To craft something requires skills, mastery and patience. It means to create something step by step, with a passion for…
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…
Article: “Nervous Systems” (Süddeutsche Zeitung)
If you need brain food, some irritation and some art for inspiration – the House of World Cultures in Berlin…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Book Review: Generative Logos
Even though tools like “Processing” have been out there for a while, computational design is still a rather new strand…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Book: “Information Graphics” (Taschen)
I can hardly exaggerate my excitement on the release of my first book earlier this week: INFORMATION GRAPHICS, published by…
