Visualisation literacy: The PhD
Since about the time of my last blog post my year has been gearing up towards today, my first day as student again after 20 years… A perfect storm of factors at the beginning of this year has come to…
Quoting others
Just to point you to a new page on my site listing a selection of resources relating to visual journalism, data journalism, infographics and data visualisation. I keep making different versions of this for different people, so this is an…
Networks: Coming to a network near you soon
If you haven’t been asked to create a network diagram yet, you will be soon. Here’s some good context, illustrating how we’ve got to our current state of organised complexity. See and hear the full story below – another excellent…
Learning to spot patterns
Seeing this lovely set of playing cards gives me the excuse to air a thought I had a while ago. As a child I played cards lots. And the skills I didn’t realise I was learning are dead useful for…
Infograduates?
I was just updating dates for the grad shows I usually visit in London – over there in the right-hand column ‘Food for thought in London’ – and once again the volume of work on offer is enormous. So, to…
Education – time for a change
There is no obvious career path for people who end up being infografistas, and maybe that’s because it pulls on a raft of skills from a raft of disciplines that aren’t addressed by our education system today. And I’m well…
People-centred design research
One show that comes around at the same time as all the grad shows is the one at the RCA’s Helen Hamlyn Centre for People-centred design research, this year called The Lives of Others. The emphasis is on designing products,…