Michael Bierut, Jessica Helfand|Audio
January 7, 2016
State of the Chart
The end of 2015 brought a deluge of infographics. Every publication and think tank, it seems, told the story of last year in charts. Michael acknowledges that they can have a “weird and compelling authority,” but Jessica calls most of them “short-attention-span theater,” and ultimately as unsatisfying as listicles. Part of the problem, she says, is that designers aren’t always collaborating with scientists, economists, or others who really understand the data:
The disconnect for me is that design education—which is often stalled in art education—doesn’t necessarily make it possible or easy or actionable for students of design to understand that the capacities they need to develop to make these kinds of charts over time will need to be equipped with skill sets other than their own.
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