July 09, 2008

Truth in Infographics

At work we keep a private posting area/blog for us to post interesting design work we've found somewhere else as inspiration, or just for a laugh. I have been wanting it to be public, but I guess the power's that be are nervous about some of our clients seeing the content or something. Nothing earth shattering has ever been posted, but I did want to share this funny chain of events between 2 of our Art Directors.

First, Brian posted an infographic he found about Obama's inventive campaign money raising:

No Small Change
June 27th, 2008 · Posted by BrianB · 2 Comments

How Obama Reinvented Campaign Finance

Here’s a little fun info graphic by Xplane illustrating how Barack Obama found a more effective way to raise campaign cash by using the power social networks.

Then Daniel responded with a graphic he created showing how he felt that the infographic was incorrectly displaying size relationships:

Truth in Infographics
DanielK // Jul 4, 2008 at 6:10 pm

I have a visual response that I’d like to title “Truth in Infographics”

Then finally after that Brian posted a hilarious response to end it for once and for all:

In Addition
BrianB // Jul 7, 2008 at 10:13 pm

2 comments:

dave said...

Hi Irene,

I noted the same error and we have corrected it. The new version is here. I am actually surprised more people didn't catch the error.

Irene Pereyra said...

Hi Dave,

I am impressed with your team's dedication, and the new graphic looks great!

Always a pleasure seeing your company's work...