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 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!
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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!
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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

This graphic will help you figure out what is the best Content Management System (CMS) for you and your business. Discover what a CMS is, types of CMS, popular CMS, market shares and advantages with, The Most Popular CMS for Your Business Needs infographic posted on Dot Com Infoway .  Chennai, India Dot Com Infoway (DCI), a premier IT company providing offshore IT outsourcing solutions to businesses across the globe, has announced the release of its latest infographic, titled "Content Management Systems: Choosing the Right One for Your Business Needs". The infographic provides a top to bottom look at various CMSs and chalks out a road map for organizations, businesses and individuals looking to choose content management systems perfect for their needs. The infographic outlines the fundamentals of content management systems, the industries in which they find use and the types of CMSs available. It is replete with information, data, statistics and illustrations such as the date of initial release, the platform used, the latest version, the number of themes it has, average setup and customization cost, average monthly maintenance cost, the number of websites using the CMS, the popular websites that use the platform and the top industries using the CMS. "With the recent exponential growth of nightly builds of CMSs' modules and plugins, we thought this would be the perfect http://attorneyattorney infographics.com/ time to showcase the CMS industry with an infographic that provides users with an all-around perspective. Our run through of key aspects of various CMSs, will help firms make better business decisions by taking advantage of all the information at their disposal," said Venkatesh C. R., CEO of Dot Com Infoway. The infographic also provides statistics on the market share of various content management systems. Based on the analysis and research data, WordPress, with a market share of 54.4%, has a competitive advantage over other top CMSs. Following WordPress, (with margins of difference of more than 45%) are Joomla and Drupal with market shares of 8.9% and 7% respectively. Personally, I run this site on the Squarespace.com CMS platform, and I'm very surprised that it wasn't listed in the infographic.  I realize there are over 1,200 CMS platforms, so they had to make some hard choices about which ones to include. The design does a good job of using the platform logos to clearly identify the different players.  I wish the numerical data associated with each platform was visualized instead of just shown in text.  It very hard for a reader to compare the costs or stats between the platforms when all of the data is only in text. Also, the data is not clearly sourced.  The sites where the data was gathered from are listed, but no specific links the pages with the actual data used, like market share numbers.  Most of the source sites are actually lookup and comparison tools, so it would be hard to list specific URLs for some of the data.
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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.
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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 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!
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The 2012 Feltron Annual Report

The 2012 Feltron Annual Report is a report by information designer Nicholas Felton whose numbers were gathered with a custom-built iPhone app called Reporter. At random intervals each day the app sent reminders to complete a survey. The results of these questions were saved alongside background measurements to form the basis of this document. You can see the examples of the report at Feltron.com and buy it at the shop . An extensive write up can be found on Fast Co Design : Today, you probably know  Nicholas Felton  best for his most widely seen work,  Facebook's Timeline . But since 2005, he's been working on a cult-favorite project all his own, the annual Feltron Report. The 2012 version is  out now for $28 . As always, the report is a meticulously documented year in review of everything he's done, presented in a series of rich infographics that push the boundaries on personal data quantification. With a glance, you'll learn some of Felton's most intimate http://attorneyinfographics.com/ details. Each day, he consumes coffee around 10:40am and booze around 8:38pm. He spends about 4x as much time with his girlfriend as his mother. And on June 20, he shot a Glock 22.  
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