What we're looking for from Experts

from the WSJ

Economist's Videographics

Excellent animated work from the Economist. They take standard bar charts or maps and animate them while telling complete stories with voiceover.

Very accessible and easy to reproduce.

http://economist.com/videographics

The Value of Visual Thinking

http://www.dachisgroup.com/2009/10/the-value-of-visual-thinking/

"...it doesn’t matter if we’re talking about consumers or employees — attention is becoming scarce. If you want to communicate something, you need to capture attention and communicate your point quickly..."

This is from Digitas' David Armano...he even drops a chinese proverb worth restating...

“Tell me and I’ll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I’ll understand.”

Design: Color picker

awesomely easy tool to derive color pallettes

http://colorschemedesigner.com/

virtual mood board

Haw-lin

very cool site which generates lots of images, slightly baffling