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Yep, it was 'homemade' - in brief, I first made a list of the facts that I want to show (eg. amount of tea imported), then did about 2 days of research. Then I used photoshop, and traced outlines of images found from images.google.com.

If you want a full version, I'll happily write a slightly longer how-to type thing?

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Yes, more details would be great. You could write it as a blog post and submit it to HN again.

@Revisor - here it is:

http://westiseast.co.uk/blog/how-to-make-an-infographic/

The mechanics of making the vector images is already well covered by other good photoshop guides (linked in the blog post) but the general steps I went through are here. Hope it's helpful for you.

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