam Sharratt — London, United Kingdom
“The biggest challenge is probably the level of detail in which to go into a given subject. Depending on your audience you can range from trying to create an incredibly detailed piece for experts to spend a long time digging into, or a more casual audience which needs information presented in as clear a way as possible to convey the...
Nergis Aşar — Istanbul, Turkey
“Creating a narrative by turning rows of numeric data into visual stories is a big challenge. It requires finding meaningful patterns and expressing them in a visual language that can communicate with a wide audience, which is a difficult but an exciting task.”...
Craig Taylor — Mapzilla — Wales, United Kingdom
“Often the process of encoding data to find the narrative or any hidden relationships is difficult. I work with transit data frequently and understanding why a network behaves the way it does involves untangling complex threads. Questions such as what contextual data influences this network, or how the network was functioning this time last year, all help in unlocking these...
Camila Mayorga — Argentina
“It would be fun to find infographics and explanatory illustrations in different mediums, such as product packaging with the instructions to open it or manuals to use a product, or even as a way of interactive story-telling or scrollytelling.”...
Podpunkt Studio — Warsaw, Poland
“It is at its best when complex issues are presented in a very simple way. This is the biggest challenge — making hard things simple and immediately legible. It’s always good to use Tufte’s metric of data-ink-ratio” or even more simply alway ask yourself the question: is this more legible than if I would just write the numbers in a...
IdN v29n2: Infographic & Data Visualisation — Complexity Clarified
Infographic (or more specifically data visualisation for this issue) is all about turning extremely complicated data into simple and easy reading graphics. It is most often found in editorial designs, when interconnecting ideas may not be so easy to understand, need clarifying, or a certain aspect of the story or data that needed emphasising....