My name is Alex Bordens and for the past five months or so I have had the pleasure of being the graphics intern. The position has allowed me to learn and try new things, including the interactive graphic below explaining Governor Crist’s trip to Europe (click the image to open the feature) The graphic on the governor’s spending shows how tons of information can be displayed at one time, yet in a simple manner.
 

A professor from college told me that design either needs to be blatantly complex or so simple someone would think, hey I can do that. In this case simplicity is king. There is so much information that it was important not to over emphasize the small things. Let the numbers be what the reader remembers not the design.
 
The project may have looked simple but it was very complex to develop­­ — at least for a beginner programmer. It was one of those projects that when it is over you feel like you accomplished something. Although there may have been an easier way to build some of the components, it was worth the struggle. Together they made the project seamless. They made the project simple.