How to show the International Trade … Not!
Innovative, maybe - but it's inaccurate - and you have no idea, when you see this tangled web
Malofiej 2002: Javier Errea had collected the results of the survey between the 21 experts. Obviously they couldn’t agree on the ‘best graphic’ although Minard’s Napoleon map got two votes.
However, the most successful artist might be Nigel Holmes, who was selected three times.
Below are all the results. Regrettably without the graphics. (- hey, there has to be advantages to show up at the actual conference, eh?)
NAME OF EXPERT |
SELECTED GRAPHIC |
GRAPHIC ARTIST |
Michael Agar, The Observer, UK |
IRA Attack on No. 10 |
Phil Green, The Sunday Telegraph, 10/2 1991 |
Ricardo Bermejo, Bermejo Communicacíon, Spain |
The Fate of Napoleon’s Army in Russia, 1812-13 |
Charles Minard, 1869 |
Juan Antonio Giner, Innovation International Media Consulting Group, USA |
Bush vs Clinton, US Presidential Election |
Nigel Holmes, Time Magazine, 1992 |
Jeff Goertzen, St. Petersburg Times, USA |
The Weather map |
George Rorick, USA Today 1982 |
Phil Green, The Sunday Telegraph, UK |
Evolution of the Earth |
Ned M. Seidler, National Geographic, August 1985 |
John Grimwade, Condé Nast Traveler Magazine, USA |
New York Axonometric Map |
Anderson, August 1985 |
Karl Gude, Newsweek, USA |
Drawings |
Leonardo da Vinci, 16th Century |
Nigel Holmes, Visual Explanations, USA |
London Underground Map from 1932, (1945 version) |
Harry Beck |
Lucy Lacava, Consultant, Canada |
Breitling Emergency Watch: How it works |
Frank O’Connell, The New York Times, 2000 |
Joe Lertola, Time Magazine, USA |
Underground – looking into the earth |
Ned M. Seidler, National Geographic, 1985 |
Duncan Mil, Graphic News, UK |
Diamonds were a girl’s best friend |
Nigel Holmes, Time, 1983 |
Ole Munk, Ribergaard & Munk, Denmark |
A prostitute has been murdered |
Erling Nederland, Politiken, 1974 |
Corrie Parsonson, Reuters News Graphicss Service, UK |
Cholera epidemic map in London |
John Snow, 1854 |
Gonzalo Peltzer, El Territorio, Argentina |
Soro’s properties |
Jaime Serra, Clarin, 1997 |
George Rorick, The Poynter Institute, USA |
The Fate of Napoleon’s Army in Russia, 1812-13 |
Charles Minard, 1869 |
Jaime Serra, Spain |
Manual of instructions for assembling |
Marcel Duchamp, 1966 |
Jan Schwochow, Max Magazine, Germany |
A Monumental Challenge |
W. Pitzer, The Charlotte Observer |
Geoffrey Sims, The Times, UK |
Train Diagram and others |
L. Ashwell Wood, Eagle, 1950-1969 |
Leo Tavejnhansky, O Globo, Brazil |
Snoring |
Nigel Holmes, US Airways magazine |
Miguel Urabayen, University of Navarra |
Europe at the frontier of World War 2 |
Richard Edes Harrison, Fortune, 1938 |
Juan Velasco, The New York Times, USA |
A clock |
Unknown |
(This article was first published in 2002 in the former version of VisualJournalism.com)
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