(EN) Charles Perrault meets infographics. ——– (EN) Charles Perrault incontra l’infografica.
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Pro Nuclear animated/Il pro nucleare animato
(EN) Foratom, the agency that promotes nuclear power in Europe has many members. One of these is the Belgian Nucelar Forum which recently launched an articulated pro-nuclear advertising campaign to “open a dialogue” with Belgian public and influence it to rethink the nuclear option. Infact, while Italy signed on 24 February an agreement with France which paves the way for the building of nuclear power plants, the federal parliament of Belgium approved a law in 2003 regarding the closure of all power plants in the nation before 2025. The campaign uses billboards, a website, TV, press advertising and plays with anti-nuclear statements and on the position of being concerned about the problem. At the beginning (i didnt know who made the video) I watched the animation and I thought it was anti-nuclear but then, at the end of the movie (“nuclear energy is a source of problems, but at the same time a source of solutions”), I realized that it
Jobs losses: confronting recessions / Disoccupazione: recessioni a confronto
(EN) Flowing Data made a cool post collecting some comparative graphics about USA jobs losses in recent recessions. So dont be shy to react like this: (IT) Flowing Data ha pubblicato recentemente una piccola collezione di grafici che comparano la perdita di lavoro USA nelle ultime recessioni. Il risultato d’insieme non è molto confortante, quindi non essere timid* e prenditi il tuo tempo per entrare in panico.
Information is the message / L’informazione è il messaggio
(EN) Don’t confuse the medium with the message. Only the message is information. ——— (IT) Non confondere il medium con il messaggio. Solo quest’ultimo è informazione. (Thanx to infoesthetics)
What makes a visualization effective? / Cosa rende efficace un’infografica?
(EN) MIX Online is a smooth community for web designers and developers. They’ve just launched a new project, Descry, focusing on the power of data and information visualization as a communication tool and they are already sharing a series of four open source web-based visualizations. Explore them. ————- (IT) MIX Online è una community di web designers e developers. Hanno appena lanciato un nuovo progetto, Descry, dedicato al potere dell’infografica come strumento di comunicazione e mettono già a disposizione 4 progetti di visualizzazione grafica online, scaricabili e utilizzabili perchè open source. Esplorali…
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