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Uh, Wade Meredith here. That second infographic is mine. It was the most successful blog post on Healthbolt.net (my blog at the time, I ended up selling it to b
by wmeredith 17y ago
Uh, Wade Meredith here. That second infographic is mine. It was the most successful blog post on Healthbolt.net (my blog at the time, I ended up selling it to b5media a few months later). I had a couple of other big hits, but this was my favorite.
I'm glad they remark in the OP about the post taking on a life of it's own. It has 4k+ comments and has turned into an informal support group for people to share stories about quitting successes and failures.
It's pretty much the first big graphic design project I ever undertook (I had built a Wordpress blog and was reskinning it every month or two to teach myself how to code, so I thought should start getting serious about design as well). It was by far the most rewarding post I made on that blog out of about 400 over the course of 9 months. I think it's helped a lot of people and I'm glad it seems like it's going to help more in the future.
The actual post finally ended up here with an add-on article tacked onto the front of it (http://blisstree.com/feel/what-happens-to-your-body-if-you-stop-smoking-right-now/ http://blisstree.com/feel/what-happens-to-your-body-if-you-s...)
While the content changed hands a few more times over the last 3 years apparently on of them involved the first ~400 posts on the blog, which I wrote, getting attributed to "Liz Lewis". (Disappointing.) Considering I sold the blog and the content with it, though, there's nothing to be done about it. Such is life.
The important thing is that the post itself, originally published in 2007, now has 4,239 comments and the last one was left 20 hours ago. Pretty cool stuff.
TL;DR I made the "most popular" infographic of 2007 while I was still wet-behind-the-ears as a designer, and it's cool to see it leading a life of its own 3 years later.
- hugh3 17y agoNice work. It doesn't suffer from the problems of many of the other infographics, since it's not claiming to be some kind of unbiased presentation of data; rather it's an unashamed advertisement for the idea that you should quit smoking.