Wordle is an information visualization tool that allows users to create visual word frequency charts and display them in different formats using parameters like font and color.

This series of pamphlets pairs a designer and a policy expert to explain an important policy issue in layperson's terms.

This work for a Master's thesis identifies common techniques used in information design.

There are only four examples on this LiveJournal post, but they do provide some insights into the priorities of inmate information management over the last two centuries.

John Emerson has created a pamphlet introducing information design concepts for activists and advocacy groups.

This alumni magazine profile offers a glowing, but insightful portrait of Tufte.

Screenshots of The Game Neverending, the predecessor to Flickr reveal the initial design plans of the social software service. I never played GNE, but when I started using Flickr in 2003, it was weird.

This really interesting post criticizes the idea of Information Architecture for reducing design issues to issues of information.

Although the content is itself interesting, I'm mostly posting this because of the CSS trick it uses. I've never seen this before, and it's nice to see an appropriate use of tables.

I may have to show my students this cool visualization of January's casualties in Iraq when we discuss information design.

1911 visualization of economics created for the Wobblies.

The history of Microsoft is visualized here as a series of tag clouds.