July 2, 2009
Artist 1chord & a fib has created a wonderful series of “infographics” that don’t contain any information. Playing off of information design’s current wave of popularity, the fake infographics maintain all the beauty of the medium but lack actual meaning or content.
[via GOOD]
Inspiration to make things better.
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Brilliant!
July 2nd, 2009 at 1:18 pm
Reminds me of Mike Cina used to call “Chartjunk” back in 2001/2 when we were all adding a texture of tiny bitmap pixel fonts and faux information to our designs in order to seem so modern. I think Henry James called it “the solidity of specification” but these things are great for making the unreal appear believable.
July 3rd, 2009 at 4:55 am
Yeah, but they sure do look pretty …
They should rename infographics “infoporn” I think.
GOOD magazine have a fantastic photopool of proper infographics over a Flicr http://www.flickr.com/photos/goodmagazine/
July 6th, 2009 at 6:20 am