Interactive Infographics

The development of powerful software and programming languages such as Flash, Java, and HTML5 has enabled designers to convey highly complex information in dynamic ways that allow the user to explore the information interactively. This can make the experience of learning about even normally dry information—such as how recipients of grant money benefited from their award—unusually interesting.

London-based designer and data journalist David McCandless specializes in information design, and his website Information is Beautiful http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/ is a compendium of his own information design work and those of other designers. He links to an interactive display created for the Roostein Hopkins Foundation, a UK organization that distributes grants to artists, art students, art galleries, and colleges of art and design to further their studies and creative ambitions. http://www.rhfoundation.org.uk/