Inspiration from Info We Trust #024 🎨

Inspiration from Info We Trust #024

Remastered color designs, a new site, and a crazy Cali map.

🎨 ALBUMS COLORS
France produced a stunning series of 400+ thematic maps in its multi-decade series of the Albums de Statistique Graphique. The below selection of circle marks gives a hint of the design ingenuity this series contains.
 

Across Advent 2019 we analyzed and digitized Album color palettes. Beautiful (and weird) color designs were selected and digitized into vector patterns. For example, see how this wonderful purple sequential palette was remastered:

Twenty-five sequential, diverging, categorical, and grouped color designs were remastered in total:

The Albums supply endless opportunity for learning and inspiration. See lots more in exquisite detail plus access all remastered color designs for your own projects in a new Info We Trust design essay:

🖥 REBORN!
Info We Trust's domain was completely rebuilt over the holiday with fresh design and organization. It now includes slick pages like Work and Essays (check out how nice the essays read now!), plus a crisp tagline:

🗺 THE MOUNTAINS OF CALIFORNIA
1940s Isotype cartography inspired the latest Info We Trust creation: Cross-sections through California. This unique look at the great mountains and valleys of California is almost finished. Here is a preview of the beginning of this super tall (9x24!) map:

I want to Kickstart a limited print run of this California map as part of a broader goal of brining more viz into the real world. I hope you will agree that this map deserves to be held.

Please reply directly to tell me your thoughts on the print run, share a favorite viz, or offer any advice for how this newsletter experiment can be improved.

Onward! -RJ

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