I just learned a new word: "Infographics". According to the encyclopedia it means "Information graphics or infographics are visual representations of information, data or knowledge". Here was the graphics which coayught me attention: The winner of some competition presented on Flowing Data:
While working at Technical University of Denmark I once visited a colleague in his home. In the hallway he had all sorts of information visualtion from Underground maps to 3D brain scans. Clearly it was the visualization part of it which had his interest and now I realize that he was interested in infographics years before I even knew it existed.
I found the name "infographics" on the blog Cool Infographics by Randi Krum, which I in turn found when looking for Flowing Data, another blog on data, data usage and data visualization. In fact, there are quite a few blogs on infographics, so I might make a list of it
If I forgot your favorit Infographic blog, please let me know so we can make the list more complete.