By Adam Valvasori - Values Manager.Hello it's 2010 - welcome to a "future" without jetpacks but a tonne of information to wade through everyday!
For Activists like you, it can sometimes be difficult to access concise and clear information. Your time is precious and your anxious to do something and you can't be expected to read through the entire back catalogue of Scientific Reports of the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
That's why the Information is Beautiful website is genius and one of my most frequented bookmarks. Its the brainchild of David McCandless an independent data journalist and information designer from the UK.
As you can see from the above image they take complex information like the Haiti Earthquake Aftermath and design it into a Visual Map that's easy to understand. They even have competitions to see who can design the information most beautifully. After all that's what design is for!
Check them out! They've also done an amazing jobs at simplifying:
- The difference between the Left and Right of politics
- Climate Deniers (boo-hiss) vs the Scientific Consensus
- What Chinese Online Censorship looks like
- What kind of "scientists" are the ones who disagree with the consensus about Climate Change
- Scrutinizing The Guardian Newspaper's Deadly Drug Reports vs Actual Deaths
- And they also have fun with The Beatles and What makes a Good Online Dating Photo
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