Info Graphics: GOOD
via [ GOOD Transparency Archives ]
Kevin Nguyen speaks to the folks responsible for GOOD Magazine’s infographics at the Bygone Bureau
We always found that there’s info lurking behind everything in the world,” says Morgan Clendaniel, deputy editor at GOOD Magazine. “You’ll read an article, but you won’t see the data behind it — nor would you want to. Nobody wants to read an Excel file.”
“The goal is to not just present the information, but do it in a way that also adds some editorial point of view,” Lubliner said. “With a standard chart or graph, the tools you need to communicate the information already exist. That also creates a challenge when it comes to your readers, who already understand how to read a bar graph or a pie chart, but not necessarily understand how to look a photograph of people on the beach and deduce some kind of information from it. It comes down to getting the viewer to look at social issues in a different light, and that begins with how we visualize the information.”
