THE PAGE
95 Tables and charts

THESE “INFOGRAPHICS” should be typographically related to the body copy with which they coexist. There are a number of excellent texts specializing in designing tabular material. This type of design work is a specialty all its own. However well designed tables and charts—and all info-graphics—may be, the typography must be designed with an eye toward proportional relationships and stylistic compatibility with the surrounding text.

Project
Feature spread

Creative Director
Donald Partyka

Illustrator
Jared Schneidman

Client
Americas Quarterly

This complex infographic combines a number of tables and charts in a very straightforward and legible manner, using simple typestyles and plenty of space to lay out the charts, tables, and diagrams.

Project
Single page

Design Director
David Curcurito

Art Director
Darhil Crook

Associate Art Director
Erin Jang

Client
Esquire

To analyze the characteristics of the subjects of a story, this infographic, set at a vertiginous tilt, slices and dices using a composite of profiles. It is stylistically in keeping with the entire issue’s package of profiles.

Project
Feature spread

Creative Director
Dean Markadakis

Designer
Jana Meier

Photographer
Jonathan Worth

Client
Fast Company

Lists of statistics (which can otherwise be visually boring) have been enlivened here by the use of simple graphics, changing the scale, color, orientation, and expression of numbers and text.