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- covering Malofiej 2010 this week

Selected Category: Graphics

Álvaro Valiño from Publico - the leftist paper with an appetite for medals

The graphics department at the paper is made up of young people, who spend a lot of time working and they feel like a family there

How to show the International Trade … Not!

Innovative, maybe - but it’s inaccurate - and you have no idea, when you see this tangled web

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National Geographic makes the graphics noone else can afford

The creation of ‘Wilma the Neanderthal’ is just such a no-efforts-spared-project, which no other magazine in the world could produce. You can make your own guess about the expenses

‘One of the worst graphics the New York Times have published - ever!’

It’s not personal taste - it is science, cognitive psychology, that tells us that the brain can’t handle overly complex graphics

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Sports infographics - is it a dead category?

There is not much new thinking in a category, which traditionally draws a lot of entries.

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Care to explain how a Mega Shark can take a Boeing 747 down?

Better be a bit careful with the shark attack possibility in your graphics the next time a plane disappears over the ocean.

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H1N1-graphics: How to wash your hands (surprise!)

Let’s see … How tough is the concept of washing your hands?

Infographic lessons from the Society of News Design in Buenos Aires

‘Keep it simple’ said Nigel Holmes - ‘Use a pencil’ said Kris Viesselmann - ‘Focus on the content’ Karl Gude said - ‘Keep it simple’ said Alberto Cairo again

Total Eclipse of the Heart - the flowchart

Now - that song is partly responsible for the life I have today ;-)

Another Airbus, flight IY626, crashes near Comoros.

The miracle-baby story will probably be so big, that explanations and infographics won’t be important

El Pais wins the challenge of AF447 graphics

With the two best graphics in the AF447-gallery made by El Pais and another taking fourth place, it’s pretty straightforward to declare El Pais the overall winner.

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Air France AF447 crash - Infographics Gallery

30+ graphics about the AF447 disaster. Sorted in order by how good they are.

AF447 Airbus 330 crashed in the Atlantic - Infographics

228 people have lost their lives in this tragic accident, which we don’t know much about yet. But still we must report what we do know

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Swine flu explained in graphics - collection

The finest selection of Swine Flu graphics - bring your own

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Earthquake graphics can be emotional too

Stories of death and miraculous survival. Can the fact-driven infographics artists learn anything from this?

Too sexy for its own good? Ebb and Flow At the Box Office

At the Malofiej Awards all the judges loved this piece of art. Do you agree it’s the best infographic of the year?

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New York Times sweeps the Malofiej Awards

The graph visualizing the Ebb and Flow of Movies 1986-2008 was awarded Best of Show/Peter Sullivan Award

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Can browser-technology be explained in speech balloons?

What happens when a famous cartoonist is hired to tell you complicated tech-stuff?