Mucho gracias to Mark for introducing me to the term infographic. Of course everyone has already seen plenty of them, but I didn’t realize there was a dedicated name for all these snazzy graphs and charts that graphic designers are coming up with these days. Many of which are pretty dang creative.
Here’s a page full of them...
And here’s another one (worth enlarging) where the graphic really fits the info well…
Speaking of infographics, have you seen this?
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/hans_rosling_shows_the_best_stats_you_ve_ever_seen.html
Now you’re getting to a great place!! You might like this:
Milestones in the History of Thematic Cartography, Statistical Graphics, and Data Visualization
http://www.math.yorku.ca/SCS/Gallery/milestone/
and a personal fave using FLASH!!
http://www.s-v.de/dataviz2007/
Dean
For reference theres also a plug in for after effects by Red Giant called Datamator thats good for this type of stuff