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Selected Category: Malofiej2010

stefan

‘There are millions of clients out there’

You will even make your editor-in-chief happy, because he can sell your infographic services to clients in order to pay for the news

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thomasshow

The official trailer for the Thomas Molén Show

His personal trailer – complete with deep voice-over and sound of choppers will be a classic in the Malofiej collective memory

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franchi1

Young star has reintroduced the big graphics spread into newsmagazines

Fransesco Franchi is Art Director of IL Magazine and notes a lot of success for the big and information-heavy infographics

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mochilla

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

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svetlana-president

President of the Jury: Why the amount of Malofiej gold medals was halved this year

Judges decided to seek out only the truly perfect graphics – and not to argue too much about the medals

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ivan-kemp

The Graphics Editor from Hell – (if you’re a graphics consultant)

A man with no other loyalties than the standard of the work and with no mercy towards people going the easy way.

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thomas-molen

-’I'm a visual junkie – an infographics Nerd’. Meet the best infographic artist in the world

Thomas Molén is open for all kind of different methods to tell the story

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bronze2009

Make it online and wait a year to win the Malofiej Best of Show

What we have here is a graphic that has moved from bronze to Best of Show by going online and waiting a bit

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tracking-1540

Malofiej 18 Awards – the entire list with all medals in 2010

9 golds, 51 silver medals and 96 bronze medals

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malofiej-best-of-show

Malofiej ‘Best of show’ goes to a Swedish paper

Thomas Molén went ahead and made a very clean and elegant online-graphic, where you can see who voted for who in the European Song Contest

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hannahfairfield

Hannah Fairfield speaks to the crowd

- ‘We’re inventors – we’re creators. And that’s the most important thing about what we do. And I think we should welcome failure every once in a while’

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wilma-neanderthal

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

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opening

Malofiej 18 – the official opening of the summit

What a crowd we are. I’m estimating that we’re close to 150 people participating in this years summit.

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ipadtraveler

The future of magazines and infographics on iPad

Really rough sketches and ideas, but still a fantastic voyage into the future and the features

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snow

It’s snowing in Pamplona

Show this to your boss and family, who might suspect you went to Pamplona to live on infographics, red wine and sunshine all week

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workshop

Workshops at Malofiej – ‘Show Don’t Tell’ and ‘Interact, Don’t Show’

They work hard and compete with each other to present the best or most innovative solution about visualizing the Chillida-leku Museum.

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boxoffice

‘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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judgesfair

Can a judging process be fair?

Every competition has its own system, and I guess every judge has their own ideas about how a perfect system should be.

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judgesvideo

Meet the judges at Malofiej 18

Put some faces to the judges of this years competition, while they listen to the rules of judging

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malofiej-sports

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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malofiejjudges

Malofiej 18 sets a new record with entries – but is it truly global?

the input from different cultures into one global pot of infographics is what makes such a competition stand out.

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The programme of Malofiej 18 is released

Adults only conference (graphics)

The big black keyhole on the front of the Malofiej Conference programme this year promises the audience some special views – some startling insights – some hidden secrets revealed at last?

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malofiej18

Malofiej 18 is coming

We might get a party going, and it will be just awesome to meet up with you all

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