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
Tenday Notes Tenday Notes 20 June - 29 June 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. A couple of days after
Tenday Notes Tenday Notes 10 June - 19 June 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 spent the whole morning
Dataviz Should you study a masters degree in data visualization? Quite often, I get asked about careers in data visualization by people who want to get into the field - either at the start of their career or in the
Tenday Notes Tenday Notes 31 May - 9 June 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. Last weekend, at a digital
Tenday Notes Tenday Notes 21 May - 30 May 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 live in Gothenburg on
Sketchbook Pages Sketchbook Pages #8 A monochrome collection, with two sets of glyphs. This is probably the influence of my generative art work appearing in my data sketches, but there are plenty of opportunities for
Tenday Notes Tenday Notes 11 May - 20 May 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 first Dataplotter video is
Behind the Scenes How to Start Dataviz Sketching Last week, I was invited to be a panellist on the Data Visualization Society's latest "fireside chat", talking about the ways I use sketching in my visualization process. It was
Sketchbook Pages Sketchbook Pages #7 Lots of length encodings today. Some lollipop charts (which I love), a few different approaches to back-to-back bars and overlapping bars, and then some rather weather-inspired graphical forms which could
Tenday Notes Tenday Notes 1 May - 10 May 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. At the start of the
Dataviz Introducing Dataplotter I've been working on a new series of videos for my nascent pen plotter YouTube channel (Plottervision), drawing and narrating data stories. It's called Dataplotter. In it, I'm doing something
Dataviz Defining Information Design, Data Visualization and Infographics This morning, in the Data Visualization Society's wonderful Slack community, Jane Zhang asked a question. She asked: Has there been any good articles that are well-thought out that try to
Tenday Notes Tenday Notes 21 April - 30 April 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. Remember when everyone had a
Generative Art Height Noise I understand that many people fall in love with Perlin noise when they first learn about it. It did win an Oscar, after all. But why use a simulation of
Completed Work Ideal Cities I've long been fascinated by the concept of arcologies - self-sustaining cities that need little from the outside world. In 2011 I wrote about the concept for Wired, and about
Tenday Notes Tenday Notes: 11 April - 20 April 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. Day.... five(?) in plotterland, and
Completed Work 20 Years of Human Presence on the International Space Station A few weeks back, I collaborated with Katarina Eriksson of Märka Design to create a visualization of the inhabitants of the International Space Station over the years. It was an
Behind the Scenes Blogroll: The Blogs I Love Remember when everyone had a blogroll? You probably do not, but I do. It was wonderful to see what the people you read were reading. So, in no particular order
Writing A Dashboard for Planet Earth Over on Nightingale, the Journal of the Data Visualization Society, I've written a 3,000 word feature on one of my favourite environmental visuals - the planetary boundary graphic. Here's
Sketchbook Pages Sketchbook Pages #6 Back to charts for my latest set of sketchbook pages. Lexis diagrams, area charts, a xenographic concept called treemap bars that I really like for hierarchical data, and some new
Dataviz The Logpile Chart A couple of months back, an idea came to me in a dream. That sounds ridiculous, I know, but it's true. I woke up one morning with a clear-as-crystal picture
Plotter A Weekend With a Plotter It was pretty good timing that my plotter arrived just before the Easter weekend. I had a full four days to experiment with it and start to get to grips
Tenday Notes Tenday Notes 1 April - 10 April 2020 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. Since starting university in 2002
Plotter A Wild Plotter Appears! I'm extremely excited to say that I'm now the proud owner of a pen plotter. Specifically, the Axidraw V3/A3. I had a grand plan to save up money slowly
