If you have some trouble balancing your serious business side with your fun side, a look at the How to Match Shirt and Tie Patterns infographic could be helpful. The infographic from Beckett Simonon shows a few examples of complicated patterns that work together, and then some to definitely stay away from. So you've been wearing solid ties and shirts for a while, you think you look great but you feel is time to earn some extra style points by adding some patterns? No worries, we got you covered! Shirt and tie patterns are great if you want to stand out from the crowd, they are also fun and will bring a new life to your look. Just make sure your pattern groupings are far from making people dizzy and fall hypnotized. We made this cheat guide so you can learn the basics and http://attorneyattorney infographics.com/ develop your own combinations and style from there. Enjoy! Great visual explanation design that stays focused, and tells one story really well. Thanks to Nicholas for sending in the link!
For the original version including any supplementary images or video, visit http://www.coolinfographics.com/blog/2013/8/13/how-to-match-shirt-and-tie-patterns.html
Saturday, August 31, 2013
The History Of Music Media - From Vinyl To Bitstreams
A creative timeline view of The History of: Music Media infographic from Indigo Boom . The colors track the popularity of each new and old source of music media through the years. From left to right it goes 0% popular to 100% popular. Selling music as recordings first became possible in 1877 with the introduction of the phonograph cylinder. Since then media formats have developed and radically changed the way we listen, and recently even where we can listen to music. We have looked at the last 30 years of music format development and popularity in the infographic below. Beautiful, colorful design. This is a vertical stacked area chart covering the last 30+ years of music sales. You can see that in 1980 (where the chart begins) vinyl was already in decline. CDs have had a big run, but downloads are obviously growing to become the new dominant method to get music. I like that the design tells one story really well, and doesn't get into a whole bunch of extra data points. It's a simple, clear story to the readers who can understand the content quickly and then move on. The source listing of The RIAA is too vague. Source listings should include a link to the specific data so others can examine the original dataset if they wish. I went to the RIAA site, and it appears that they are selling this information in a report. Publishing the data publicly in an infographic http://attorneyinfographics.com/ may be a violation of the terms of service or copyright of the report, but I can't tell because I can't determine where the specific data originated. The URL to the infographic landing page should be included in the footer of the design so readers can find the original when they come across a smaller version posted on another site. Not all sites are good about linking back to the original. Thanks to Bogdan for sending in the link!
For the original version including any supplementary images or video, visit http://www.coolattorney infographics.com/blog/2013/8/20/the-history-of-music-media-from-vinyl-to-bitstreams.html
For the original version including any supplementary images or video, visit http://www.coolattorney infographics.com/blog/2013/8/20/the-history-of-music-media-from-vinyl-to-bitstreams.html
Thursday, August 29, 2013
The Periodic Table of Alcohol
The Periodic Table of Alcohol infographic does a good job of organizing popular alcoholic drinks in the periodic table design format. Posted on Visual.ly by designer Mayra Magalhães ( mayra.artes ), This infographic shows important information about the most famous alcoholic beverages. It's unclear who the infographic was designed for. The footer of the infographic lists BestCollegesOnline.com , the landing page on Visual.ly lists the Consumer Media Network and the URL actually links to CarInsurance.org . It looks like http://attorneyinfographics.com/ this design is a modification of a design from 2011 done for Best Colleges Online called the College Student's Guide to Boozing . I'm guessing Mayra uploaded this recently to be included as a part of her design portfolio.
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Choosing a CMS for Your Business

