Gallery

Every piece here was drawn for this site from a small public dataset. Under each one you will find the data as a table, the source, and the reasoning behind the layout, the chart type and the colors.

Human

Human section

How people spend their time and how long they live. Both pieces work with averages, so the notes spend some time on what an average hides.

Human Where the 24 hours go The average American day in 2025, as a 24-hour strip and a ranked list. Human Down two years, then most of the way back U.S. life expectancy from 2019 to 2023, drawn as a labeled line.

Economy

Economy section

Money charts carry a trap that other charts don't: dollars change value over time. Both notes explain how the design deals with it.

Economy Ten years of inflation, one spike Annual U.S. CPI inflation, 2015 to 2024, with 2022 picked out. Economy From 25 cents to $7.25, then flat The federal minimum wage since 1938, drawn as a step line.

Tech

Tech section

Adoption curves and share-of-population numbers, two of the most common things a tech infographic has to show.

Tech From one in three to nine in ten The rise of smartphone ownership in the U.S., 2011 to 2024. Tech 68 of every 100 people are online World internet use in 2024 as a grid of 100 people.

Lists & How-tos

Lists & How-tos section

Cheat sheets and step-by-step pieces. The data here is a standard or a formula, so the design job is to make it quick to look up.

Lists & How-tos Print sizes at 300 ppi Five paper sizes drawn to scale with their pixel dimensions. Lists & How-tos Three contrast numbers to remember The WCAG contrast ratios, shown with measured gray samples.