Blogs

Bang Wong
bang.clearscience.info
Brain Pickings, brainpickings.org
Chartsnthings Nytimes
Graphics Dept.'s blog
chartsnthings.tumblr.com
Chart Porn, chartporn.org
Civic Infographics
civicinfographics.ahref.eu
Cool Infographics
coolinfographics.com
Create Digital Motion
createdigitalmotion.com
Creative Applications Network
creativeapplications.net
Daily infographic
dailyinfographic.com
Data Journalism Blog
datajournalismblog.com
Data Visualization
datavisualization.ch
datavis.tumblr.com
Data Wrangling
datawrangling.com
Dataspora, dataspora.com/blog
DDD Infographic
dddinfographic.com
Density Design Lab
densitydesign.org
flickr.com/densitydesign
Design Language News
news.designlanguage.com
Designing The News
designingthenews.com
Eagereyes, eagereyes.org
Excel Charts Blog
excelcharts.com/blog
Fast Company's Co.Design
fastcodesign.com/section/info-
graphic-of-the-day
Fell in love with data
fellinlovewithdata.com
Flowing data, flowingdata.com
The Functional Art
thefunctionalart.com
Graphic Sociology
thesocietypages.org/graphicso-
ciology
Greg J.Smith, serialconsign.com
Guardian Datablog
guardian.co.uk/news/datablog
flickr.com/groups/guardianda-
tastore
Ideas Illustrated
ideasillustrated.com/blog
I Love Charts
ilovecharts.tumblr.com
Indie Maps, indiemaps.com/blog
Infographer, infographer.ru
Infographics Archive
infographicsarchive.com
Infographic - GOODS
good.is/infographics
Infographic News
infographicsnews.blogspot.com
Information Aesthetics
infosthetics.com
Information Design
informationdesign.org
Information is beautiful
informationisbeautiful.net
Information is beautiful awards
informationisbeautifulawards.
com
Interactives
interactive-infographics.com
Junk Charts,
junkcharts.typepad.com
Many Eyes
manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com
The numbers guy WSJ
blogs.wsj.com/numbersguy
O'Reilly Radar, radar.oreilly.com
OECD Fact Blog
blog.oecdfactblog.org
Perceptual Edge
perceptualedge.com
Pete Search
petewarden.typepad.com
Sankey Diagrams
sankey-diagrams.com
Seth's Sources
sethssources.wordpress.com
Simple Complexity
simplecomplexity.net
Spatial Analysis
spatialanalysis.co.uk
Stat Project
stat-project.com
Style.org, style.org
Stories Through Data
storiesthroughdata.blogs.lincoln.
ac.uk
Substratum Series
substratumseries.com
Swiss Infographics,
swissinfographics.com
Visual Complexity
visualcomplexity.com/vc
Visual Journalism
visualjournalism.com
Visual Loop
visualoop.tumblr.com
Visual Think Map
visualthinkmap.ning.com
Visualising.org
visualizing.org
Visualising Data
visualisingdata.com
Visualing Economics
visualizingeconomics.com
The Why Axis, thewhyaxis.info
Well-Formed Data,
well-formed-data.net
WolframAlpha
blog.wolframalpha.com
xBlog
xplane.com/xblog/data-visuali-
zation
xkcd, xkcd.com
People
& Studios
1kilo, 1kilo.org
Alberto Cairo, visualopolis.com
lvaro Valio, cargocollective.
com/alvarovalino
Alwayswithhonor,
alwayswithhonor.com
Aaron Koblin,
aaronkoblin.com
Amanda Cox,
amandacox.tumblr.com
Applied Works
appliedworks.co.uk
ART + COM AG, artcom.de
Asaf Degani,
nasa.gov/isd/adegani
Ball Nogues, ball-nogues.com
Ben Fry, benfry.com
Ben Shneiderman, cs.umd.
edu/~ben
Benedikt Gro, looksgood.de/
log/
Berg, berglondon.com
Bestiario, bestiario.org
Bloom, bloom.io
Carlo Ratti, senseable.mit.edu
Carl DeTorres, carldetorres.com
Catalogtree, catalogtree.net
Charles M. Blow,
blow.blogs.nytimes.com
Chris Bodle,
watermarksproject.org
Christian Behrens, niceone.org
Christhop Niemann,
christophniemann.com
Christopher Adjei
& Nils Holland-Cunz,
visualizinglastfm.de
Christopher Baker,
christopherbaker.net
Christopher Warnow,
christopherwarnow.com/portfolio
