31/03/2011

Malofiej 19 (from my own point of view)

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This year, I've been part of the jury of Malofiej 19, but I'm talking about the awards and summit not as part of the jury, but as any other infographic journalist.

Just a few things as jury: Very special thanks to  Javier Errea (and Álvaro Gil) for calling me to be judging this year. Something that has been very special for me, being part of the students that help in the organization now 10 years ago. Thanks also to the students group for their job. And the rest of the members of the jury: I really enjoyed being and learning with them.

And now, my two cents:



Visualization vs. Ilustration
This is not the first year that I find many people evaluating the awards as a fight of datavis vs. 'classic' infographics. I can't see a fight.  And, specially, this year. There are better and worse infographics. Of any kind. I look at the awarded this edition and I find more 'classic' graphics than visualizations, although these last ones catch the eye very fast.
I don't care how the graphic is done if it is telling a story, gives proper information to the reader and explain what they want to explain in an effective way.
Maybe we have to create a friendly soccer game 'Friends of Amanda Cox vs. Friends of Fernando Baptista'




The New York Times and National Geographic
The big winners of this edition (one more time). Both are the big stars of each of the styles we were talking about. But this success is not a surprise.
Althought I can uderstand Alberto Cairo's question: "And the rest of us, what can we do?", we can expect that the two big media that has devoted such huge resources to create the bests infographics departments of the world will win so many awards.
But some other media, not so big, as Público (Spain) that keeps winning lots of awards with a department of just five. Very talented, but just five. Or IL, the italian magazine. It takes its time, but it's easier to succeed if the media (or at leat the art department) really cares about making good (and not just many) infographics.



My favourite of the year: When we tell storiesd with infographics


In my opinion, infographics in journalistic media should be, above all, journalism. And that's what this infographic published on the Washington Post does. It was awarded with a gold medal.



It's easy to understand: localizes a gun store and places crimes  with guns purchased in that particular store in several miles around it.

Very high journalist value: it tells a story, warns about a problem and show the data to prove it.

It's visual: I don't need the text of the article to understand the problem, how deep it is and many other things around it.

A modern version of the Dr. John Snow's cholera graphic.


All this, thinking at the same time that NYT graphic about the pitcher  Mariano Rivera really deserved the Peter Sullivan award that it got. That's a kind of graphic that will make us all think twice on how are we showing the data. Once again.

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These are my ideas, but here you are some others:

- Javier Errea, presidentof the Spanish Chpater of the SND (in spanish)
- Gert K. Nielsen, on his blog VisualJournalism, who was covering the awards and Summit.

29/03/2011

All the Malofiej 19 awards

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I'll be updating everything with links and images.


IMPRESOS / PRINT

Noticias de Actualidad Inmediata / Breaking News

1CB Bronce / Bronze
Público (España)
Radiografía de la posesión en el clásico
Más sobre este gráfico en Cuatro Tipos / More on this graphic in CuatroTipos: Buenafuente no entiende los gráficos de Público 



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1CC Bronce / Bronze
The New York Times (USA)
Districts Across the Country Shift to the Right


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1CC Bronce / Bronze
Clarín (Argentina)
Radiografía Argentina-Corea del Sur

1DC Plata / Silver 
The New York Times (USA)
Oil Spill: Disaster in the Gulf

1DC Bronce / Bronze
The New York Times (USA)
The 2010 Election

Reportajes / Features

2AA Bronce / Bronze
Al Shabiba (Oman)
Four Decades of Progress


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2AB Plata / Silver 
La Voz del Interior (Argentina)
Bicentenario Argentino


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2AB Plata / Silver 
Público (España)


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2AB Bronce / Bronze
Público (España)
Los siete países implicados en el 'Plan Cóndor'

2AC Plata / Silver 
The New York Times (USA)
As Floodwaters Recede, a Crisis Emerges


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2AC Bronce / Bronze
Folha de S.Paulo (Brasil)
Genealogía de los partidos politicos



2AC Bronce / Bronze
The New York Times (USA)
How the Oil Slick Grew and Dissipated


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2AD Oro / Gold 
National Geographic Magazine (USA)
World of Rivers (Premio Miguel Urabayen Award Best Map)

