Thursday, August 27, 2009

Organizational Charts

Organizational Chart

In an attempt to return beautiful presentation design to my current place of work, I aggressively volunteered to control all the visuals for our current big undertaking. The first step was to create an organizational chart of all the different levels of administration and so on for the small city. Except for the rectangular forms, I relied heavily on the graphical precedent set by a Robert Palmer.

"Do not Fuck with Graphic Designers"

He has recently made the rounds on all the important design blogs for his reinvention of the ugly and impossible to navigate design that has been used in congress. It is amazing how easy it is to confuse and miss-communicate through the use of bad infographics. As if the subject of Health Care Reform was not an already confusing quagmire. Tufte would vomit profusely at viewing the original design and then be reprieved of his suffering with warm pastels, clean lines and a single font.

1 comment:

marmeso said...

Interesting post, however in order to get the full view as to the battle that is taking place you need to take a look at the republican's diagram of the exact same thing. notice the harsh colors and rather congested appearance. I know which i would vote for.

http://www.advanceusa.org/blog/content/binary/Obamacare%20Diagram.jpg