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Tuesday, August 27, 2013
Where Does the Money Go?
Where Does the Money Go? from LifeHacker breaks down the average spending habits of U.S. consumers. The graphic above breaks down how the average US household spends their paycheck, according to the US Department of Labor. As you can see, housing, transportation, and http://attorneyattorney infographics.com/ food are the biggest costs. Because they take so much out of our paychecks, it makes sense to concentrate on reducing spending in these areas. Designed as a infographic piece of a larger article, the design does a good job of focusing on one data visualization. It also has minimal text because the additional details are all included in the text of the article. Because the graphic can be shared separately from the article, the infographic should include a mention of the article, LifeHacker's logo, and the URL back to the original.
For the original version including any supplementary images or video, visit http://www.coolinfographics.com/blog/2013/8/26/where-does-the-money-go.html
For the original version including any supplementary images or video, visit http://www.coolinfographics.com/blog/2013/8/26/where-does-the-money-go.html
How Big Are The Biggest Waves Ever Surfed?
By using a well recognizable symbol like the Statue of Liberty, the How Big Are The Biggest Waves Ever Surfed? infographic from San Diego Surfing School can show you how much higher you can get with surfing than other sports. Now that a 100-foot wave has been surfed, the bar has been raised yet again for somebody to step up and set a new record. Until then, we take a look at some other feats of record height to get a better perspective on just how big the biggest waves ever surfed really were. Clear design that tells one story really well. The visual comparison to the Statue of Liberty is instantly recognizable to readers. Thanks to Melissa for sending in the link!
For the original version including any supplementary images or video, visit http://www.coolinfographics.com/blog/2013/8/6/how-big-are-the-biggest-waves-ever-surfed.html
For the original version including any supplementary images or video, visit http://www.coolinfographics.com/blog/2013/8/6/how-big-are-the-biggest-waves-ever-surfed.html
Monday, August 26, 2013
The 2012 Feltron Annual Report

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Apple's Infographic Timeline Poster

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Sunday, August 25, 2013
Choosing a CMS for Your Business

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Worldwide ATM Cyber Attack
The Worldwide ATM Cyber Attack infographic from 41st Parameter talks about the international internet heist that stole $45 Million in May 2013. The infographic centers around how they did it, what they took, and then how it could of been stopped. Most people gasped at today's headlines about the massive, $45 million ATM heist, which was engineered by a highly-organized gang of cybercriminals. Consumers and banking executives alike have the same worry today: Is their money and account information safe? Here at 41st Parameter, the news simply highlighted what we already knew – financial institutions are extremely vulnerable http://attorneyattorney infographics.com/ to increasingly sophisticated cyber criminals who, as in this case, are able to steal data from pre-paid ATM cards and then quickly loot machines across the globe. Most banking systems today are connected directly or in-directly to the Internet. This brings about a multitude of unintentional exposures, all of which allows criminals to exploit them to their advantage. Given the scale of the global credit card networks, it is almost impossible to detect every kind of attack. Similar to fighting terrorism, you can be successful in preventing something 100 times, but the bad guys only need to be successful once. Banks and financial institutions should use all of the available data and fraud detection solutions to fight fire with fire – and build better defenses for the 21st Century. Indeed, the shocking $45M price tag for banks should be a call to action to put better protections in place. This attack is NOT the last one, and if the modus operandi proves to be successful, crooks will exploit it time and again. Good use of an infographic as a step-by-step visual explanation. Good source listing with the URL directly to the detailed news article. The footer should include a copyright statement and the URL to the original infographic landing page so people can find the full-size version after seeing the infographic on other sites. Thanks to Caroline for sending in the link!
For the original version including any supplementary images or video, visit http://www.coolinfographics.com/blog/2013/8/22/worldwide-atm-cyber-attack.html
For the original version including any supplementary images or video, visit http://www.coolinfographics.com/blog/2013/8/22/worldwide-atm-cyber-attack.html
Saturday, August 24, 2013
How Big Are The Biggest Waves Ever Surfed?
By using a well recognizable symbol like the Statue of Liberty, the How Big Are The Biggest Waves http://attorneyinfographics.com/ Ever Surfed? infographic from San Diego Surfing School can show you how much higher you can get with surfing than other sports. Now that a 100-foot wave has been surfed, the bar has been raised yet again for somebody to step up and set a new record. Until then, we take a look at some other feats of record height to get a better perspective on just how big the biggest waves ever surfed really were. Clear design that tells one story really well. The visual comparison to the Statue of Liberty is instantly recognizable to readers. Thanks to Melissa for sending in the link!
For the original version including any supplementary images or video, visit http://www.coolinfographics.com/blog/2013/8/6/how-big-are-the-biggest-waves-ever-surfed.html
For the original version including any supplementary images or video, visit http://www.coolinfographics.com/blog/2013/8/6/how-big-are-the-biggest-waves-ever-surfed.html
Friday, August 23, 2013
Design Client Engagement Poster

