*Please pardon the un-styled mess why I am rethinking and re-designing my blog!*
So I’m sitting here on my couch, laptop, tv and ipods connected piping info my way. You could say that i’m downright obsessed with information graphics 
Here’s a roundup of some tasty info graphics covering the election results!
Love the detail on this top info bar on the CNN.com website. The number for each candidate are displayed in a flip-clock style. They also have an interactive flash flash map that is simple and sleek. CNN’s on air graphics are also amazing! And whats this? CNN HAS HOLOGRAMS??? Welcome to the future!!!
http://awesome.goodmagazine.com/goodsheet/goodsheet008VoterGuide.html
Lots of facts displayed in a small area and yet it still had a nice hierarchy.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/155183
This chart is like a “Choose your own adventure game” slightly amusing and interesting way to approach the election.
http://news.yahoo.com/election/2008/dashboard;_ylt=Au07rrhG5ERjmvDWA6fcNPgSq594
This flash based graphic has a tab to create your own scenario much like the newsweek graphic.
Interesting twitter visualization of mentions of key words and how they relate to Obama or McCain
Looks like usa today has the standard interactive map with a barchart above that reaches 270 in the middle.
http://elections.nytimes.com/2008/results/president/map.html
Nice detail on specific counties on the NYT map. They also just added a sweet 3D map of the vote in each county.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/interactives/campaign08/election/uscounties.html
http://elections.foxnews.com/states_map/index.html?stateAbbr=OK
Fox news has a slightly garish gradient flash thing going on. Looks like an icky cross between flash and 3d rendering. heh.
http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/default.asp
Frontpages of the nations newspapers with articles about Obama winning!
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Stephanie says:
CNN graphics are spectacular. A lot of the graphics they commissioned from Hatch Show Print in Nashville. I only know because a great friend from college did all the work (Mary Sullivan)
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November 5th, 2008 at 11:42 am
Stephanie says:
CNN graphics are spectacular. A lot of the graphics they commissioned from Hatch Show Print in Nashville. I only know because a great friend from college did all the work (Mary Sullivan)
LINK:
“Hatch CNN work”
November 5th, 2008 at 11:45 am
Corsi Fotografia says:
Wow, really an interesting collection of visual information graph. Thanks.
November 6th, 2008 at 10:50 pm