Clio Chaffardon,
cliochaffardon.com
Column FIve, columnfivemedia.
com
Craig Robinson,
flipflopflyin.com/flipflopflyball
Cybu Richli & Fabienne Burri,
c2f.to
Danah Boyd, danah.org
Daniel Becker,
daniel-a-becker.de
Data Market, datamarket.com
Data Republic,
thedatarepublic.com
David Bizer, bza.biz
David Bowen, dwbowen.com
Density Design,densitydesign.org
Edward Tufte, edwardtufte.com
Envis Precisely, envis-precisely.
com/index_en.php
Eric Fischer,
flickr.com/photos/walkingsf
Erik Spiekermann,
spiekermann.com
Daniel A., daniel-a-becker.de
David McCandless,
davidmccandless.com
Fernanda Viegas,
fernandaviegas.com
Field, field.io
Flink Labs, flinklabs.com
Francesco Franchi,
francescofranchi.com
Ffunction, ffctn.com
Gerd Arntz, gerdarntz.org
Golan Levin, flong.com
Golden Section Graphics
golden-section-graphics.com
goldensectiongraphics.blogspot.
com
Gregor Aisch, vis4.net/blog
Infomotor.home, infomotor.com
Interactive Things, interacti-
vethings.com
ITO World, itoworld.com
Ixtract, ixtract.de
Irene Ros, ireneros.com
Jakob Nielsen, useit.com
Jakob Trollbck, trollback.com
Jason Davies, jasondavies.com
Jason Fried, 37signals.com
Jef Raskin, on wikipedia
Jeff Clark, neoformix.com
Jen Lowe, datatelling.com
Jennifer Daniel, ...slashwwwjen-
niferdaniel.com
Jer Thorp, blprnt.com
Jerome Cukier, jeromecukier.net
JESS3, jess3.com
Jim Vallandingham, vallanding-
ham.me
John Caserta, johncaserta.com
John Grimwade,
johngrimwade.com
John Maeda, maedastudio.com
Jonathan Corum, 13pt.com
Jonathan Harris, number27.org
Jude Buffum, judebuffum.com
Juice Analytics, juiceanalytics.
com
Katy Borner, ella.slis.indiana.
edu/~katy
Khoi Vinh, subtraction.com
Ladislav Sutnar, sutnar.cz
Lamosca, lamosca.com
La Tigre, latigre.net
Leftloft, leftloft.com
Lev Manovich, manovich.net
Luke Wroblewski, lukew.com
Mahir M., casualdata.com
Manuel Lima, mslima.com
Marco Quaggiotto,
knowledgecartography.org
Marcos Weskamp,
marumushi.com
Marian Bantjes, bantjes.com
Martin Wattenberg,
bewitched.com
Martin Oberhaeuser, behance.
net/Oberhaeuser
About information design / data visualization
by Francesco Franchi (Latest update: 11.10.13)
[email protected] @ffranchi
download this document from: www.ffran.ch/id.pdf
About information design / data visualization
Matthew Ericson,
ericson.net/content
Max Kiesler, maxkiesler.com
Megan Jaegerman,
edwardtufte.com/jaegerman
Michael Deal, mikemake.com/
filter/infographics
Michael Stoll, flickr.com/photos/
mstoll
MIke Bostock, bost.ocks.org/
mike
Moritz Stefaner, moritz.stefaner.
eu
Naoto Fukasawa,
naotofukasawa.com
Nicholas Felton, feltron.com,
feltron.tumblr.com
Nicolas Garcia,
philogb.github.com
Nigel Holmes, nigelholmes.com
Nytlabs, nytlabs.com
Oblong, oblong.com
Oliver Reichenstein,
informationarchitects.net
Onlab, onlab.ch
OOM, oomcreative.com
Otto Neurath, neurath.at
fulltable.com/iso
Paul Graham, paulgraham.com
Paul Mijksenaar, mijksenaar.com
Periscopic, periscopic.com
Peter Grundy, grundini.com
Peter Van Dijck,
petervandijck.com
Pitch Interactive, pitchinteracti-
ve.com/beta/index.php
Plaid Creative,
plaid-creative.com
Potion, potiondesign.com
Rachel Binx, rachelbinx.com
Rhiza Labs, rhizalabs.com
Salottobuono, salottobuono.net
Santiago Ortiz, moebio.com
Scott Murray, alignedleft.com
Sean Clarke, sean-clarke.co.uk
Seed, seedmediagroup.com
Stamen Design, stamen.com
Stefanie Posavec,
itsbeenreal.co.uk
Stephen Wolfram,
blog.stephenwolfram.com
Szucs Krisztina, webecset.hu
Taco Lab, tacolab.com
Toby Ng Kwong To, toby-ng.com
Trace Media, tracemedia.co.uk
Visup, visup.it
Vizzuality, vizzuality.com
Jan Willem Tulp, tulpinteractive.
com
Xavier Barrade,
xavierbarrade.com
Books