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2AD Bronce / Bronze
Vanguardia Grandes Temas (España)


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2AD Bronce / Bronze
National Geographic Magazine (USA)
The Battered Gulf Coast

2AD Bronce / Bronze
National Geographic Magazine (USA)
Templo Mayor

2AD Bronce / Bronze
National Geographic Magazine (USA)
Cost of Living


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2AD Bronce / Bronze
Época Magazine (Brasil)
The Changes in Prison Population in Brazil



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2AE Bronce / Bronze
Golden Section Graphics
Wer Wird Präsident for Die Zeit (Germany)


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2BB Bronce / Bronze
Público (Portugal)
Bandeiras Azuis em 2010

2BC Oro / Gold 
The Washington Post (USA)
One Shop, Over 2,500 Crime Guns

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2BC Plata / Silver 
The Washington Post (USA)
One Gun Store's 'Time to crime'

2BC Bronce / Bronze
El Mundo (España)
Gran Vía, Cien años de historia


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2BC Bronce / Bronze
The New York Times (USA)
Stop, Question and Frisk in New York Neighborhoods

2CC Bronce / Bronze
Die Zeit (Germany)
Seid verschlungen, Milliarden!


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2CD Bronce / Bronze
In Graphics (Germany)
Large Scale Projects



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2DA Bronce / Bronze
Superdeporte (España)
33ª Copa del América



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2DA Bronce / Bronze
i (Portugal)
Dicionário do Surf





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2DA Bronce / Bronze
i (Portugal)
Formula 1, Championship review


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2DB Oro / Gold 
Público (España)
Los abuelos de Alonso


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2DB Plata / Silver 
Al Bayan Newspaper (UAE)
F1 Red Bull Car

2DC Plata / Silver 
The New York Times (USA)
Strikeouts (and Questions) Are on the Rise



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2DD Bronce / Bronze
In Graphics (Germany)
Climbing the 8000ers


Más sobre / More on In Graphics
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2EC Plata / Silver 
Clarín (Argentina)
El túnel de San Gotardo



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2EC Bronce / Bronze
Folha de S.Paulo (Brasil)
La vida a bordo de una plataforma petrolera


2EC Bronce / Bronze
O Estado de S.Paulo (Brasil)
Baleia-jubarte



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2EC Bronce / Bronze
O Estado de S.Paulo (Brasil)
Tapuiassauro



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2EC Bronce / Bronze
The New York Times (USA)
A Bewildering Tangle of Options

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2EC Bronce / Bronze
The New York Times (USA)
Orbital Mechanics



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2ED Plata / Silver 
National Geographic Magazine (USA)
Blue Holes of the Bahamas

2ED Bronce / Bronze
Galileu Magazine (Brasil)
As pedras do caminho



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2ED Bronce / Bronze
National Geographic Magazine (USA)
Our Sprawling, Evolving Grid

2ED Bronce / Bronze
National Geographic Magazine (USA)
Japan's Swirling Seas

2EE Bronce / Bronze
KircherBurkhardt for Gas Winner Wertvolle Rohstoffe

2FD Oro / Gold 
National Geographic Magazine (USA)
Gulf of Mexico (Premio Peter Sullivan Award Best of Show)


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2FD Plata / Silver 
National Geographic Magazine (USA)
Barcelona's Natural Wonder



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2FD Bronce / Bronze
IL-Intelligence in lifestyle (Italy)
Materia Prima




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2GB Plata / Silver 
Público (España)
Cuadernos de viajes





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2GB Bronce / Bronze
El Correo (España)
El encierro

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2GC Bronce / Bronze
The New York Times (USA)
A Peek Into Netflix Queues



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2GD Bronce / Bronze
Clarín (Argentina)
Teatro Colón: La trama secreta

2HB Plata / Silver 
Al Bayan Newspaper (UAE)
F1, The Checkered Flag





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2HB Bronce / Bronze
Público (España)
Juegos Olímpicos de invierno

2HC Bronce / Bronze
Clarín (Argentina)
La concentración argentina



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2HC Bronce / Bronze
O Estado de S.Paulo (Brasil)
Geography of voting



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2HC Bronce / Bronze
Il Sole 24 Ore (Italy)
Dentro la Sagrada Familia



