International Designers Network (IdN) is one of the most highly regarded digital and graphic design magazines around, and believe us, it's quite stunning.
Produced in Hong Kong and published quarterly, IdN Magazine caters to professionals, students and the design-fixated alike everywhere. Several years back it slimmed down from a larger size to a more compact oversized A5 book format, jettisoning easier page-flicking for a more dense and immersive read. This is because the magazine's approach is to explore just a few elements or even a single design area in depth rather than to skim a lot more.
Design titles published in this way are all too rare and for this reason we keep a good selection of available back issues to enable designers to create a useful resource library.
Here's the publisher description for the latest issue, IdN 29/2 Infographic & Data Visualisation:
Infographic (or more specifically data visualisation for this issue) is all about turning extremely complicated data into simple and easy reading graphics. It is most often found in editorial designs, when interconnecting ideas may not be so easy to understand, need clarifying, or a certain aspect of the story or data that needed emphasising.
But more so in this day and age – particularly for online media – infographics are also used to transform a dry message or a not-so-exciting idea into something more visually striking, leaving a longer lasting impression for the the casual viewer.