{"id":4652,"date":"2015-04-19T11:35:47","date_gmt":"2015-04-19T09:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/?p=4652"},"modified":"2015-04-22T08:37:44","modified_gmt":"2015-04-22T06:37:44","slug":"pamplona-the-centre-of-infographics-and-pintxos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/archives\/4652","title":{"rendered":"Pamplona: the centre of infographics and pintxos"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last month I was in Pamplona, Spain where the world-famous running of the bulls takes place. While the bull running doesn’t show up until mid-July, the city becomes host to Malofiej<\/a>, an infographics world gathering, in March. It wasn’t a surprise that infographics weren’t the first thing on the tip of people’s tongues when I arrived. Instead it was pintxos, the local name of the bite-size Spanish snacks that are commonly known as tapas. Yet, what I found was that there were a lot of similarities between infographics and pintxos<\/a> and was happy to share my thoughts when Visualoop<\/a> asked if I could be a guest blogger. <\/p>\n

I had heard of and visited the popular website that started out on Tumblr in 2010. Since then Visualoop<\/a> evolved into its own digital environment and is a place that is dedicated to anything and all things visual and related to data visualization. <\/p>\n

We try to bring together experts from fields such as information design, cartography or visual journalism, with students and others interested in expanding their knowledge about data visualization.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What I didn’t realize was that its now run out of Brazil by a very charismatic and friendly Portuguese guy named Tiago<\/a>. He was quite the busy bee during the conference – networking with participants, blogging everyday, and setting up interviews with people. Here he is with the very talented and respected illustrator Adolfo Arranz<\/a> at Malofiej23.<\/p>\n

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Talking with @visualoop at #23malofiej<\/a><\/p>\n

A photo posted by Adolfo Arranz (@adolfux) on