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There’s a lot of surprising and saddening information in this infographic. Some of it is nicely visualized, all of it is relevant, and the design and layout are really nice. I also like the color palette–it’s dark, but not prohibitively so, and it avoids the tendency for dark backgrounds to be contrasted by bright or neon colors. It’s also easy to navigate this infographic. Everything is well balanced, so it doesn’t look too cluttered or too empty anywhere. The design elements are all pretty creative. I really like the number 515 composed of phones, and the cow is an entertaining note to end on.

Data viz is only employed a few times here, right at the top of the infographic. Though there are so many numerical facts and statistics contained here, only the world population, population with mobile phones, and weight of dumped mobile phones are successfully visualized. All the other facts are simply illustrated: the cow by the greenhouse gasses fact is cute and related, but it’s not doing anything to show the 35 million pounds of greenhouse gasses. Same thing with the number 515. I suppose if it was actually composed of 515 phone images, that would be data viz, but as of now it’s simply a clever design element.

Just adding some more charts, graphs, and other forms of visualization will really help boost this infographic to its greatest potential. As is, I’ll give it a B!

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This infographic was submitted to us by the good people at My Colleges and Careers.com. Here is what they had to say upon submitting their infographic to us:

The infographic illustrates the affect that higher learning has on the environment. It shows the affect it has negatively but also illustrates the potential it could have if more people saved paper and gas by enrolling in an online class or college.

The nice thing about this infographic is that it is concise and has actual visualizations for most of its data. The overall design however is pretty plain (rather than merely simple). It’s a bit boring right now. I would like to see a more cohesive color scheme across the infographic: right now, the two sections seem disjointed from one another. Also, since the infographic is so short there is really no reason not to visualize all of the data, so the large barrel in the second section should not rely on typography too much.

Even still, this is infographic is pretty decent because it does everything an infographic needs to do: it presents data in a concise, consumable way. It just needs a serious design revamp – putting in a couple of hours into the design could really take this infographic to the next level.