Gretchen Chern | Design Research & Strategy

Infographic Design Rules

Late­ly, I’ve come across quite a few arti­cles about info­graph­ic design — deter­min­ing whether or not it is overused and dis­cussing prop­er usage. Here are two arti­cles and my favorite take­aways: The Do’s And Don’ts Of Info­graph­ic Design from Smash­ing Mag­a­zine. Show, Don’t Tell — A rule of cin­e­ma is to show, don’t tell. The […]

Mike Biddle: We can recycle plastic

Mike Bid­dle: We can recy­cle plas­tic | Video on TED.com. Less than 10% of plas­tic trash is recy­cled com­pared to almost 90% of met­als. This is because of the mas­sive­ly com­pli­cat­ed prob­lem of find­ing and sort­ing the dif­fer­ent kinds of plas­tic. Frus­trat­ed by this waste, Mike Bid­dle has devel­oped a cheap and incred­i­bly ener­gy effi­cient […]