
Conference with a cause
I’ve been collecting the work and ideas of people I admire on this blog and in reviewing the recent Information Design Conference under the title of Designing with a cause I ended up referencing most of them. Which means I’ve…

Designing with a cause
Loved this little detail on every (brilliant) helper’s shoulder at last week’s Information Design Conference held in Greenwich here in London. It typifies what information designers do best: coming up with a simple and appropriate solution specific to a context….

Malofiej20
Sadly I wasn’t able to go this year but here’s a great round up by Jonathon Berlin of the best, the quirky, the one and only, Malofiej annual infographics conference, highlighting the main themes, ideas, people. The roll call of…

The Data Journalism Handbook
It’s been an absolute pleasure preparing a poster about the Data Journalism Handbook, a free, open source reference book which shows how journalists can use data to improve the news. While the book’s being launched end-April at the International Journalism…

Tower graphics
I get at least two enquiries a month to create these* so it’s time to put down my thoughts about them. In a nutshell remember tower graphics are a piece of journalism as much as they are a piece of…

The use of colour
And Mr Brinton has good practical advice too, that’s as relevant today as it was back then.

Magic in graphs
There’s a lot of blog-debate over what’s good and what’s not in the fields of data visualisation, data journalism, storytelling, infographics at the moment. Given it’s a growing field this isn’t hugely surprising, the old hands having their experienced feathers…