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Beth Kanter from Hot Butter Studio designed a brilliant infographic using LEGO to illustrate how organizing data visually helps audiences draw conclusions effectively. This graphic was featured in her blog to highlight the importance of visual order.
02. What makes a good infographic?
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A successful infographic must be useful, accurate, and meaningful, while avoiding clutter, distractions, and misleading elements.
03. World’s Most Popular Artist
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Have you ever wondered if your favorite artist aligns with the preferences of other art enthusiasts in your country? Ken Bromley Art Supplies has created stunning art-based data visualizations that reveal these trends, showcasing beautiful representations of art fan favorites.
04. Font Psychology and Pop Culture
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Venngage’s design explores the psychological impact of font choices by analyzing the typography of popular Netflix shows like The Crown and 13 Reasons Why. It highlights how fonts convey moods, genres, and trends, influencing viewer perceptions.
05. History of Life
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Juan Martinez’s infographic beautifully details Earth’s geological eras, mapping landmass changes, life milestones, and extinction events.
06. A Stranger to Words
Dyslexic artist Meng Chih Chiang created a complex data visualization graph, depicting her personal journey with language. The infographic reflects the curve of her learning experience as she navigates language in her daily life.
07. 50 years of Doctor Who
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Illustrator Sam Gilbey created a pop-culture infographic for Virgin in 2013 to celebrate Doctor Who’s 50th anniversary. It provides a great overview of the show’s first five decades, making it a treat for both new and die-hard fans.
08. Hip Hop infographic
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Design studio Dorothy has created some of the most intricate infographics in poster form, connecting entertainment genres and sub-genres. Standout pieces include the ‘blueprints’ series on hip hop history and the ‘colour wheel’ series, highlighting color palettes in movies, books, and music.
09. Oddity Viz
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Valentina D’Efilippo’s award-winning visualisation of David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” deconstructs the track across ten 12-inch discs, each focusing on elements like melody, lyrics, and structure.
10. An Analysis of The Beatles infographic
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This interactive creation is one of the best infographics we’ve seen to analyse the Fab Four. It breaks down their career by year and by album and providing plenty of insight into who wrote what, which Beatle had the biggest vocabulary (hint: it wasn’t Ringo), what most of their songs were about, and much more.
11. SWANH.NET
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The best infographics go the extra mile, but this one goes the extra light year! Swiss illustrator Martin Panchaud has adapted the original 1977 Star Wars film, A New Hope, into a 123-metre-long animated wonder. Created in Illustrator CC, using 157 pictures across 22 separate files, it took him over a year to produce.
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12. What NOT to Get a Graphic Designer for Christmas
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It’s never too early start thinking about Christmas presents, and this tongue-in-cheek infographic focuses on exactly what to AVOID buying the designer in your life. Illustrated by Simon Middleweek, this fun list brilliantly illustrates the pitfalls involved in shopping for a creative professional, from cliched hipster garb to cringeworthy T-shirts.
13. 30 Life Skills Every Functioning Adult Should Master
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Do you consider yourself ‘grown up’ yet? If the answer’s yes, then maybe this infographic from Business Insider will make you think again. It runs through 30 of the most important traits every adult should have under their belt, from being able to mend your own clothes to speaking a second language. If like us, you haven’t mastered all of these yet, don’t let it stress you out, but use it as a handy motivational tool to improve your life.
14. The 10 Commandments of Typography
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This infographic from Evan Brown at DesignMantic type nerd’s dream. If you’ve ever found yourself aimlessly scrolling through lists of the best free fonts, this cheatsheet will help you refocus your search by providing some key rules.
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15. 9 Productivity Mistakes you’re Making in the First 10 Minutes of Your Day
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The first 10 minutes of your day can make or break it. This clear and engaging infographic from Impact uses bold illustration to tell you how (and how not) to use those minutes to boost your productivity for the day ahead.
16. Should I Work for Free?
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One of the best infographics to ever go viral, this tongue-in-cheek creation by Jessica Hische is every bit as relevant today as when it was created in 2011. It uses the classic flowchart method to address all the possible perspectives on this notoriously thorny and divisive issue, and is built using live text in HTML and CSS to enable translation into any language. If you’d prefer it in a more traditional format, however, it’s also available as a letterpress print.
