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The Story of Bottled Water

Annie Leonard from The Story of Stuff presents her next visual explanation of The Story of Bottled Water.  

Dan Roam Keynote at IFVP 2010

Dan Roam explains how created the Healthcare Reform presentation and the response that it received both online and from the White House. It's a great keynote. 

Part 1 

IFVP 2010 Keynote: Dan Roam (part 1) from Alphachimp Studio Inc. on Vimeo.

Part 2

IFVP 2010 Keynote: Dan Roam (part 2) from Alphachimp Studio Inc. on Vimeo.

Part 3 

Dan Roam, pt 3 - Solving Big Problems from Alphachimp Studio Inc. on Vimeo.

XPLANE's Did You Know 4.0

New from XPLANE - updated from 2.0 

Dan Roam's Napkin Healthcare Presentation

Dan Roam does a great job covering the complexities of the healthcare crisis in a simple, straightforward way.  

Healthcare Napkins All

View more documents from Dan Roam.

Did You Know?: The 2009 Inauguration Edition

XPLANE just released this new video that visually explores 23 little known facts about this upcoming and other past Inaugurations. 

NY Times Year in Ideas 2008

The NY Times - Year in Ideas 2008 is a digest of ideas such as the BMW concept car below that can change shapes, covered by a flexible new type of fabric; and others, such as gas that is always under $3 a gallon! 

I Love Sketch

I Love Sketch is a new 3D curve sketching program.  

ILoveSketch from Seok-Hyung Bae on Vimeo.

The Back of the Napkin Goes to Washington

Dan Roam gave a workshop to the heads of staff for Senators from the Democratic side. His post shows a great working example of his principles from his book The Back of the Napkin. He condenses a lot of heavy data comparing eight years of the Clinton Administration with eight years of the George W Bush administration into graphics that are easy to understand and that anyone could produce.
Consider this next time you have to present any boring company data!

See the full post with many more graphics here

Electing a US President in Plain English

This is a another great video from Common Craft.
This is an example of a explanation that is deceptively simple; great storytelling and visualization techniques!

Visual Periodic Table

This is a really nice example from Visual Literacy that illustrates how to organize a large number of reference points. Click on the photo below to go to the site; then hover on any of the elements and an example of that graphic will pop-up. Nice organization and visual graphic!

Find examples of additional visual maps here

Here are the links that correspond to all the images in the graphic.