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Thursday, August 22, 2013
Choosing a CMS for Your Business

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How Big Are The Biggest Waves Ever Surfed?
By using a well recognizable symbol like the Statue of Liberty, the How Big Are The Biggest Waves Ever Surfed? infographic from San Diego Surfing School can show you how much higher you http://attorneyinfographics.com/ can get with surfing than other sports. Now that a 100-foot wave has been surfed, the bar has been raised yet again for somebody to step up and set a new record. Until then, we take a look at some other feats of record height to get a better perspective on just how big the biggest waves ever surfed really were. Clear design that tells one story really well. The visual comparison to the Statue of Liberty is instantly recognizable to readers. Thanks to Melissa for sending in the link!
For the original version including any supplementary images or video, visit http://www.coolattorney infographics.com/blog/2013/8/6/how-big-are-the-biggest-waves-ever-surfed.html
For the original version including any supplementary images or video, visit http://www.coolattorney infographics.com/blog/2013/8/6/how-big-are-the-biggest-waves-ever-surfed.html
Tuesday, August 20, 2013
The History of Music Media - From Vinyl To Bitstreams
A creative timeline view of The History of: Music Media infographic from Indigo Boom . The colors track the popularity of each new and old source of music media through the years. From left to right it goes 0% popular to 100% popular. Selling music as recordings first became possible in 1877 with the introduction of the phonograph cylinder. Since then media formats have developed and radically changed the way we listen, and recently even where we can listen to music. We have looked at the last 30 years of music format development and popularity in the infographic below. Beautiful, colorful design. This is a vertical stacked area chart covering the last 30+ years of music sales. You can see that in 1980 (where the chart begins) vinyl was already in decline. CDs have had a big run, but downloads are obviously growing to become the new dominant method to get music. I like that the design tells one story really well, and doesn't get into a whole bunch of extra data points. It's a simple, clear story to the readers who can understand the content quickly and then move on. The source listing of The RIAA is too vague. Source listings should include a link to the specific data so others can examine the original dataset if they wish. I went to the RIAA site, and it appears that they are selling this information in a report. Publishing the data publicly in an infographic may be a violation of the terms of service or copyright of the report, but I can't tell because I can't determine where the specific data originated. The URL to the infographic landing page should be included in the footer of the design so readers can find the original when they come across a smaller version posted on another site. Not all sites are good about linking back to the original. Thanks to Bogdan for sending in the link!
For the original version including any supplementary images or video, visit http://www.coolattorney infographics.com/blog/2013/8/20/the-history-of-music-media-from-vinyl-to-bitstreams.html
For the original version including any supplementary images or video, visit http://www.coolattorney infographics.com/blog/2013/8/20/the-history-of-music-media-from-vinyl-to-bitstreams.html
Monday, August 19, 2013
How to Match Shirt and Tie Patterns
If you have some trouble balancing your serious business side with your fun side, a look at the How to Match Shirt and Tie Patterns infographic could be helpful. The infographic from Beckett Simonon shows a few examples of complicated patterns that work together, and then some to definitely stay away from. So you've been wearing solid ties and shirts for a while, you think you look great but you feel is time to earn some extra style points by adding some patterns? No worries, we got you covered! Shirt and tie patterns are great if you want to stand out from the crowd, they are also fun and will bring a new life to your look. Just make sure your pattern groupings are far from making people dizzy and fall hypnotized. We made this cheat guide so you can learn the basics and develop your own combinations and style from there. Enjoy! Great visual explanation design that stays focused, and tells one story really well. Thanks to Nicholas for sending in the link!
For the original version including any supplementary images or video, visit http://www.coolattorney infographics.com/blog/2013/8/13/how-to-match-shirt-and-tie-patterns.html
For the original version including any supplementary images or video, visit http://www.coolattorney infographics.com/blog/2013/8/13/how-to-match-shirt-and-tie-patterns.html
Choosing a CMS for Your Business

