Inspiration

AIGA Design Archives

This collection has tons of graphs, maps, charts and diagrams. I'm going to look through and post some of my favorites.

I am also going to look at Information Design

It is important to create experimental platforms–interdisciplinary forums in which theoretical and visual research merge and new content-related and visual concepts are tested in a playful manner. An autonomous research approach could help reflect upon and expand the methods of information design. This would also give new impetus to commercially oriented solutions. Artistic disciplines could provide a source of inspiration and thought-provoking impulses to this end.
Gerlinde Schuller  |  03.04.07

Here is another article on Information Design 


LATER.....

The New York Times, 1995

I really like the idea of fingerprints associated with mapping...using each unique print as a grid. I can't decide if this would work well or not...but just a thought.  The graphics included below I liked for their different approaches to representing information. Perhaps I will start moving toward the info-graphic direction? Not sure yet...

The Orchestra, Boston Globe, 1981

The Pre-Election Pulse, TIME Magazine, 1980