17. Desk Exercises for Designers
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Are you reading this slumped at your desk? You’re probably not doing yourself any favours, posture-wise. Sort yourself out with this guide to 10 exercises you can do right at your desk, compiled by us and illustrated by Simon Middleweek. See our post on the desk exercises infographic here.
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18. Left vs Right
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Information is Beautiful is a treasure trove of gorgeous infographics, and this one by David McCandless & Stefanie Posavec shows how the left and right are broadly defined around the world. We think it’s a great way of distilling this complex ideology in just a few images.
19. A World of Debt
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Whenever you hear about government debt, the figures are always so astronomical it’s difficult to understand what any of it means in real terms. Which makes this infographic from Visual Capitalist quite an eye opener. Visually comparing the amount of governmental debt owed country by country, you’ll probably be very surprised by the disparity in debt across the globe.
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20. Photography Cheat Sheet: Manual Mode Camera Settings
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How many of us own expensive cameras, but don’t understand half of the buttons and functions they offer? If you’re shooting using the automatic modes then you’re probably going to end up with an uninspiring shot. So check out this infographic from Skylum, which explains the three most important things you need to know about manual camera settings: ISO, aperture and shutter speed.
21. Terms Designers Get Wrong
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Jargon is a fact of life whatever profession you belong to, but the best infographics can help make the confusing clear. Which is why Creative Market produced this handy guide to the word and phrases that most commonly get mixed up. So whether you get unsure about opacity and transparency, vector and raster, or leading, tracking and kerning, this infographic has you covered.
22. Apollo Missions
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Winner of an ‘Information is Beautiful award’, which are given to the best infographics, in 2017, Paul Button’s stunning visualisation of the Apollo missions charts every manned rocket flight by year, distance and path travelled, as well as which astronauts were on board. It thus explains incredibly complex processes such as calculating different orbits, flight paths and landing zones in a simple, visual way.
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23. Searching questions
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Delayed Gratification magazine is full of interesting and beautifully laid out infographics. The one above shows what the world was searching online for during the height of the coronavirus pandemic from February to July 2020.
24. Gender Pay Gap by EU Country
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The best infographics can bring dry statistics to life, and bring out the main theme in one knockout visual punch. This great infographic from the European Parliament, focusing on the inequality between men and women in the labour market, uses simple but effective illustrative device to achieve just that. (That said, as the accompanying text makes clear, a narrower pay gap does not necessarily mean more equality; but that’s a whole other article…)
25. Chinese Social Media Landscape
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This was illustrator Jessica Draws’ first animated infographic. It was commissioned by China Blueprint Online to communicate the benefits of using Chinese social media in Australia, and it’s both informative and super-fun.
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26. The History of Art timeline infographic
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One of the best infographics showing a timeline, this design was created by Matthew Cobrin for an Art History class when he was an undergrad at The New England Institute of Art, Brookline, Massachusetts. We love its use of colour, bold lines, and fascinating subject matter.
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27. All the World’s Metals and Minerals
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It’s not traditionally something you would think about: what are the buildings we live in, the roads we drive on, and the products we consume actually made of? But in these times of enhanced environmental awareness, these are increasingly important questions, and they’re answered brilliantly in this eye-opening infographic from Visual Capitalist. Note, though, that you really need to scroll to the bottom to get the full impact.
28. Santiago Poster
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Santiago de Compostela is a city in Spain that’s best known for being the culmination of the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage route. This infographic details the routes and identities of those who’ve journeyed to the alleged burial site of Biblical apostle St. James. It’s available to buy as a poster.
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29. How to use Colour and Typography in Marketing
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There’s a lot of talk about the cultural meaning of different colours and how this can be harnessed in marketing, but how much of it is actually true? This animated infographic by MDG Advertising sorts reality from myth, and provides a series of bite-size facts on the subjects of colour and typography in marketing.
30. How to Learn to Draw
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Anna Vital is the information designer behind Adioma, one of the best infographics tools around. And her infographic explaining how to learn to draw is a great example of the tool in action.
