Facing Deportation: Causes and Processes.
The work looks to be of New York Times quality, but amazingly was created by UNC journalism postgraduate Eileen Mignoni as part of her thesis work.
I was curious how a journalism major developed such impressive info design skills, so I emailed her and received this response, which I am posting with her permission:
Hey Justin,
They do teach this stuff in journalism school, particularly at UNC, which has a phenomenal Visual Communications sequence. Carolina has one of the best infographic artists in the world in it's journalism school - Alberto Cairo - http://www.albertocairo.com/. He worked at El Mundo before coming to UNC, which is the paper that very much influenced the New York Times as they transitioned from illustration type graphics to clean, data driven graphics. I, alas, did not have time in the master's program to take his classes. However, I was his research assistant, and so got to read his manuscripts before publication. Knowing graphics were necessary to telling the full story, I went to something called 3 day Beyond Bootcamp, http://www.beyondbootcamp.org/ session at the University of Miami at which Alberto and his good friend, Xaquín Xocas, http://www.xocas.com/blog/, of the New York Times taught. Another pioneering info graphics artist at UNC is Don Wittekind, althought I haven't worked with him much. I only know he is supposed to be very good.
I designed the maps and the flow chart in Adobe Illustrator, and brought them into Flash to make them interactive. It took me at least two weeks, including the time to do the research to get the flow chart accurate.
After graduation I am first going to the Carolina Photojournalism Workshop, and then I am a part of the News 21 team at UNC. We're going to have way more cool graphics and maps for that, although I will be doing mostly storytelling, as that is my strength. I'll send you a link to that when we've got something up.
Best,
Eileen
[Hat tip: Infographic News]
