I love getting submissions and requests from designers to show their infographics on my website. Infographics are a fun, creative challenge and they appeal in so many ways to online readers; displaying others’ work is a great way to promote the challenge of communicating in this burgeoning medium. This is
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Graphic design, for those who are not designers, often seems a difficult task to master. Aren’t there thousands of rules that apply to colors, typefaces, layouts, user experience, and so forth? Well, yes, technically. But the reality is, designing successful documents can be stripped down to just a few basic
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Creativity is a fascinating concept, one I’ve wrestled with in my teaching and one I’ve debated with my students. Can creativity be taught? Are some people just naturally more creative than others? What if you don’t feel like a creative type? Is there any way to get more creative? I’m
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Ever needed to know the difference between communism and socialism? What about the difference between American corporations and French corporations? Try taking an explanation from Howard Lindzon about what each political perspective would do with two cows, and then visualize it with a hilarious infographic created by Kyla Tom Design on
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Evan Brown, developer of the awesome design website, DesignMantic, and creator of the now-famous 10 Commandments of Typogrophy, has developed another fantastic infographic that clarifies how we should be using color. Need to know if you’re using color effectively? Check out these 10 commandments. Courtesy of: Designmantic.com
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With the explosion of internet pornography in the last two decades, it’s worth exploring just how detrimental it is to society. We’ve long recognized illicit drugs as problematic because they lead to violence, depression, suicide, and crime. But is it possible that something a person can do in the privacy
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Plagiarism is a hot topic in the academic world, but it applies in all aspects of our lives. In a country and culture that values intellectual property, it is imperative that we are conscious of plagiarism guidelines and standards. The reality is, in many facets of life, when we make
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Bad PowerPoint design may be just as detrimental to your presentation as smelling like a horse. When you have poorly designed slides, a few things happen: your professionalism is questioned (because you essentially tell the people looking at your PowerPoint that you don’t know how to create professional work); your
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How Visually Literate Are You? A 15-Question Quiz to Test Your Skills
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The Huffington Post just released a fascinating infographic developed by Pixart Printing–a European leader in selling graphic and print services–about printing costs. Would you believe that if the entire world used Comic Sans instead of Helvetica, we’d use 69 million more cartridges of ink? Or if we used American spelling instead
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