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Una columna / One column

3C Bronce / Bronze
La Vanguardia (España)
Data81

Criterios / Criteria

5AB Bronce / Bronze
Expresso (Portugal)
Um exercicio de equilibrismo

5CD Oro / Gold 
In Graphics (Germany)
Transfer Calligraphy

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Portafolios / Portfolios

6BB Bronce / Bronze
Público (España)
Tramas y procesos



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6BC Bronce / Bronze
Clarín (Argentina)
Mundial Sudáfrica 2010

6BD Plata / Silver 
National Geographic Magazine (USA)
Features Portfolio

6BD Bronce / Bronze
IL-Intelligence in lifestyle (Italy)
Analisi Grafica





6BD Bronce / Bronze
IL-Intelligence in lifestyle (Italy)
Piccolo Lord



6BE Plata / Silver 
Golden Section Graphics for Geo (Germany)
Geo Kosmos Weltspiel


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6BE Bronce / Bronze
Golden Section Graphics (Germany)
Features Portfolio Agencies

6CC Plata / Silver
The Washington Post (USA)
Todd Lindeman

6CC Bronce / Bronze
Clarín (Argentina)
Florencia Caramignoli

6CC Bronce / Bronze
The New York Times (USA)
Ford Fessenden

Promocionales / Promotional

7B Bronce / Bronze
Gulf News (UAE)
Burj Dubai, World's tallest skycrapper

7C Plata / Silver 
The Guardian (UK)
Fact File UK



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ONLINE 

Noticias de Actualidad Inmediata / Breaking News

8AA Bronce / Bronze
The Sunday Times (UK)

8AB Bronce / Bronze
NYTimes.com (USA)

8CB Bronce / Bronze
NYTimes.com (USA)

8DA Bronce / Bronze
Associated Press (USA)

8DB Oro / Gold 
NYTimes.com (USA)

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Reportajes / Features

9AA Bronce / Bronze
ultimosegundo.ig.com.br (Brasil)

9AB Bronce / Bronze
NYTimes.com (USA)

9AB Bronce / Bronze
NYTimes.com (USA)

9AB Bronce / Bronze
The Washington Post (USA)

9AB Bronce / Bronze
The Washington Post (USA)

9BA Bronce / Bronze
Népszabadság (Hungary)

9BB Plata / Silver 
NYTimes.com (USA)

9BB Plata / Silver 
NYTimes.com (USA)

9BB Bronce / Bronze
NYTimes.com (USA)

9CB Bronce / Bronze
The Washington Post (USA)

9DA Bronce / Bronze
Al Bayan (UAE)

9DA Bronce / Bronze
The Sunday Times (UK)
Skydiver (Coming down)

9DB Oro / Gold 
NYTimes.com (USA)
(Premio Peter Sullivan Award Best of Show)

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9DB Bronce / Bronze
NYTimes.com (USA)

9DB Plata / Silver 
NYTimes.com (USA)

9DB Plata / Silver 
NYTimes.com (USA)

9DB Bronce / Bronze
NYTimes.com (USA)

9DB Bronce / Bronze
NYTimes.com (USA)

9EB Oro / Gold 
Estadao.com.br (Brasil)

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9EB Bronce / Bronze
NYTimes.com (USA)

9FA Bronce / Bronze
Al Bayan (UAE)

9GB Plata / Silver 
NYTimes.com (USA)

Portafolios / Portfolios

10AB Bronce / Bronze
NYTimes.com (USA)

10BB Bronce / Bronze
BBC (UK)

10BB Bronce / Bronze
veja.com (Brasil)

10BB Bronce / Bronze
Consumer.es (España)




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Criterios / Criteria

11CA Bronce / Bronze
economia.ig.com.br (Brasil)

11CB Plata / Silver 
Estadao.com.br (Brasil)

11CB Bronce / Bronze
Clarín (Argentina)

11DB Plata / Silver 
NYTimes.com (USA)

11DB Bronce / Bronze
The Guardian (UK)

11DB Bronce / Bronze
BBC Dimensions (UK)


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Aplicaciones / Apps

12BA Bronce / Bronze
The Sunday Times (UK)
Whale graphic on iPad

12BB Plata / Silver 
ligaBBVA.com (España)
LigaBBVA HD