Oil’d from Chris Harmon on Vimeo.

Chris Harmon made this insightful animation using information graphics to educate the public about the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. He focuses on the impact the oil would have made on our planet had the spill not happened. Chris does a beautiful job of pairing numerical data with recognizable icons, using contrasting sizes and colors to form hierarchy among the information. The simplicity of the graphics backed by the familiarity of the examples, (ie: enough milk jugs to fill the inside of the Empire State Building), reinforce the shock value of these statistics. These statistics may change your mind about our dependency on oil. And how YOU could make a difference!

Kudos to Chris for citing his sources!

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