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The greater your knowledge, the more sources of inspiration you can call upon. A message that engages a viewer’s knowledge – in particular if that knowledge is hard come by – can make the recipient feel special, included and rewarded for their smartness. What do you know? Be porous to the world. Be porous to knowledge.

Stefanie Posavec and David McCandless, Left vs. Right, 2009 Posavec and McCandless condense world politics into a single provocative design in this project created for the book Information is Beautiful written by McCandless. ...

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