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Streamline water motion graphic

In 2014, Streamline Water –a bottleless water cooler supplier –  wanted a tool to help begin conversations with potential clients. The goal was to educate and inform people about their products before their sales team attempted to sell. They also had a specific metric for success: they wanted to increase contacts with decision-makers by 25 […]

 

Planet Earth control deck

This motion graphic by Eleanor Lutz, creator of the Tabletop Whale blog, was designed to show what Earth’s control panel might look like if it was a spaceship piloted by humans. Each panel includes an animated gifs based on scientifically accurate data. Lutz is a designer in Seattle with a Bachelor’s in molecular biology from […]

 

Innovate Carolina Motion graphic

In 2015, Terence Oliver developed an engaging motion graphic for Innovate Carolina, a promotion and television commercial for the UNC-Chapel Hill’s initiative to discover innovative solutions to contemporary problems like. This particular motion graphic was created for the UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor’s introduction of Innovate Carolina. Oliver spent a considerable amount of time developing storyboards before diving into final […]

 

NYT Lasik interactive

Animated graphics allow us to take viewers where cameras cannot, providing close-up views of microscopic,  invisible, or hard-to-capture processes, events, and actions. For example, if you wanted to explain the delicate process of how Lasik eye surgery is performed, a video camera in the operating room would do little more than chronicle the actions of doctors […]

 

Responsive design for graphics

Accessing interactive graphics on small, smart phone screens versus a large desktop computer screen results in two very different user experiences. Responsive design – designing content to provide an optimal viewing and interaction experience across a wide range of devices – is a common way to address this. In other words, your graphic may be […]

 

Where Are Ü Now visualization

On Aug. 25, 2015, The New York Times published an innovative data visualization within a video. The entire piece, titled “Video: Justin Bieber, Diplo and Skrillex Make a Hit,” explains how the song and sounds behind “Where Are Ü Now” were created. The dataviz itself is similar to what you see when someone’s playing Guitar […]

 

InfoAmazonia costing nature maps

Illegal logging, urban sprawl, advancing agricultural frontier and impacts of infrastructure works are the villains of deforestation in the Amazon. Projections made by a mapping tool indicate that, at current rates, hard woods will last just a little more than two centuries. Fortunately, this same technology may be able to help prevent the deforestation. Costing Nature […]

 

Infoamazonia Deforestation policy map

How much money is spent by the federal Government to preserve the Amazon? Where are resources invested? A look at the modern era of deforestation points out the successes and failures of the official strategy to combat devastation of the Brazilian Amazon. This is a six-month investigation by InfoAmazonia into the history of Brazilian policies […]

InfoAmazonia Visaguas platform

The Amazon has the largest amount of fresh water from Brazil, equalling 73% of all water flow. But the access to sanitation in 771 municipalities in the region is among the worst in the country. In Legal Amazon, 60% of households are served by the main water network. The national average is 82.7%. Visaguas is an InfoAmazonia platform […]

 

InfoAmazonia deforestation map

The InfoAmazonia map below uses remote sensing data to show forest height. Brighter greens correspond to higher vegetation cover. Fish bone patterns indicate roads and human activity. The hatched yellow areas show deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon between the years of 1976 and 1991. Click here to view the complete deforestation map.