This is part of a series of posts about the 'little of visualisation design', respecting the small decisions that make a big difference towards the good and bad of this discipline. In each post I'm going to focus on just one small matter - a singular good or bad design choice - as demonstrated by a sample project. Each project may have many effective and ineffective aspects, but I'm just commenting on one. - Andy Kirk
Juxtaposing photo-imagery
The 'little' of this next design concerns the juxtaposition of photo-imagery within a chart display. Voters were surveyed to find out which of the 2016 candidates they were able to correctly recognize.
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One of the subtle design choices I like here is the deliberate cropping of the least recognised candidates' images. The face of Kasich partially disappears below the axis, editorially reinforcing the findings of the analysis.
Composition of photo-imagery
The 'little' of this next design concerns the juxtaposition of photo-imagery within a chart display. It might appear to be a relatively simple matter, but gathering and preparing photo-imagery, especially people-based subjects like in the sequence of Presidential head-and-shoulders in this piece, can involve a lot of effort sourcing, editing and compiling each one
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