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Sunday, August 18, 2013
What Do 7 Billion People Do?
This is a page out of Funders and Founders future book. It is a circle graph of the population of the http://attorneyinfographics.com/ world. The What Do 7 Billion People Do? infographic simplifies the worlds jobs into broad groups. Entrepreneurs are still the smallest group! We explain entrepreneurship and startups visually through infographics . Here you can see draft notes from our future book.
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For the original version including any supplementary images or video, visit http://www.coolinfographics.com/blog/2013/7/30/what-do-7-billion-people-do.html
How to Match Shirt and Tie Patterns
If you have some trouble balancing your serious business side with your fun side, a look at the How to Match Shirt and Tie lawyer infographic Patterns infographic could be helpful. The infographic from Beckett Simonon shows a few examples of complicated patterns that work together, and then some to definitely stay away from. So you've been wearing solid ties and shirts for a while, you think you look great but you feel is time to earn some extra style points by adding some patterns? No worries, we got you covered! Shirt and tie patterns are great if you want to stand out from the crowd, they are also fun and will bring a new life to your look. Just make sure your pattern groupings are far from making people dizzy and fall hypnotized. We made this cheat guide so you can learn the basics and develop your own combinations and style from there. Enjoy! Great visual explanation design that stays focused, and tells one story really well. Thanks to Nicholas for sending in the link!
For the original version including any supplementary images or video, visit http://www.coolinfographics.com/blog/2013/8/13/how-to-match-shirt-and-tie-patterns.html
For the original version including any supplementary images or video, visit http://www.coolinfographics.com/blog/2013/8/13/how-to-match-shirt-and-tie-patterns.html
Saturday, August 17, 2013
Don't Design by Committee!

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Don't Design by Committee!

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Don't Design by Committee!

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Don't Design by Committee!

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Don't Design by Committee!

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Don't Design by Committee!

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Don't Design by Committee!

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Don't Design by Committee!

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Don't Design by Committee!

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Don't Design by Committee!

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Don't Design by Committee!

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What the Health? Understanding Obamacare's 11 Year Health Plan
Interested in the new health plan but have no idea what it means? What the Health? Understanding Obamacare's 11 Year Health Plan infographic from Clarity Way breaks http://attorneyinfographics.com/ down each year of the 11-year health care plan of Obamacare. If the re-election of Barack Obama as America's 44th President of the United States means anything, it is that American citizens can expect a little more consistency within their legislation. Among the most notable acts of legislation promised by Obama during both of his campaigns for the Presidency was the concern over America's health care system. When our 44th President first earned his chair in leading the nation, he immediately took initiative to put into action a new proposal for health care reform called the Affordable Care Act. And now that he has regained his position, we can count on seeing this initiative furthered in the next 4 years! But among this 11 year plan was a ton of confusing political jargon, making it easy for Americans to misinterpret how the Act would impact themselves and their nation. So as a duty to our followers and role in the promotion of health, we wanted to create a little bit easier of an explanation of the Affordable Care Act! This health reform infographic breaks down the Affordable Care Act in an effort to explain how it will affect each and every citizen, from small businesses to large ones, college students to parents, and senior citizens to the young! It's important that you know about the Affordable Care Act and understand that if we had maintained our status-quo, over 14,000 Americans would lose their health insurance daily! I think there's too much text in this design, but it does walk the reader through each year, step by step. The statistics should have been visualized. Big fonts are NOT data visualizations, and I see this done by designers all the time. Big fonts don't provide any context, and don't make the numbers any easier for the audience to understand. Thanks to Adrienne for sending in the link!
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For the original version including any supplementary images or video, visit http://www.coolattorney infographics.com/blog/2013/7/22/what-the-health-understanding-obamacares-11-year-health-plan.html
Friday, August 16, 2013
The 2012 Feltron Annual Report

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The 2012 Feltron Annual Report

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Thursday, August 15, 2013
Apple's Infographic Timeline Poster

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Tuesday, August 13, 2013
Units of Measure Calendar

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Monday, August 12, 2013
It's Time to Empower Moms

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Kim Rees and Dino Citraro - What Makes an Infographic Cool?

