Bar & Line

Tenday Notes 1 April - 10 April 2021

Every ten days I share a quick digest of what I've been working on. Here's the latest. More in the series here. Want them in your inbox? Sign up. I'm extremely proud to announce that over the Easter weekend, I did not record and release an album. I was intending

Tenday Notes

Tenday Notes 22 March - 31 March 2021

Every ten days I share a quick digest of what I've been working on. Here's the latest. More in the series here. Want them in your inbox? Sign up. If you're reading this, you're might already be aware of the existence of the Millennium Seed Bank - a vault in

Sketchbook Pages

Sketchbook Pages #14

I've not been sketching so much lately, which I should fix! But here are a few bits from earlier in the year - which also contain some first thoughts for work which will hopefully see the light of day soon! Want more sketchbook pages? Here's more sketchbook pages!

Loud Numbers

Telling Stories With Data & Music

Quick one to note that the talk I gave at Outlier conference back in February is now public! Watch my co-conspirator Miriam and I talk about what we've learnt working on our upcoming data sonification podcast, Loud Numbers, over the past year. Loud Numbers also has a release date, so

Tenday Notes

Tenday Notes 12 March - 21 March

Every ten days I share a quick digest of what I've been working on. Here's the latest. More in the series here. Want them in your inbox? Sign up. I like to rearrange things. Not meetings, or plans. Sometimes deckchairs. But I find putting physical things into a new layout

Tenday Notes

Tenday Notes 2 March - 11 March 2021

Every ten days I share a quick digest of what I've been working on. Here's the latest. More in the series here. Want them in your inbox? Sign up. One of the big surprises of my 2020 roundup posts was the popularity of the one on building community. Since I

Tenday Notes

Tenday Notes: 10 Feb - 1 Mar 2021

Every ten days I share a quick digest of what I've been working on. Here's the latest. More in the series here. Want them in your inbox? Sign up. To kick us off I want to talk a little bit about the environmental cost of blockchain technologies - and in

Writing

The Environmental Cost of CryptoArt

I want to talk a little bit about the environmental cost of blockchain technologies - and in particular the recent gold rush around crypto-art and NFTs. I've seen a lot of crazed excitement about this around my networks, and I think it's important to have all the information before you

Plotter

Cistercian Plotter Postcards

I've put together a limited series of four plotter postcards for the Feb 2021 Plotter Postcard Exchange. They use a numbering system developed by Cistercian monks in the 13th Century, where numbers up to 10,000 can be encoded in a single character. The Cistercian monks invented a numbering system

Tenday Notes

Tenday Notes: 10 Feb - 19 Feb 2021

Every ten days I share a quick digest of what I've been working on. Here's the latest. More in the series here. Want them in your inbox? Sign up. Let's start with a big question. Why am I writing this newsletter? (Note: this is the blog version of the notes,

Tenday Notes

Tenday Notes 31 Jan - 9 Feb 2021

Every ten days I share a quick digest of what I've been working on. Here's the latest. More in the series here. Want them in your inbox? Sign up. Outlier conference is over, and wow - what an experience. By far the best online conference I've ever attended, successful at

Sketchbook Pages

Sketchbook Pages #13

Lucky for some? I like the non-linear axes here, and the "Mesa Plot" seems like an interesting visual idea.

Tenday Notes

Tenday Notes 21 Jan - 30 Jan 2021

Every ten days I share a quick digest of what I've been working on. Here's the latest. More in the series here. Want them in your inbox? Sign up. First up a quick reminder that I'm speaking at Outlier conference next Friday, 5 February, at 9.10am UTC. You can

Plotter

Glaciers on Mt Rainier

I've been doing a little bit of plotting work with the idea of capturing "portraits" of glaciers, charting their retreat over time. This is one I've done of Mt Rainier in Washington, USA. I'm not sure it's quuiiiittteee working how I want it to work yet. It looks beautiful and

Tenday Notes

Tenday Notes 11 Jan - 20 Jan 2021

Every ten days I share a quick digest of what I've been working on. Here's the latest. More in the series here. Want them in your inbox? Sign up. The first weeks in my new job at Possible have been great. The team and culture are fantastic, and I've already

Tenday Notes

Tenday Notes 1 Jan - 10 Jan 2020

Every ten days I share a quick digest of what I've been working on. Here's the latest. More in the series here. Want them in your inbox? Sign up. This is a newsier collection of notes than normal because I have a few bits of personal news to share. That

Behind the Scenes

I'm joining Possible

This week I had my first day at Possible, a London-based climate charity. My official job title is "data visualization designer", which will involve creating data visualizations, infographics and maps - primarily on the Car-Free Cities campaign. I'll be working remotely from my home in Gothenburg, Sweden. PossiblePossibleTogether we made

Loud Numbers

I'm Speaking at Outlier 2021

The speakers for Outlier 2021, the first conference of the Data Visualization Society, have just been announced and I'm really pleased to be among them! Speakers — Outlier 2021Outlier 2021Together with Miriam Quick, I'll be talking about Loud Numbers - the data sonification podcast that we've been working on for a

2020 in Review

2020 in Review: Community Building

This the fourth of four end-of-year roundups that I'm writing about my work in 2020, covering information design, generative & data art, Loud Numbers and community building. I’ll be talking about what I’ve created over the course of the past year, but also what I’ve learnt in

Plotter

December Plots

Since Inktober finished, my plotter has been a lot quieter. Taking a break felt good. But I'm starting to experiment again with a few more generative pieces. Here's a small collection of things I've plotted recently.

2020 in Review

2020 in Review: Loud Numbers

Every week, I send out a development log newsletter for Loud Numbers, the data sonification podcast that I'm making with Miriam Quick. The latest episode features a round-up of all the work we've done on the project in 2020, and what we've learned along the way. I'm cross-posting it here

Writing

Telling Stories With Data & Music

I've just published an article for Nightingale, the Journal of the Data Visualization Society, on the new approach to sonification that we're taking with Loud Numbers. Here's an snippet: Our goal is to create something that not only tells a series of compelling data stories, but is also a pleasure

2020 in Review

2020 in Review: Generative & Data Art

This the second of three end-of-year roundups that I'm writing about my work in 2020, covering information design, generative & data art and community building. I’ll be talking about what I’ve created over the course of the past year, but also what I’ve learnt in the process.

Generative Art

Generative Postcards

Earlier this year, I sent a set of generative postcards to subscribers of my newsletter living all around the world. The postcards were all unique, their design generated by the address of the recipient and their answer to questions about their favourite kind of weather and time of day. From

2020 in Review

2020 in Review: Information Design

A year ago I wrote that "I have a love/hate relationship with roundup posts. I love reading them. I hate writing them." Well, it turns out that writing a blog and newsletter all year makes it a lot easier to remember things, which in turn makes the work of