Actually, I'm pretty much contractually obligated to say something along those lines these days.
I do in fact like infographics a lot and always have, but the obsessive nature with which art directors and editors have fallen in love with them, leaves me with a little chill running down my spine.
Someone far away (apparently in Brazil) announced to the rest of us that they're the NEXT big thing in publishing for delivering content to our readers. Now a large group are treating the idea as a shiny new one that popped out of a box.
Weird.
Luckily infographics have been around for quite a long time and there's plenty of inspiration out there. So have hope all you designers and we shall weather this "new" pictorial pressure... I will survive and hopefully so will my appreciation for a cleverly illustrated idea. Eek. 
Plutchik's Wheel of Emotions
by Shell Greenier via Information Is Beautiful
What I realised again, while discussing my future and past, is that these kind of situations really show me over and over again that I live in a bubble of extreme emotions. In that long meeting I think I could have coloured in QUITE a few of the segments of this wheel.
I do in fact like infographics a lot and always have, but the obsessive nature with which art directors and editors have fallen in love with them, leaves me with a little chill running down my spine.
Someone far away (apparently in Brazil) announced to the rest of us that they're the NEXT big thing in publishing for delivering content to our readers. Now a large group are treating the idea as a shiny new one that popped out of a box.
Weird.
Luckily infographics have been around for quite a long time and there's plenty of inspiration out there. So have hope all you designers and we shall weather this "new" pictorial pressure... I will survive and hopefully so will my appreciation for a cleverly illustrated idea. Eek.
As a form of encouragement for myself I'll pop up any new infographics I heart onto my blog. Well look at that. Here's one now!
Plutchik's Wheel of Emotions
by Shell Greenier via Information Is Beautiful
"Robert Plutchik also created a wheel of emotions. This wheel is used to illustrate different emotions compelling and nuanced. Plutchik first proposed his cone-shaped model (3D) or the wheel model (2D) in 1980 to describe how emotions were related.Today I had my lovely performance appraisal. That wonderful thing that always turns out to be torturous and beneficial all at the same time. I would say, tentatively, that it went alright. It didn't exactly go terribly wrong from what I can tell so that's a bonus.He suggested 8 primary bipolar emotions: joy versus sadness; anger versus fear; trust versus disgust; and surprise versus anticipation. Additionally, his circumplex model makes connections between the idea of an emotion circle and a color wheel. Like colors, primary emotions can be expressed at different intensities and can mix with one another to form different emotions." - Wikipedia
What I realised again, while discussing my future and past, is that these kind of situations really show me over and over again that I live in a bubble of extreme emotions. In that long meeting I think I could have coloured in QUITE a few of the segments of this wheel.
Six months to the next one... THANK GOODNESS! Now to achieve all the things I came up with that I should be achieving... doom doom doooooom.
