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• INDUSTRY NEWS: GET CLICKING – IGS GO INTERACTIVE

  
  • 17 Feb 2012
  • Interactive Infographics , Year Of The Dragon

    Not only does the data tell the story in interactive Infographics, but you get to be a part of it. Interactive Infographics allow you to click on points and go in-depth to places of interest. C... Continue →

• INDUSTRY NEWS: Don’t Mock My Meme

  
  • 12 Feb 2012
  • Animation , Art , Avatars , Cinemagraphs , Dance , Design , Meme

  From the dancing baby to pepper spraying cop, memes have breathed the winds of democracy into the world’s sense of humour so now anyone can expand on the joke.A news image, YouTube clip, cartoo... Continue →

• INDUSTRY NEWS: FOR THE LOVE OF INFOGRAPHICS

  
  • 12 Jan 2012
  • Arts , Design , Infographics

  Why Infographics? Storytelling Good ones tell a compelling story — one you can take in instantly. The more you are intrigued by the story, the more you allow yourself to move with it, the more i... Continue →

• INFOGLYPHS 2011 GIFT GUIDE

  
  • 07 Dec 2011
  • 2011 Gift Guide , Art , Design , Film

  The 20 Best Blog Blade Runner Umbrella As appropriate as more and more our lives begin to resemble Blade Runner. The movie is being remade as well. Not that it needs to be.Buy here. Tweets... Continue →

• INDUSTRY NEWS: If I could catch time in a bottle

  
  • 29 Nov 2011
  • Archives , Collaborations , Design , Film , History , Timelines , Web

  A fabulous way to experience history on the internet, How To Be A Retronaut, collects snippets of historical imagery to present a perceptual understanding of history.Writing about the line-up fo... Continue →

• INDUSTRY NEWS: iPad App Puts You in Global Context

  
  • 22 Nov 2011
  • Apps , Design , Enivronmentalism , Meme , news , Photographs , Social Media , Timelines , Viral

    Ready to freak yourself out? The World Rebalancing is an iPad App that pulls data from several places to create visualizations exploring daily global impact. The data is receive... Continue →

• INDUSTRY NEWS: WHO AM I … VIRTUALLY?

  
  • 14 Nov 2011
  • Animation , Art , Avatars , Culture , Design , Gaming , Photography , Politics

  What self-representation can teach us about identity Artistic self-representation in the art world has always been the subject matter of choice – due to poverty, narcissism or the artistic t... Continue →

• INDUSTRY NEWS: WINNING ISN’T EVERYTHING … ARE WE EVEN PLAYING?

  
  • 07 Nov 2011
  • Art , Art History , Design , Graphic Art

  2012 London Cultural Olympiad’s Avant-Garde Posters The London 2012 official Olympic posters were revealed to the public last Friday to the delight of some and the disdain of others. Cul... Continue →

• INDUSTRY NEWS: Montreal’s Multi-Talented Maestro

  
  • 31 Oct 2011
  • Art , Design , Gaming , Graphic Design , Video

  Leading thousands of design lemmings off the cliff of multi-media design Canadian graphic designer Julien Vallee is making his mark on the art and design world with the publication of his boo... Continue →

• INDUSTRY NEWS: She Blinded Me With Science

  
  • 24 Oct 2011
  • Design , Graphic Design , Infographics , Photography , Politics , Science

  Communicating complex scientific theory or information is difficult at best. It just makes sense to use infographics to communicate these complexities. Unfortunately, though infographics is ... Continue →

• INDUSTRY NEWS: Ask Me About ASCII ART

  
  • 17 Oct 2011
  • Ascii Art , Ascii Comics , Culture , Design , Emoticon , Fashion Design , Halloween

  Exquisite Linguistic Art & Design ASCII art, in the formal sense, means a graphic representation consisting of the 95 printable characters of the ASCII (American Standard Code for Informatio... Continue →

• INDUSTRY NEWS: McSweeny’s Takes on Type

  
  • 11 Oct 2011
  • Art , Design , Font , Literature , Satire , Typography , Video

  Timothy McSweeny’s Internet Tendency has been posting some informative and hilarious articles online about font and typography. McSweeny’s is an independent publishing house based... Continue →

• INDUSTRY NEWS: Nordic Primitive Futurism

  
  • 26 Sep 2011
  • Art , Design , Graphic Design , Mid Century Modern , Primitive Futurism , Scandinavian , Video

  But Baby It’s Cold Outside … I think my affinity to Nordic art and design has something to do with Canada and the Nordic countries both living through winters. Those short periods of l... Continue →

• INDUSTRY NEWS: Art, Poetry and Animation

  
  • 19 Sep 2011
  • Animation , Art , Art History , Beat Poetry , Design , Film , Graphic Novels , Politics

  The Graphic Novel Beyond the Covers Eric Drooker | Gears in motion from Henning M. Lederer on Vimeo. Eric Drooker, artist and graphic designer, has made the leap to the big screen. Drooker, known... Continue →

