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Gradient Mesh: Realistic Curtain

This tutorial teaches you how to illustrate a realistic curtain using the gradient mesh tool. This tutorial is perfect for a designer who want to explore how the gradient mesh works. Working with this feature allows the designer to divide almost any shape into a mesh. Each intersection of horizontal and vertical lines can be colored […]

 

How Farm Machinery Works

Today, farming infuses intuition with the use of modern machinery. In a  Greenfield Daily Reporter news package, Beneath The Beast,  a static diagram that makes sense of a modern planter. At first glance, a planter is a maze of steel, plastic, alloy and aluminum lined with various hoses, tubes and wires. While certainly intimidating from its exterior, the […]

 

Business Journal: Leaving the Suburbs

Large, suburban office parks are moving to downtown Minneapolis. As more and more employers head downtown, it becomes imperative that suburbs add amenities to prevent their current tenants from making the move. The Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal packaged the story with a map that shows the reader the previous and future sites of the 16 […]

 

Streamline water motion graphic

In 2014, Streamline Water –a bottleless water cooler supplier –  wanted a tool to help begin conversations with potential clients. The goal was to educate and inform people about their products before their sales team attempted to sell. They also had a specific metric for success: they wanted to increase contacts with decision-makers by 25 […]

 

Planet Earth control deck

This motion graphic by Eleanor Lutz, creator of the Tabletop Whale blog, was designed to show what Earth’s control panel might look like if it was a spaceship piloted by humans. Each panel includes an animated gifs based on scientifically accurate data. Lutz is a designer in Seattle with a Bachelor’s in molecular biology from […]

 

Innovate Carolina Motion graphic

In 2015, Terence Oliver developed an engaging motion graphic for Innovate Carolina, a promotion and television commercial for the UNC-Chapel Hill’s initiative to discover innovative solutions to contemporary problems like. This particular motion graphic was created for the UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor’s introduction of Innovate Carolina. Oliver spent a considerable amount of time developing storyboards before diving into final […]

 

NYT Lasik interactive

Animated graphics allow us to take viewers where cameras cannot, providing close-up views of microscopic,  invisible, or hard-to-capture processes, events, and actions. For example, if you wanted to explain the delicate process of how Lasik eye surgery is performed, a video camera in the operating room would do little more than chronicle the actions of doctors […]

 

Responsive design for graphics

Accessing interactive graphics on small, smart phone screens versus a large desktop computer screen results in two very different user experiences. Responsive design – designing content to provide an optimal viewing and interaction experience across a wide range of devices – is a common way to address this. In other words, your graphic may be […]

 

Where Are Ü Now visualization

On Aug. 25, 2015, The New York Times published an innovative data visualization within a video. The entire piece, titled “Video: Justin Bieber, Diplo and Skrillex Make a Hit,” explains how the song and sounds behind “Where Are Ü Now” were created. The dataviz itself is similar to what you see when someone’s playing Guitar […]

 

InfoAmazonia costing nature maps

Illegal logging, urban sprawl, advancing agricultural frontier and impacts of infrastructure works are the villains of deforestation in the Amazon. Projections made by a mapping tool indicate that, at current rates, hard woods will last just a little more than two centuries. Fortunately, this same technology may be able to help prevent the deforestation. Costing Nature […]