2012: The Year in Graphics (The New York Times)

2012: The Year in Graphics

A selection of graphics and interactives from 2012 with information on how they were produced. The best graphics from The New York Times for 2012, with links, all gathered in one place.

Notable Opinion Art of 2012 (The New York Times)

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Notable Opinion Art of 2012

A selection of illustrations that reflects on the issues of 2012 using exemplary wit, incisiveness, beauty and provocation. From the Op-Ed pages of The New York Times.

Data visualization posters Fall 2012 class

Selected work Fall 2012. Size: 30x40 inches. For the final poster, students were asked to use any of the visualization types learned so far: tree map, scatterplot, bar chart, pie chart, line graph, parallel coordinates, maps with geodata, etc. They could also combine and overlap the graphs as needed.
PDF files of the posters shown below can be downloaded here.

James Bond, by Stella Cunanan

Mexican Drug War, by Christina Davidson

Audio Formats and the iPod, by Judy Chu

Obamacare, by Pichamon Chamroenrak

James Bond, by Luke Marsden

Assassinations, by Madeleine Lucero-Simmons

Packaging Waste, by Julia Grosman

Minor and Major Scales, by Laszlo Sztana

NBA All-Star, by Hernry Ngo

Wind Energy, by Li Fang Zhang

Bike Share, by Kenji Wada


Fishing (1 of 2), by Sam Luu

 Fishing (2 of 2), by Ryan Griego

Dream Teams Olympics, by Dana Lui

League of Legends, by David Li

Pokemon, by Justin Pangilinan

America's Cup (2012), by Luis Pasqual

Open format (wild card) project from 2012 class.

For this project, students were free to select the format of their poster, booklet, etc.
PDFs of the posters shown below are downloadable here.

The Beatles, by Stella Cunanan

Facebook Census, by Judy Chu

Dinosaurs, by Dana Lui

McLaren Park, by Li Fang Zhang

Airbus A380, by Luke Marsden

Pick Your Poison, by Marielle Atanacio

17x22 posters from the Fall 2012 class

Below are some examples from the "Mailer" assignment. The poster had to fold down to letter size in order to be mailed. In this class we used mostly R and RStudio for sketching and development, and Illustrator for cleaning up and finalizing the visualization. We also used Visualize This by Nathan Yau as the textbook for the class.

Full-resolution PDFs of the posters shown below can be downloaded here.

Android 2012, by Judy Chu.

Pixar Films, by Dana Lui

Doctor Who, by Stella Cunanan

Federer vs Sampras, by Luke Marsden

Country Populations, by Madeleine Lucero-Simmons

Land of Opportunity, by Henry Ngo

American Love Wine, by Christina Davidson

Color Blindness, by Justin Pangilinan