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Sunday, August 11, 2013
Don't Design by Committee!
From 7 steps to create a killer brand , by Jim Price, posted on StockLogos.com It's good to be inclusive and seek opinions and ideas. But if you form http://attorneyinfographics.com/ a committee and put everything to a vote, you're likely to end up with a least-common-denominator brand that's bland, uninspired, and may look more like a hybrid camel-elephant than the thoroughbred you'd hoped for.
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For the original version including any supplementary images or video, visit http://www.coolinfographics.com/blog/2013/8/7/dont-design-by-committee.html
Saturday, August 10, 2013
Apple's Infographic Timeline Poster

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Thursday, August 8, 2013
PepsiCo Q2 2013 Performance Infographics
PepsiCo has begun to publish an official infographic along with each of their quarterly earnings reports to investors and analysts. The PepsiCo Q2 2013 Performance infographic was just released online to coincide with the press release and earning call to analysts. I love seeing attorney infographics used in this way, and I think we will be seeing many more of them from other companies. Visualizaing the financial data can make the complex filings much easier for investors to understand. As much as I love this idea, this particular design needs help visualizing the data. Big fonts are not data visualizations, and many of the financial stististics presented were shown in text only. It takes a data visualization to put the values into perspective for the audience, and make them easier to understand. This is the second http://attorneyinfographics.com/ infographic in the series. It appears that each one will be released with a unique website dedicated to hosting the infographic. This on can be found at: www.pepsicoinfographicq2.com , and a PDF version is also available to download from the site. You can find the infographic from the prior qurter here: www.pepsicoinfographicq1.com . The infographics were also published on the PepsiCo Multimedia Downloads section of the Media page. Thanks to Chris Hoyt for posting on Google+
For the original version including any supplementary images or video, visit http://www.coolinfographics.com/blog/2013/7/25/pepsico-q2-2013-performance-infographics.html
For the original version including any supplementary images or video, visit http://www.coolinfographics.com/blog/2013/7/25/pepsico-q2-2013-performance-infographics.html
It's Time to Empower Moms

