Graph layout is extremely interesting for infographics, since a handmade graph will almost always beat what tools such as graphviz can come up with (and I'm not

Graph layout is extremely interesting for infographics, since a handmade graph will almost always beat what tools such as graphviz can come up with (and I'm not even mentioning algorithms that go beyond Sugiyama's for which there is only a paper). Any progress on this front ?