Last week the Design for America contest hosted by Sunlight Labs winners were announced. It was a contest looking for ways to visualize how government works or how it could serve its citizens.
I thought the contest produced some interesting visualizations that might get you thinking about how you could creatively display complex processes or information in your own work. The graphics might just be worth checking out if you are interested in the topic as well.
Below is an example one of the contest winning designs. It is titled “How Our Laws are Made.” It contains a ton of information, but I believe the color scheme nicely breaks up the sections while providing visual interest. I also like that you have the option to easily identify the main process components or take the time to dig into the detail.
What do you think of the design?
Sunlight Labs is part of the Sunlight Foundation a non-profit, non partisan Washington, DC based organization focused on digitization of government data and making tools and websites to make it easily accessible.
For those of you interested in government data sources I would recommend checking out the Sunlight Foundation’s National Data Catalog.
-Elissa Schloesser