2012: the year of Malofiej 20

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The Malofiej Awards, the most important awards-summit-workshops-party of infographics in this world, is becoming 20 in 2012. As John Grimwade says and malofiej20.com remebers "You must attend Malofiej at least once in your life". And this is the right time, as the infographics Mecca is preparing a great program of high-class events to commemorate its anniversary.

Texas and weather graphics: the Dallas Morning News instant classic

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I've seen today a superb job by one of myy favourites infographics journalists, Jay Carr from the Houston Chronicle. It was a graphic showing the evolution of weather in Texas.

But I had a problem. It resembles too much to an example I loved form a neighbour newspaper some years ago, The Dallas Morning News.

The Functional Art: all you need to know about infographics, coming next summer

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If you're reading this blog, you may know who Alberto Cairo is. Former graphics director at elmundo.es, infographics professor at Chapel Hill, Infographics director at Globo (Brazil) and, most recently, infographics professor at the University of Miami.
After this (useless) introduction, there's something you need to know: his most recent book, El Arte Funcional, is being translated to english and The Functional Art will be available in summer 2012.

Amanda Cox: "Shaping data for news"

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Amanda Cox - Eyeo Festival 2011 from Eyeo Festival on Vimeo.

A very interesting video of Amanda Cox (one of the persons I admire the most in the world of infographics) talking abut her work (and the work of all the infographics team)  in The New York Times.
I think this introduction is more than enough to know this video will be interesting and I don't need to encourage you to watch it!

PS. Thanks to Amanda for her kind words. I can die happy now :)

Why infographics are a good business for media

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I was hired by lainformacion.com two years and a half ago, a just-online young information site in Spain. I came from Publico, a print national newspapers. My task at lainformacion.com was leading the New Narratives Department. I could call it the infographics department, but the concept it's wider than that.
By then, I always had thought than infographics were very useful for readers, give very good image to the media and helped to build that scarcity that made people buy one newspaper and not another. What I didn't knew and was about to discover, is that infographics could become so important for media, not just in terms of quality, journalism and image, but also in visits and time in page.

The best graphics of Spain & Portugal - August 2010/August 2011

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Público, La Verdad de Murcia, Heraldo de Soria, Yorokobu, elpais.com and eitb.com have been chosen the best designed media of Spain and Portugal in the 8th edition of the ÑH awards, the prizes awarded by the Spanish Chapter of the SND which select the best design of the iberian countries. You can see the complete list at the web of the SND-E. But here you will find the infographics awards (and it will be updated)

NEWSPAPERS


Breaking news


Silver
El Correo (Bilbao)
La Vuelta looks to the Basque Country again

Mention
Heraldo de Aragón (Zaragoza)
Bad synchronization of the traffic lights

Features

Gold
Público (Madrid) - Samuel Granados
Flamenco. From prosecution to salvation

Those in infographics... and in Google+

Google+ is the new Twitter, the new Facebook... or not.
But, anyway,is the new social network everybody talks about.
If you are one of those early adopters already enjoying it, here you are a list with some people related with infographics you can find in Google+ to create your Infographics circle

InGraphics vol.02

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Golden Section Graphics, the Germany-based infographics studio, has reeased the second issue (third counting the Berlin wall special) of their already famous just-graphics magazine InGraphics.

This issue is released after being one of the big winners of the last Malofiej awards, some of the InGraphics products were awarded, including a gold medal for the transfer market calligraphy stunning work.

So, what to expect from the second issue? The same as the first one, a good bunch of high quality works: 3d, diagrams, maps, visualizations...

(Continue clicking on more information...)

Visual.ly finally released

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There was something that many of us were expecting from a long time, the final release of Visual.ly, a web which tries to be the big showcase of infographics and visualizations.  And it has been finally inaugurated.
Anyway, many of us (me included), feared that it can become a bunch of infoposters or tower-graphics.

At first sight,  I see just a few things that I really like, with many decorated texts on an hypervertical format.

Four things you should see if you are an infographics person

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You should visit these five links if you really like infographics, visualizations, visual narratives or however you call it.

10 significant visualisation developments: January to June 2011
Visualising Data

These frists months of 2010 has been really interesting for the graphics world: good works, tools, statements, discussions... Ten of the top worth-visiting liks of the year on VisualisingData.

22 free tools for data visualization and analysis
Computer World

Making graphics and visualizations is getting easier day by day (the quality of interest of those is another discussion). The technological barrier is falling down and now you don't even have to pay for licences. People got plenty of tools online, free and easy to use. From the ones by  the omnipresent Google  (Fusion Tables, Refine...) to others, independent but interesting like Impure.
Here you got a good list with a good bunch of them.

Visual pieces by Antonio Pasagali
lainformacion.com

Antonio Pasagali is Art Director at lainformacion.com, the news web I work for. He has published a couple of Visual Pieces, with really nice aesthetics, but also informative. Something different. And that's a good thing.
1. Pedestrians in New York
2. Madrid-BCN: train and plane

The functional art
Alberto Cairo

Alberto Cairo's book (called in spanish 'El arte funcional' and which could be translated as 'The Functional Art') has become famous before being in the shops. And now it's on its last steps before being released. By the moment, we know that it will be published between spetember and novembre, 2011, at least in spanish. And also what does Nigel Holmes thinks about it:

Welcome to Alberto’s world. Cairo has done it all here: history, theory, practice, examples. And he's done it brilliantly. It's the most comprehensive and sensible book yet on real-world information graphics; we won’t need another for a long time (or until he writes his next one!)"