R. Klanten, N. Bourquin,
S. Ehmann, F. van Heerden,
T. Tissot (2008), Data Flow -
Visualising Information in Graphic
Design, Gestalten.

R. Klanten, N. Bourquin, S.
Ehmann, T. Tissot (2010),
Data Flow 2 - Visualising Informa-
tion in Graphic Design, Gestalten.

Harmon, Katherine (2003),

You Are Here, Princeton Archi-
tectural Press.

Harris, Robert L. (2000),

Information Graphics: A Com-
prehensive Illustrated Referen-
ce, Oxford University Press.

Helfand, Jessica (2002)

Reinventing the Wheel,
Princeton Architectural Press.

Holmes, Nigel (1991),

Designers Guide to Creating
Charts and Diagrams,
Watson-Guptill.

Holmes, Nigel (2005),

Wordless Diagrams, Bloomsbury

Institute for Information De-

sign Japan (2005),
Information Design Sourcebook,
Graphics-Sha.

Jacobson, Robert (2000),

Information Design,
The MIT Press.

SND-E, Malofeij Awards - Ye-

arly Books, Index Book.

Mijksenaar, Paul and Westen-

dorp, Piet. Open Here: The
Art of Instructional Design.

Mijksenaar, Paul (1997), Visual

Function: An Introduction
to Information Design, Princeton
Architectural Press.

Tufte, Edward (1990),

Envisioning Information,
Graphics Press.

Tufte, Edward (1997), Visual

Explanations: Images and
Quantities, Evidence and Narra-
tive, Graphics Press.

Tufte, Edward (2001), The

Visual Display of Quantitative
Information, Graphics Press.

R. Klanten, S. Ehmann, F.
Schulze (2011), Visual Storytel-
ling Inspiring a New Visual
Language, Gestalten.

S. Rendgen, J.Wiedemann
(2012), Information Graphics,
Taschen.

T. Finke, S. Manger, S. Fichtel,

(2012) Informotion Animated
Infographics, Gestalten.

M. Lima, (2012) Visual Com-

plexity Mapping Patterns of
Information, Princeton Architec-
tural Press.

J. Bertin, (2012) Semiology of

Graphics Diagrams, Networks,
Maps, Esri Press.

J. Lankow, J. Ritchie, R.
Crooks (2012) Infographics The
Power of Visualstorytelling, Wiley.

J. Gray, L. Bounegru, L.
Chambers, (2012) The Data
Journalism Handbook, O'REILLY
datajournalismhandbook.org
A selection of books: visual-
complexity.com/vc/books.cfm
Video
RSA Animate, thersa.org
Areva advertising, by h5
watch the video
GOOD Magazine
watch the videos
La Vita Nva watch the videos
Ryksopp, Remind me, by h5
watch the video
Stranger than Fiction movie
intro, by mk12 watch the video
Peak Oil Wars
watch the video
Sprint/Nextel advertising,
by Superfad watch the video
Japan, The Strange Country
by Kenichi watch the video
What Barry says, by Knife Party
watch the video
Along with the book Infor-
motion, Gestalten is offering
additional video content:
digital.gestalten.com/informotion
Newspapers
& Magazines
Die Zeit, zeit.de/grafik
Bloomberg Businessweek
flickr.com/photos/bizweekde-
sign/
GOOD Magazine, good.is/de-
partments/transparency
IL Intelligence in lifestyle
flickr.com/ffranchi/collections
INGRAPHICS, ingraphics.info
The New York Times
nytimes.com/pages/multimedia
fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com
Los Angeles Times,
datadesk.latimes.com
VINTAGE Fortune magazine
fulltable.com/VTS/f/fortune/
menub.htm
Resources
Infodesignpatterns,
infodesignpatterns.com
Infographic: Examples and Best
Practices, instantshift.com
Iraq War Fatalities, nytimes.com
Web Trend Map, by Information
Architecs iA, WTM4, Cosmic140
A good selection of resources:
as8.it/edu/info-design.html
A good selection of blogs:
moebio.com/datavisnetwork
Data and visualization blogs:
flowingdata.com/2012/04/27/
data-and-visualization-blogs-
worth-following
An essential collection:
visualisingdata.com/index.
php/2011/03/part-1-the-essen-
tial-collection-of-visualisation-
resources
Tools
d3, mbostock.github.com/d3
Datakind, datakind.org
Envision, humblesoftware.com/
envision
Gapminder, gapminder.org
Geocommmos,
geocommons.com
Gephi, gephi.org
Google Chart, code.google.com/
apis/chart
Infogr.am, infogr.am
Infovis, thejit.org
Many Eyes, 958.ibm.com/softwa-
re/data/cognos/manyeyes
Miso, misoproject.com
Plot.io, plot.io
Polychart, polychart.com
Processing, processing.org
Quadrigram, quadrigram.com
R project, r-project.org
RAW, raw.densitydesign.org
Tableau Software,
tableausoftware.com
Timeline verite, timeline.verite.co
Visual.ly, create.visual.ly
Wolframalpha,
wolframalpha.com
Wordle, wordle.net
A Carefully Selected List
of Recommended Tools:
datavisualization.ch/tools/
selected-tools
Type
Tk Type FF Chartwell,
tktype.com
Apps
AntiMap Log
download from iTunes
DayLightCal
download from iTunes
Infographics
by Column Five Media
download from iTunes
Virtual Water
download from iTunes
Objects
Nooka watches, nooka.com