Gallery: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at How Infographics Are Made
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In the *Infographics Designers' Sketchbooks* we go behind the scenes and look at the rough sketches for more than 50 designers.
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Carolin + Young's Mem:o started like all their designs: with a sharp pencil and a notebook. They wanted to create a clean, concise app to help sort through data.
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Headcase Design's ideas for illustrating *Time*'s 100 most influential people.
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Nigel Holmes looking at how to replace words with pictures. Here's a look at various projects.
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Tim Leong's visual guide to the comic book universe started as a very messy web of circles and lines.
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Russ Maschmeyer is a product designer Facebook. Here you see examples of his sketches for various projects.
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Here is a music score based on the sinking of the Andrea Gail, a fishing boat that gurgled to its death in 1991. This is what it looks like on paper.
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This is what it looks like visualized in 3-D. Each mast represents an act.
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