Communicating with graphics—exmples of how to communicate results graphically—how to tell your story with pictures. See also Barbara Felver’s Communicating Effectively with Graphics in this toolkit.

Description	Tool
Brief (three page) summary of points from Barbara Felver’s presentation on "Communicating with Graphics", including questions typically asked by policy makers; principles of effective graphics; and Tufte in brief. (Barbara Felver, September 2002).	Summary - Communicating With Graphics
Example: In just three pages, using text, graphs and charts, Labor and Industries’ (L&I) Field Services Operations team shows progress on reducing framing injuries. (Stewart Henderson, L&I. Word file is 151 kb, PDF is 100 kb)	Reporting L&I’s Progress on Reducing Framing Injuries
Example: Another example of communicating performance graphically from L&I. (Stewart Henderson, L&I. Word file is 149k, PDF is 110k).	Communicating Performance Graphically
Good information design can show multiple dimensions, complex phenomena, and relationships that would not otherwise be apparent.	Edward Tufte is a pioneer of “information design”. Specific resources include his recent writings, courses and books. Information Design, Robert Jacobsen, editor. MIT Press: 1999. Washington State Library: 302.2, INFORMA, 1999.

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