How to show the International Trade … Not!
Innovative, maybe - but it's inaccurate - and you have no idea, when you see this tangled web
Sometimes the world are so chaotic, that a little tidying-up is in place.
When the Swiss comedian Ursus Wehrli decided to clean up pieces of art, he transformed the art into infographics …
Infographics are easier to understand. Infographics looks like you’re in control. Infographics are clean.
At least this holds true for the infographics in current fashion - generated by computers, consisting of geometric patterns.
I think it’s time to go look at some of the infographics produced a couple of years ago by Jaime Serra. He mixed the graphics and the arts in a way, so you couldn’t be sure what was what.
The presentation is well worth seeing for the presentation-technique too. If everyone perfomed like this, it would be even more joyful to go to a conference. Ursus is good on a stage, although his breath can be a bit heavy in the microphone. It’s 15 minutes, but you’ll get a several fun moments and some insights, so it’s recommended.
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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

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

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

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

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