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This year I have become increasingly enamoured with infographics. If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a good infographic must be worth 10,000. I love the way that truly amazing infographic designers can summarize and capture detailed and complex information in something that is both beautiful and easy to understand.

This obsession has got to the point where I now have a section dedicated to infographic blogs in my RSS reader. When I share the ones I really like people often ask where I get them from, so I thought I would share the love. These are the infographic blogs/sites that make the grade:

• Information is Beautiful
• FlowingData
• Good.is Transparency Department
• Visual Complexity
• Information Aesthetics
• The Guardian Datablog
• WeLoveDatavis

I also got The Visual Miscellaneum: A Colorful Guide to the World’s Most Consequential Trivia in the post a couple of weeks back. It is a beautiful collection of fascinating infographics put together by David Mccandless (author of Information is Beautiful). It is some of the best bedtime reading I have ever had, I can not recommend it highly enough.

Do you have another awesome source of beautiful inforgraphics? If you do let me know…

Horoeka (aka my brother Jason Blair)

My brother Jason is (kind of) a hippy that lives in a tiny town in the South Island called Greymouth. For those who don’t know that is almost completely the opposite of me, the city-dwelling (allegedly) metro sexual corporate dude. Despite this we are actually pretty similar in a lot of respects, he just showers less and wears ponchos more. He is also a really talented photographer, so hopefully he will also share some of his work via his blog (come on Jase). He has really only just begun his blogging exploits, no doubt there will be many passionate rants to come.

Sergei Filippov

Sergei is a great photographer who kicks around Auckland taking some killer gig photos (among other things). He is also one of the nicest people who you will ever meet.

Super Duper Street

Ed is truly a man of many talents. He hangs out down in our fair nations capital, and sporadically writes some super quirky, interesting stuff that makes me laugh, a lot. He is also the brains behind the Pasta Man phenomenon – get on board if you are a pasta fan. As if that wasn’t enough he is also a ridiculously talented musician, featuring in bands such as the lovely Ed Zuccollo Trio. Ed is going to go far.

This is totally awesome. A time lapse video made with tilt-shift photography. Tilt-shift is rad because it makes everything look like tiny little miniatures.

Scenes from a rooftop from Paul Johannessen on Vimeo.

Via whitezine.