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This new infographic from CertaPro Painters of Louisville shows how color evokes emotion and triggers your senses. It beautifully explores colors that should and should not be used in interior decorating, as well as why certain colors are used in advertising.

Infographic by Finer Hosting

Typefaces and fonts are at the forefront of design, whether it be designing a word document for work or designing a Fortune 500 website. The fonts that we choose can determine how we portray ourselves – as an individual or a business. The team at Finer Hosting, a managed hosting provider, have produced an awesome iconographic that presents some of the more common typefaces, what they are, and how to spot them in a crowd of millions.

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Infographic by TechKing.

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What does a top notch graphic designer have in common with an amateur photographer who uploads his weekend pictures on Facebook? They both love Photoshop! This brilliant Adobe product has been the geek’s darling for almost two decades. The Darwinian Evolution of Photoshop.

Original Post by Andy Crofford on testking September 09, 2010

Originally posted by Andy Crofford on January 01, 2011 on Testking.

One of the most fascinating and overlooked elements web designers tend to overlook is the influence of color on their website visitors. While a color palette may look visually pleasing, is it psychologically pleasing? When you go to design your next website pay special attention to your color choices and what they actually mean. To help you out with that we have created this beautiful infographic.

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Sébastien Pierre is the Founder of FFunction, a Montréal-based data visualization company. His company created an infographic titled: "What is Data Visualization?"

Pierre was asked for an explanation about the infographic and how it defines data visualization.

According to Pierre, definitions for the terms in the infographic are as follows:

• Fields: Design, Communication, Information and their mix: Visual Communication, Data journalism, User Interface
• Raw elements: Look & Feel, Idea, Data
• Disciplines: Journalism, Information Architecture, Typography
• Process elements: Visual Design, Objective, Dataset
• Outputs: Layout, Story, Report, Data Analysis, Dashboard, Interface
• Final result: Form, Concept, Knowledge
• Core competencies: Readability, Logic, Usability
• Core values: Simplicity, Informativeness, Relevance

Data visualization start with being a journalist to some extent, Pierre said. You need to find the data and analyze it. This discovery process means finding data sets that are of good quality and up to date.

Data visualization is also about information and communication, Pierre said. Visualization should reveal hidden patterns and trends within the data. It should explore a topic, help make a discovery or tell a story. Whatever the goal, you have to turn the data into information that people can understand.

Once the information and direction are defined, the visualization itself needs to be formalized.

Pierre:
"Will it be interactive or static? Will it be used as a tool or to illustrate something? Depending on how we position the visualization, it will be more demanding on UI aspects or on visual aspects. Dashboards, online reports and interactive web visualizations need a solid understanding of UI design, while infographics and print reports require a strong foundation of typography, layout and visual communication."

The design ties it all together. It makes the visualization appealing and interesting. The design must balance the simple and the complex. The data visualization needs to communicate the complexity of the information without losing its richness or depth.

Data visualization requires expertise from multiple disciplines. It mixes different perspectives. It is what Pierre and his group built into this infographic. The art of developing infographics with big data draws from the world of print journalism, statistical analysis and the graphic arts. It will continue to rely on these established disciplines. The difference will be accessibility. More people will have access to tools and the knowledge needed to create infographics that simply communicate complex concepts while also maintaining a richness that helps express a deeper meaning.