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Wednesday, August 7, 2013
Death & Taxes 2014 Poster and Interview
The new 2014 Death & Taxes poster has been released, and it is fantastic! Visualizing the President's proposed budget for next year, each department and major expense item is represented with proportionally official website sized circles so the viewer can understand how big they are in comparison to the rest of the budget. You can purchase the 24" x 36" printed poster for $24.95. Since 2004, Death and Taxes has been depicting the federal budget and has grown into a powerhouse of information. For the FY2014 budget, this poster contains over 500 departments, agencies, programs and just about everything else the government can spend money on. It is still the single most open and accessible record of government spending ever created. All in six square feet. Previously, the Death & Taxes series has been a project of Jess Bachman ( ByJess.net ), but this year the series has been taken over by the great team at Timeplots . Owner Nathaniel Pearlman graciously spent some time answering some of my questions: Cool Infographics: What's new in the 2014 design of Death & Taxes? Nathaniel Pearlman: Timeplots is continuing the Death & Taxes poster franchise, taking it over from its creator, Jess Bachman. We agreed to do this before the scheduled release of the FY2014 budget. To produce the poster efficiently and meet the expectations of an audience already familiar with its look and feel, we minimized big changes and largely stayed with Jess's design aesthetic. We kept the location of departments, labeled and colored expenditure numbers in the same format; and, the Office of Governmental Ethics is still the smallest circle plotted on the poster. We did, however, make some subtle design changes. In the bottom-right corner we converted pie charts to a bar chart. We also changed the "For Comparison" section bubble charts to horizontal bar charts. Bars also serve as a visual clue that the information here is different and you see immediately that they differ from the bubbles depicting the discretionary budget in the main area of the poster. We also unified the presentation style throughout the poster. We also omitted the "How much does it cost you" section. Cool Infographics: The Death & Taxes poster design is now being made by the team at Timeplots, what are the major differences from the prior posters that were designed by Jess Bachman? Nathaniel Pearlman: Timeplots has a four year history of visualizing complex data with compelling design. We have diverse skills and resources and may introduce changes in future posters like dark type against a lighter background for ease of reading; advancing visual unity either by replacing the photos with icons, or by making all color photographs more duotone, or monochromatic; and finally, crafting the type in the header section so that it has more personality. We are also thinking about how to improve the substance of the poster. We would love to hear feedback or suggestions for improvement from your readers. Cool Infographics: When did the 2014 data become available, and how long did it take you design the poster? Nathaniel Pearlman: The data was released on April 11, 2013. To prepare, we wrote some data queries and scripts based on the 2013 data about one week before the release. Once we got the 2014 data, we just ran the 2013 scripts. It took about two days to get all of the circles in place on the poster. The design and crafting took longer. The poster went out for review to experts about a month after the we got the data. Of course we were working on many other projects in between as well. Cool Infographics: What software applications were used for the Death & Taxes poster design? Nathaniel Pearlman: Scripting and plotting were done in R—an open source statistical application that we have used for other Timeplots posters. The design completed in Adobe Illustrator. Jess created the previous Death and Taxes with Excel and Photoshop, so there was no code or design template we could borrow or reuse. Our programming and design process was new to Death & Taxes, but we decided to go this route because this process would present data more accurately and make future updating much easier. Cool Infographics: What's the most interesting thing you learned from the 2014 data? Nathaniel Pearlman: We guess it shouldn't be a surprise, but data shows how trivial in the context of the whole budget are some of the biggest political tangles. Things like the National Endowment for the Humanities or the Corporation for Public Broadcasting are very small by comparison to big ticket items. The nice thing about the poster is that each viewer will be able to reach their own conclusions, based on the area of they wish to investigate or focus upon. Each department, each item, has its own story. Cool Infographics: Where do you have them printed, what are the printing specs and why? Nathaniel Pearlman: The 2014 poster is on a 36" by 24" sized, 80 lb. cover paper. We use a local printer for offset printing and through a process of several proofs we have more control over the colors and the final look and feel of the print. The 2014 poster is slightly lighter than the 2012 one. The lighter paper can roll more easily into tubes without getting creases. Cool Infographics: Social media has always been a big part of marketing the Death & Taxes poster. What are your plans to promote the 2014 poster? Nathaniel Pearlman: Social media is important to us. We have been receiving supportive comments and thoughtful suggestions through a number of channels. Death & Taxes has its own Facebook channel: ( https://www.facebook.com/pages/Death-and-Taxes/373639641532 ). You can also follow Timeplots on Twitter ( @timeplots ) and Facebook ( https://www.facebook.com/timeplots ) to receive notice of latest news. Keep your eyes open to these places. Graphicacy , (the consulting arm of Timeplots) is also working on an interactive version using the same budget data to pair with the poster. That interactive, presenting the same information, will enable interested viewers to explore the federal budget online. The poster now sells at Timeplots and Amazon . Cool Infographics: Prior versions have been available online in a zooming viewer. Is the 2014 version also available in this format? What zooming tool is being used? Nathaniel Pearlman: Yes, you are able to zoom on a watermarked version of the 2014 poster on our Timeplots site. The zoom tool is the default for our shopping content management system, and it allows for crystal-clear views of the information, watermarks aside. While you will have a good sense for the design and presentation of the poster by viewing it online and zooming-in on its details, we believe the print poster will surprise you with its vibrant colors on smooth paper, sharp type, and scale. You can also check out Jess Bachman's thoughts about the new version in his blog post on Visual.ly
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For the original version including any supplementary images or video, visit http://www.coolattorney infographics.com/blog/2013/7/26/death-taxes-2014-poster-and-interview.html