• INDUSTRY NEWS: Intoxicating Design

  
  • 12 Sep 2011
  • Art , Festivals , Graphic Design , History , Music , Product Design

  Packing potables is just as important as the booze inside. A label that is humourous or classic or minimalist or avant garde is a reflection of the vintner’s sensibilities but mainly d... Continue →

• INDUSTRY NEWS: Manipulating the Manipulators

  
  • 07 Sep 2011
  • Advertising , Culture Jamming , Design , Graphic Design , Photoshop , Politics , Satire

  The Good, The Bad and The Ugly of Photoshopping What is reality? Does anyone even care anymore?Photoshopping has become so cheap and easy that we have almost come to expect media images t... Continue →

• INDUSTRY NEWS: Searching for Sterling

  
  • 29 Aug 2011
  • Art , Design , Font , Graphic Design , Photoshop , Product Design , Typography

  The Silence of Design Star Jennifer Sterling Award-winning graphic designer Jennifer Sterling was well-known for her experiemental typography that could be “loud” or “sing&#... Continue →

• INDUSTRY NEWS: Propagandists to Design Pioneers

  
  • 22 Aug 2011
  • Art , China , Culture , Design , Graphic Design , Politics , Video

  A New Day Dawns for Chinese Designers Javin Mo is leading the pack of up-and-coming Chinese designers. He, along with interactive designer Wilson Tang, created Milkxhake- an award-winning de... Continue →

• INDUSTRY NEWS: The Shape of Things

  
  • 15 Aug 2011
  • Art , Design , Geometry , Graphic Design , Sacred Geometry

  Geometric Art & Design jQuery(document).ready(function(){ jQuery("#ngg-slideshow-3-2443-6").nggSlideshow( {id: 3,fx:"fade",width:500,height:350,domain: "http://infoglyphs.com/",timeout:... Continue →

• INDUSTRY NEWS: The Mad Genius Eye of Stanley Kubrick

  
  • 08 Aug 2011
  • Archives , Art , Design , Film , Photography , Satire , Set Design , Technical Manuals

  Who cares that actors found him demanding. Years after Stanley Kubrick’s death, lovers of visual design and movie-making continue to obsess over his genius and recent exhibitions of hi... Continue →

• INDUSTRY NEWS: A Russian Type Revolution

  
  • 02 Aug 2011
  • Art , Design , Font , Graphic Design , Music , Photography , Politics , Typography , Video

    Russian Designers Keep it Fresh The Daily Type is a collective experiment in typography. The participants create new original typeface and share them on the site. The results are a beautif... Continue →

• • 25 Jul 2011
  • Data Mapping , Design , Infographics , Thematic Mapping

  Constuctions of Data Landscapes Thematic mapping takes a picture of social, cultural, political or economic landscapes. Being able to compare and contrast geographies in a data context gives an ... Continue →

• • 25 Jul 2011
  • Data Mapping , Design , Infographics , Thematic Mapping

  Constuctions of Data Landscapes Thematic mapping takes a picture of social, cultural, political or economic landscapes. Being able to compare and contrast geographies in a data context gives a... Continue →

• INDUSTRY NEWS: Music Infographics that Rock

  
  • 18 Jul 2011
  • Graphic Design , Infographics , Multi-Media , Music , Music History

  Visual representations of music information Visual data about music can be educational, artistic and humourous. Take this example. Created by designer Jez Burrows, it is a Modern Listener̵... Continue →

• INDUSTRY NEWS: Data Driven Social Networking

  
  • 11 Jul 2011
  • Data , Data Storage , Film , History , Infographics , Social Media

  Empowering Patients with Real-Life Health Data PatientsLikeMeis social networking that is breaking new ground in health sciences and in the lives of sick people. The site is a place where pati... Continue →

• INDUSTRY NEWS: (GEO) Location! Location! Location!

  
  • 05 Jul 2011
  • Apps , Art , Data Mapping , Design , Font , Typography

  On a recent trip to Toronto, my oldest friend Paul told me how he knows all the gay people in his neighbourhood. Grindris a geo-location phone app that locates gay men in your area. Originall... Continue →

• Industry News: Funny Elements of Serious Design

  
  • 27 Jun 2011
  • Design , Film , Flowcharts , Graphic Design , Grunge Design , Infographics , Publishing

  David Carson, coined the “grunge typographer” for his ground-breaking work with images and letters both as the founding art director of Raygun magazine and cover art designer for Nine Inc... Continue →

• Welcome to the InfoGlyphs Blog: your weekly update of industry, design,facts and fun

  
  • 20 Jun 2011
  • Creative Lab , Design , Google , Graphic Design , Thematic Mapping , Video

  Industry News: Team Explores Imagery in Arcade Fire Song Aaron Koblin is a talented information designer and leader of the Data Arts Team in the Google Creative Lab. Check out his experimental in... Continue →