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What is a Blueprint?

By Bill Keaggy

We don’t mean graphic info about buildings—these Blueprints are about building infographics.

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5/16/19 11:26 AM

blueprint, process, sketch, content, Design, infographic

The essential components of information design* (as I see it)

By Bill Keaggy

When you've been doing something for a long time, you tend to not always think about what you're doing. But a while back I made myself curious—what have I learned in all this time doing infor

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2/8/18 9:35 AM

infodesign, Infographics, process, session, visual thinking, Company news, Creativity, Design, information design

From start to finish—Part 5: The flightcheck

By Bill Keaggy

It takes a lot of sweat, a lot of time, often a lot of money, and possibly some blood and tears, but most every project eventually reaches that home stretch where you’re just about ready to deliver th

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10/26/15 3:28 PM

arch, Infographics, print, flightcheck, gateway, Illustration, process, st louis, visual thinking, Company news, Design, production, proofing, QA

From start to finish—Part 4: The illustration

By Chris Roettger

This is where a project comes to life—where the content and layout meet color, style, and typography.

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10/6/15 7:04 AM

arch, illustration, Infographics, gateway, Illustration, process, sketch, st louis, Company news, Creativity, Design, draw

From start to finish—Part 3: The blueprint

By Bill Keaggy

So what's a blueprint? It's basically the design without the design. Well, to be specific, it's the design without the final illustration and typography. That means we've got the content, the visual c

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10/2/15 8:35 AM

arch, Infographics, blueprint, gateway, process, sketch, st louis, Company news, Creativity, Design

From start to finish—Part 2: The concept

By Bill Keaggy

With a general idea of what we wanted to say about the Gateway Arch—and specifically to get a good deal of discrete, lesser-known facts into the piece—we began doing rough napkin sketches.

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9/21/15 8:18 AM

arch, Infographics, napkin, gateway, process, sketch, st louis, Company news, concept, Creativity, Design

From start to finish—Part 1: The research

By Bill Keaggy

In many ways, this is the most difficult part of a project. We can design, we can draw, we can write. But what do we know about arches, architecture, or anything? Not much, so let's do some research.

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8/25/15 7:33 AM

arch, Infographics, gateway, process, research, st louis, visual thinking, architecture, Company news, Creativity, Design

From start to finish—designing a poster to celebrate The Gateway Arch's 50th birthday

By Bill Keaggy

When you visit St. Louis's Gateway Arch, which turns 50 this year, and you walk up to its broad metal base you can't help but be struck by just how huge it is and by how incredibly solid it looks. It'

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7/29/15 6:06 AM

arch, guide, Infographics, poster, Art, eero, gateway, Illustration, process, saarinen, st louis, visual thinking, Company news, Creativity, Design

SESSION #004: Information design basics (Part 1: frameworks)

By Bill Keaggy

We held our 4th SESSION meetup last week and took a deep dive into frameworks—a term we use for the overall architecture of a story-based design.

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4/20/15 12:43 PM

frameworks, infodesign, Infographics, process, session, SESSION.IS, system, comparison

The Internet of Things...for Advertising

By W. Scott Matthews

Tremendousness is very honored to have been asked by the American Advertising Federation (AAF) to create the identity for their upcoming ADMERICA conference.

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12/5/14 8:09 AM

Admerica, advertising, Infographics, AAF, Art, Illustration, process, visual thinking, Creativity, ecosystem

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