Tenday Notes Tenday Notes 22-31 March 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. Ruby is a programming language
Inspiration Society Centred Design If you work in the design space, or with designers, then you'll likely have heard of human-centred design. It's a concept which states that well-designed products and services are those
Generative Art Mountain Drive I spent a chunky part of the last 24 hours or so learning about noise. Specifically, about Perlin noise - a way to generate random numbers that feel more organic
Inspiration Active Participation There was a great piece by Kevin Roose in the New York Times last week, which has only just filtered through the streams to reach me. It's about how Covid-19
Tools I Love Tools I Love #4: Google Sheets I don't know if I've ever made a visualization without Google Sheets. Like the sturdy vessel of a seasoned explorer, it's fast, powerful, and a key part of almost every
Inspiration The World As a Subway Map The New York Times has published a good* scrollytelling piece about Covid-19, which makes use of particle flows to show how the virus spread from a single market in Wuhan
Tenday Notes Tenday Notes: 12-21 March 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. It's sometimes strange how projects
Music In My Head A few weeks back, I appeared on a local radio station for a show called "In Your Head". It's a bit like Desert Island Discs - they invite someone on
Generative Art Beachside 1 My generative art skills are progressing faster than they might otherwise, thanks to all the time freed up that I'd normally be spending hanging out with other humans. Every cloud
Writing How to Identify Your Audience Often when creating something to share information - a report, a blog post, a data visualization - we're told to ask ourselves who the audience for that thing is. It's
Tenday Notes Tenday Notes: 2-11 March 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. My work on the Drawdown
From the Archive From the Archive: Fowl Plague Back in 2017, I worked on a series of articles about the risk of a major pandemic for How We Get To Next. The series was called Fowl Plague -
Tenday Notes Tenday Notes: 21 Feb - 1 Mar 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. A hundred days ago, I
Completed Work Climate Change Solutions Towards the end of 2019, the team at Project Drawdown got in touch to ask if I could help them out with data visualization for an update to their best-selling
Generative Art Smoulder 1-5 I was making some generative versions of what I wanted my upcoming Carbon in Context graphic to vaguely look like. Then I put in some ridiculous values for the fun
Generative Art Sharing Generative Sketches I've registered an Instagram account for my generative art sketches. Go check out @vhfseizures. I'm not especially wild about using Instagram. Every third post in my feed is an ad
Sketchbook Pages Sketchbook Pages #4 Finished my beautiful Moomin "Håll Sverige Rent" sketchbook! Now to figure out a filing scheme for posterity. In the meantime, here are the last few sketches it contains.
Behind the Scenes Work in Progress #5 Mont Poupet and Nans Sous St Anne, in Franche Comte. Thanks to @humeursdevictor for the link to better topographic data for France. The tiled heightmap for the whole country is
Behind the Scenes Work in Progress #4 Anyone know a good source of high-resolution elevation data for France?
Tenday Notes Tenday Notes: 11-20 Feb 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. I've been struggling to name
Code Generative Design Last week I ordered a new book, and yesterday it arrived. Generative Design is a guide to creating generative art using the P5.js library. It includes a gentle tutorial
Tools How Big? Hans Hack has developed a neat little tool that lets you quickly draw a circle or square with a given area on a map, and download it as a GeoJSON.
Sketchbook Pages Sketchbook Pages #3 More pages from my sketchbook. I clearly don't know how to draw voronoi diagrams, but you get the idea. The line charts are my favourite!
Tenday Notes Tenday Notes: 1-10 Feb 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. The last ten days have
Dataviz Our Future on Earth I worked on data visualization for a new FutureEarth report that connects recent news events with the latest environmental science research. Here's how it's described in the report itself: This
