About
Many GoodGraphics-minded people will meet at the upcoming DD4D conference in Paris. The best-known historical precursor of GoodGraphics is Otto Neurath’s Isotype, a much more recent initiative in the same spirit is Gapminder.
Some examples of GoodGraphics (planned) activities:
- building a community of people that share an interest in the use of information visualization for increasing awareness and understanding of issues that are essential to the well-being of people and/or the planet.
-sharing knowledge about the above, e.g. through presentations and publications.
-creating a searchable online repository of example visualizations and of relevant resources.
-taking initiatives for the creation of specific graphics about particular issues.
-providing organizations (e.g. non-profit organizations, educational institutions, governmental agencies) with “visualization support” (e.g. visual inspiration, specific visualization advice, and/or connections to the right people).
Some other inspiring initiatives in the same spirit are:
Technical Technology Collective [http://www.tacticaltech.org], especially Visualizing Information for Advocacy [http://www.tacticaltech.org/infodesign]
Example graphics @ GOOD [http://www.flickr.com/photos/goodmagazine/sets/72157618896371005/]
The Story of Stuff [http://www.storyofstuff.com]
Do Good Design [http://www.davidberman.com/social/dogood.php] (David Berman)
Design for the World [http://www.designfortheworld.org]
Google Earth Outreach [http://earth.google.com/outreach/index.html]
Games for Change [http://www.gamesforchange.org ]
GoodGraphics founders:
Anders Bouwer, Edial Dekker [http://www.edial.nl], Jaap den Dulk [http://dulk.me/], Yuri Engelhardt [http://yuriweb.com], Raul Niño Zambrano.
If you share our interests, please get in touch with us…