Edward Tufte points out the great infographics work of Megan Jaegerman, some of whose work is featured in Beautiful Evidence.
Megan Jaegerman produced some of the best news graphics ever done while working at The New York Times from 1990 to 1998….To create this display, [she] did both the research and the design, breaking their common alienation. This design amplifies the content, because the designer created the content.
When I visited an information design studio during a school visit to Carnegie Mellon, the professor asked me for my input on some of the student projects, many of which were infographics like this. I kept blathering on about how much they could be considered comics. I said one girl’s work was basically a hieroglyphic, and one guy’s work was like a Family Circus neighborhood map (I’m not sure he took that as a compliment).
I Googled Megan Jaegerman and couldn’t find anything else out about her. Anyone have any leads?
http://www.nytimes.com/specials/women/nyt97/22life.html
Tufte has put even more up since I posted this: http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0002w4