Megan Jaegerman

By christine on November 3rd, 2009, 7:13 pm 5 Comments

While searching for good examples of infographics, I came across the amazing work of  Megan Jaegerman, a graphic artist and journalist for the New York  Times.  Her page of infographics really captured my attention and informed me as to what an infographic needs to have  in order to be successful. She combines tables, images, text, graphs, and illustrations to inform her viewers and fully explain the content.  Every aspect of her work makes the information easy to comprehend: her clear illustrations, her carefully chosen diction and simple text, and an easily navigated page layout.  Most of her graphics don’t have colour, because it is not needed – her illustrations stand on their own. Some of her work deals with important subject matter, while other infographics are humorous and witty.  A favourite of mine is called Price Tag: Mowing the Lawn (shown below).

 

Although there is little  information on Jaegerman to be found on the web , I highly recommend checking out her page of infographics on the thread of Edward Tufte’s website ( a reknowned statistician and an expert in informational graphics and design at Yale).  He comments that Jaegerman’s work “ is smart, finely detailed, elegant, witty, inventive, informative. . . Megan Jaegerman’s work has consistently this spirit: content-driven, no segregation of information by its mode of production, whatever it takes to explain something.”

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