I’m really pleased to announce our latest work, in collaboration with BMB in London and for Christian Aid – check out povertyover.christianaid.org.uk.
In the coming days we’ll be blogging more about how we took this idea from scamp stage – right through to the finished product, to give you more of an insight into how we work. But now… back to the work.
The aim of the website is to show a history of poverty, illustrating that over the last two hundred years many countries have come out of poverty and have entered prosperous periods of development. Hopefully by showing that many countries can leave poverty behind, it will inspire you to invest in and develop the world’s remaining poor countries.
For WEIR+WONG – the challenge has been to visually interpret what was in effect a spreadsheet with 500 years worth of data for 285 countries. Our team of designers, developers and animators have come up with something which is genuinely compelling to look at, showing us a history of the world’s poverty and allowing us to delve deeper into the information.
In recent years there has been an explosion of Infographics on the web. Some of it looks amazing and communicates its data really well. However, there is so much of it that looks great but is difficult to understand. The message muddled by the medium perhaps. I guess the most striking fact is that most of it is just really static. There are so many Jpegs or PDFs that warrant a first look but nothing more. We were really keen to be involved in an Infographic that was pretty, easy to understand as well as interactive.
We really enjoyed working on this project and hope that you enjoy looking at it too! The development process was extremely challenging and involved lots of collaboration from technologists, animators and developers in order to achieve this result. If you’d like to find out more, we’ll be releasing a series of case studies looking at each part of the project over the coming days, we hope you enjoy this, and we hope it encourages you to get involved to help bring poverty to an end.
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Poverty Over – An Interactive Infographic
I’m really pleased to announce our latest work, in collaboration with BMB in London and for Christian Aid – check out povertyover.christianaid.org.uk.
In the coming days we’ll be blogging more about how we took this idea from scamp stage – right through to the finished product, to give you more of an insight into how we work. But now… back to the work.
The aim of the website is to show a history of poverty, illustrating that over the last two hundred years many countries have come out of poverty and have entered prosperous periods of development. Hopefully by showing that many countries can leave poverty behind, it will inspire you to invest in and develop the world’s remaining poor countries.
For WEIR+WONG – the challenge has been to visually interpret what was in effect a spreadsheet with 500 years worth of data for 285 countries. Our team of designers, developers and animators have come up with something which is genuinely compelling to look at, showing us a history of the world’s poverty and allowing us to delve deeper into the information.
In recent years there has been an explosion of Infographics on the web. Some of it looks amazing and communicates its data really well. However, there is so much of it that looks great but is difficult to understand. The message muddled by the medium perhaps. I guess the most striking fact is that most of it is just really static. There are so many Jpegs or PDFs that warrant a first look but nothing more. We were really keen to be involved in an Infographic that was pretty, easy to understand as well as interactive.
We really enjoyed working on this project and hope that you enjoy looking at it too! The development process was extremely challenging and involved lots of collaboration from technologists, animators and developers in order to achieve this result. If you’d like to find out more, we’ll be releasing a series of case studies looking at each part of the project over the coming days, we hope you enjoy this, and we hope it encourages you to get involved to help bring poverty to an end.