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Client work: wtf is a Reverse Mortgage?

Posted on 19. Nov, 2009 by Jess.

Ok, that’s not the title of the infographic, but it’s appropriate.  Reverse Mortgages are a financial product available to seniors and they are set to explode as the baby boomers head off into retirement and are finding out that they don’t have enough cash to pay for their expenses.
Reverse Mortgages used to have a bad [...]

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Client Work: Follow The Money..

Posted on 04. Nov, 2009 by Jess.

So i was doing some research for another infographic and I was deep in to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ spreadsheets and I had to do something with all the fun data.  The BLS keeps track of salaries for thousands of occupations in thousands of locations, everything from astronauts to watch makers.  While I find [...]

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Flowcapping: Visualizing One Trillion Dollars (video)

Posted on 27. Apr, 2009 by Jess.

Another flowcap of the process of creating an infographic.  This time its much shorter, about 1 minute.  It turns out that watching the creation non-linear infographics is not as exciting in fast motion as more of the all-in-one infographics.  The previous flowcap video is here.
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As you can see this project was more research [...]

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Discussion: Biflation, What is it? Does it Exist?

Posted on 14. Apr, 2009 by Jess.

So I have this issue for a infographic I am working on and decided to throw the question out there to see if I can get any answers.
I have emailed several econ professors with the following email, but perhaps the net at large will have better insights.
I am a graphic designer who specializes in infographics.  [...]

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Visualizing One Billion Dollars.

Posted on 30. May, 2008 by Jess.

The Death and Taxes poster contains a lot of information and is great for putting federal spending in context.  However, the de-facto unit of measure is one billion dollars.  I realized that people often have a hard time grasping just what one billion dollars is.  So to provide further context to the poster, I am [...]

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