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SANDRA RENDGEN

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Book Review: “Dear Data” (Penguin)

To craft something requires skills, mastery and patience. It means to create something step by step, with a passion for…

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Workshop: “The Future(s) of the Atlas” (Leipzig)

My work throughout the past years has involved researching current trends as well as the long history of information visualisation. This research focus…

atlas, cartography, information visualisation, map, mapping, maps, thematic cartography, thematic mapping, Visualization, vizualisation

Article: “Nervous Systems” (Süddeutsche Zeitung)

If you need brain food, some irritation and some art for inspiration – the House of World Cultures in Berlin…

exhibition, history of data science, installation, sueddeutsche, surveillance, tracking

Article: “The Feltron Annual Reports” (Süddeutsche Zeitung)

Nicholas Felton‘s work has been an inspiration to many people in the field of information visualisation, not only when he…

cartography, data visualisation, data viz, info viz, information graphics, information visualisation, mapping, sueddeutsche, Visualization, vizualisation

Article: “Ephemeral City” (Süddeutsche Zeitung)

Urban cartography has long been an authoritative matter: companies or authorities invested time, energy and money in researching the data…

cartography, data visualisation, data viz, info viz, Interactive, map, mapping, maps, sueddeutsche, thematic mapping, Visualization, vizualisation

Jury Member: “Information is Beautiful Awards” (London)

I felt honoured to be part of the jury of this year’s “Kantar Information Is Beautiful Awards”. The awards’ winners…

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Teaching: “Diagrams, Maps, Trees” (Potsdam)

This semester, I have the great pleasure to teach again within the interface design programme of the University of Applied…

cartography, info graphics, info viz, information graphics, information visualisation, mapping, maps, thematic cartography, thematic mapping

Book Review: “Map. Exploring the World” (Phaidon)

When I think about cartography, I am always fascinated by the different associations the term evokes in my brain: from…

bookreview, cartography, mapping, maps, subjective mapping, thematic cartography

Talk: “Mind the Gap” (Helsinki)

For the first time this year, the organisers behind “Visualising Knowledge” conference in Helsinki (most notably the busy and well-connected…

historical infographics, info viz, information visualisation

Talk: “Datavisualisation – age-old, brand new” (Helsinki)

As you may have figured, the history of information vis is one of my favourite research topics at the moment,…

historical infographics, info viz, information visualisation

Article: “Digital Archives” (Süddeutsche Zeitung)

Almost 44 million objects. That’s how many digitised objects are available through the grand European digital library Europeana today. The…

cultural heritage, digital collections, interface design, sueddeutsche, user interfaces

Talk: “Bigger! Smarter! Better?” (Köln)

The Rheinische Fachhochschule in Cologne, one of the oldest of its kind in Germany, invited me to talk as part of…

Talk & Article: “The Fifty Maps of Minard” (Pamplona)

I have had the great opportunity last week to present at this year’s Malofiej conference one of my currently favorite…

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Book: “Understanding the World – The Atlas of Infographics”

Yes, I am quite excited to announce the release of my second collaboration with TASCHEN publishing, “Understanding the World. The…

info graphics, information visualisation

Exhibition: “Micropia” (Amsterdam)

Together with Berlin-based ART+COM studios, we had the great opportunity to create several media installations for an exhibition which I thought had a genial concept: MICROPIA. Conceived as a permanent show within the zoo in Amsterdam, it presents knowledge about animals whom we share our lives with but never see – microbes.

exhibition, installation, interactive installation, interactive space, wall installation

Interview Jer Thorp: “Let the data speak”

For a few years now, Canadian-born Jer Thorp has been working on the forefront of data visualisation, creating ever new…

computer-generated, data viz, info viz, information visualisation, Visualization, vizualisation

Interview Moritz Stefaner: “The city is alive”

Moritz Stefaner came to the field of data visualisation with a background in cognitive science and interface design. His works…

cartography, colour coding, information visualisation, map, mapping, maps, thematic cartography, thematic mapping, Visualization, vizualisation

Research: “The Forgotten Maps of Minard” (Paris)

UPDATE January 2019: This article is a few years old and outdated. In 2018, my book on Minard’s work and…

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Inspiration: “The Art of Memory” at Victoria & Albert Museum

I am very much into all things related to structuring information & visual storytelling. So it is exciting to hear…

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Book Review: Mapping Manhattan (Abrams Books)

Maps are a means to store and communicate location-based data – from physical landscape information to climate data, from popular…

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Book Review: Generative Logos

Even though tools like “Processing” have been out there for a while, computational design is still a rather new strand…

brand, CI, computational, computer-generated, dynamic, flexible, generative, identity, logo

Inspiration: Interactive Network Graph from MoMA

The Museum of Modern Art in New York City is a fascinating brand name in the museum world. Since it…

diagram, modern art, moma, network graph, tree, Visualization

Inspiration: Wind map by Viégas & Wattenberg

Martin Wattenberg and Fernanda Viégas have been working in data visualisation for many years now and are currently leading Google’s…

cartography, map, mapping, maps, realtime data, thematic cartography, thematic mapping, vizualisation

Inspiration: “Secret Universe” George Widener exhibition

The American artist George Widener is an expert of numbers. Being diagnosed with an Asperger’s syndrome, he possesses an extraordinary…

art brut, calendars, outsider art, patterns

Inspiration: Google Chrome Experiment “OZ”

In their quest to explore opportunities arising from the latest web technologies, Google has released a new experiment for their…

3d environment, browser, narrative, story telling, storytelling

Inspiration: “Onezoom” tree of life

So, as everyone talks about big data and everyone’s putting together large structured databases: How do you actually USE this…

biodiversity, biology, browser, data base, database, divergence times, evolution, species, tree of life

Book: “Information Graphics”

Boom! I cannot exaggerate my excitement about the release of my first book “Information Graphics”, which I put together with a great team from Taschen Publishing in Cologne. The project was a collaboration with great people from the scene of data visualisation and information graphics.

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Book: “Information Graphics” (Taschen)

I can hardly exaggerate my excitement on the release of my first book earlier this week: INFORMATION GRAPHICS, published by…

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