Understanding time as a linear vector feels natural today, but it is the result of a long tradition of graphic “time maps”. One crucial innovation was the “Chronographie”, an enormous historical map published in France in 1753. A new book tells us everything about it
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Will Burtin (1908-1972) was a German graphic designer working in the US, whose work fuses influences from Bauhaus to Buckminster Fuller. He was also a brilliant conceptual thinker, who used visualisation to explain complex scientific issues. This book provides a detailed introduction to his work
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There are only very few visualisation techniques that feed into our perception system so well that they actually do facilitate seeing something “at a glance.” Small multiples is certainly one of the methods which has a potential for that. Small multiples can provide…
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To craft something requires skills, mastery and patience. It means to create something step by step, with a passion for details and execution. Crafted products are en vogue these days, and in a world where industrial and digital creation processes are the norm, hand-crafted things appeal to us as rare and precious gems. Such are…
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My work throughout the past years has involved researching current trends as well as the long history of information visualisation. This research focus has led me to peek into a variety of professional and scientific disciplines. Coming from an art history background myself, I have worked with designers, coders and editors, but I have also had the chance…
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This semester, I have the great pleasure to teach again within the interface design programme of the University of Applied Sciences in Potsdam. Teaching is awesome: you get to work with talented and bright young people and you continually learn something—from having to research material for the sessions, from having to think things through in…
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With the current variety of media channels, visual information has become an indispensable tool of communication. Here is my new book – the atlas of infographics
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I am very much into all things related to structuring information & visual storytelling. So it is exciting to hear that London’s wonderful Victoria & Albert Museum stages an exhibition exploring new ways of visual narration and the forgotten art of memory: “MEMORY PALACE”, opening today. Based on a novel by writer Hari Kunzru, the…
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Voilá – my first book. A rich collection of contemporary infographics from journalism, education and art, plus a very personal contribution from infographic guru Nigel Holmes
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