Plotter Inktober 2020: Plotter Edition I'm participating in Inktober 2020, with the help of my pen plotter
Dataviz How Green is Your Stimulus? Different countries have dramatically different plans to restore their economies in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. Leading economists have called for a "green recovery", but only a handful of
Tenday Notes Tenday Notes: 8 Oct - 17 Oct Every ten days I share a quick digest of what I've been working on. Here's the latest. You can find more in the series here. Want them in your inbox?
Tenday Notes Tenday Notes: 28 Sep - 7 Oct Every ten days I share a quick digest of what I've been working on. Here's the latest. You can find more in the series here. Want them in your inbox?
Dataviz Emissions Inequality The world's richest 10% (that's you, most likely) are responsible for almost half of global emissions. The poorest half of the world's population? Just 7%. Here's a new visualization I've
Sketchbook Pages Sketchbook Pages #11 Here's another set of sketchbook pages! Lots of decorated shapes in this batch. I particularly like the page of flower-inspired layouts. Lots of fruit there for future visuals!
Plotter Chillplots For several months, over on my Plottervision YouTube channel, I've been hosting semi-regular streams that I call "Chillplots". Pen plotters are very satisfying to watch, so I figured it'd be
Tenday Notes Tenday Notes: 19 Sep - 27 Sep Every ten days I share a quick digest of what I've been working on. Here's the latest. You can find more in the series here. 2020 was supposed to be
Dataviz Climate Breakdown Beating climate change requires understanding the causes. Here’s a new graphic I’ve made that breaks down global emissions from 2016 (the latest year with global data available). Data
Behind the Scenes Tenday Notes 9 Sep - 18 Sep Every ten days I share a quick digest of what I've been working on. Here's the latest. You can find more in the series here. I like decimal numbers. That’
Completed Work Ekistics: An Exhibition of Utopian Pen Plotter Art Ekistics is the the science of human settlements, of how we fit into our environments, and how those environments affect us. The term was coined in 1942 by Greek archictect
Behind the Scenes Tenday Notes 29 Aug - 7 Sep Every ten days I share a quick digest of what I've been working on. Here's the latest. You can find more in the series here. The opening of Ekistics -
Tenday Notes Tenday Notes 19 August - 29 August Every ten days I share a quick digest of what I've been working on. Here's the latest. You can find more in the series here. Well, that was a lovely
Sketchbook Pages Sketchbook Pages #10 I've slowed down a little on my dataviz sketching lately, but here's a new set to tide you over until the inspiration flows a little more freely again.
Completed Work Climate Solutions for Cities One of the last projects I worked on before I left Information is Beautiful was a graphic for E.on Energy about greenhouse gas emissions in cities, and how we
Tenday Notes Tenday Notes 30 July - 8 August Every ten days I share a quick digest of what I've been working on. Here's the latest. You can find more in the series here. I'm heading into an intense
From the Archive From the Archive: Why We Name the Weather The other day, Will Chase published a wonderful data visualization of retired Atlantic hurricane names. 🚨 New Project! With 2020 predicted to be a big hurricane season, now would be a
Tenday Notes Tenday Notes 20 July - 29 July Every ten days I share a quick digest of what I've been working on. Here's the latest. You can find more in the series here. Why did no-one tell me
Dataviz Data Journalism Advice For Science Writers I was interviewed for a nice piece on The Open Notebook about data journalism for science writers. Interrogating Data: A Science Writer’s Guide to Data Journalism As with all
Generative Art Streamlined Generative Art I've spent some time over the last few days streamlining my generative art process. I would like there to be as little friction as possible between having an idea and
Tenday Notes Tenday Notes 10 July - 19 July Every ten days I share a quick digest of what I've been working on. Here's the latest. You can find more in the series here. My last ten days have
Completed Work Lighthouses of England and Wales, 1911 Inspired by The Historical Light Aids to Navigation dataset, via Jeremy Singer-Vine's wonderful Data is Plural newsletter, here's a map of the lighthouses surrounding the coasts of England and Wales
Sketchbook Pages Sketchbook Pages #9 I've been holding off a little on posting this one, because it contains a bunch of concepts for a project that isn't yet out. But the project has stalled a
Tenday Notes Tenday Notes 30 June - 9 July Every ten days I share a quick digest of what I've been working on. Here's the latest. You can find more in the series here. Today I went to the
Generative Art From the Archive: Structure de Quadrilatéres Back in May 2018, I attended OpenVisConf in Paris, and I took the opportunity to visit the "Artistes et Robots" exhibition at the Grand Palais. I saw a pen plotter
