Sites for the visual explainers
Every community of highly skilled professionals probably has a home on the Web. The infographics people of journalism are no exception.
Thanks to Katie Ratcliffe, who runs infographics production in the Asia-Pacific for Agence France-Presse, we now have a good roundup of sites and blogs for news graphics, via The Editors Weblog. If you teach design in a journalism program, these sites are wonderful resources for your students.
A couple that Ratcliffe missed:
- Information Aesthetics (blog)
- xBlog: The visual thinking weblog
- AIGA (not news people, but they host the fabulous AIGA Design Archives)
From Ratcliffe’s list:
- Visual Editors
- News Page Designer
- Society for News Design
- News Artists’ Organization
- albertocairo.com (Alberto is one of the great online infografistas)
- Nixlog (Paul Nixon’s blog)
Some of these sites focus largely on printed information graphics, and there’s a heavy bias toward newspapers. But you can find some examples of online work here and there, more on some sites than others.
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