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...

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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!)"

The famous coffee infographic

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Some time ago (maybe years) I saw this coffee infographic at Lokesh Dhakar's web, maybe you know it.



Since then, I've seen many many graphics inspired by it (sometimes that 'inspired' told in the best of the meaning,s sometimes on the worst)

I've seen it done with cocktails (watch all)

Or about italian coffee

Re-thought as part of an horrible poster

Oe directly in coffee shops (via noisebetweenstations)

The same idea with a different visualization

Or even published in The Independent, mixed with another graphic by David McCandless ans signed as if him was the author.

But, after all these examples, my favourite is still the original one.