It seems as though any designer can create infographics, but only with the right balance of text, images and metaphor. Over the past seven years, the awards has grown to include compelling categories for infographic design, from arts and culture to science, business and breaking news, maps, languages and even an “unusual” category, which features photos of Paris seen through the lens of over 1,000 photographers. And it focuses on showing what’s needed most today: The cold hard facts. The organizers had the largest amount of award entries ever, with designers from across the U.S., Europe, Asia and Latin America making infographics from Play-Doh, clay and even cigarette butts. The award ceremony for this year was held in early December in New York, and was purported to be the most special ceremony yet.
You Could Fill a Museum by Bloomberg Businessweek The rise in popularity of infographics has helped spurred an infographics design awards called the Kantar Information is Beautiful Awards which claims to “celebrate excellence and beauty in data visualizations, infographics, interactives & information art.” The awards are judged by a panel of experts and through a public vote that reaches out to a community of 300,000, who helps decide who wins (for example, one of last year’s winning projects was a dataviz called the Travel Visa Inequality, which shows how citizens from different countries are treated while traveling the world). As designer Alberto Cairo once said: “Information graphics should be aesthetically pleasing but many designers think about aesthetics before they think about structure, about the information itself, about the story the graphic should tell.” Information Art Accolades Infographics are more than just words and images, it’s all about making sense of complex information, which is divided down into chunks.
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