Infographics Getting People Into the Crandall Canyon Mine

An interesting ode to newspaper infographics from the Salt Lake Tribune that’s all about how graphics used to illustrate the Utah mine disaster have helped people understand the story far better than through just the countless written pieces in the paper. And as the Salt Lake paper has the story in their own backyard, they talk about their staff designers doing all they can to be at the forefront of explaining every possible angle and part of the story, visually, in helping the community understand what’s going on sometimes as close as a few miles away.

For instance, on Thursday, Tribune graphic artists Amy Lewis and Rhonda Hailes Maylett produced a graphic that illustrated “bumps and bounces” in mines and defined terms such as “overburden,” “bump” and “heave.”

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