Behind the Scenes I'm joining Possible This week I had my first day at Possible [https://www.wearepossible.org/], 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
Loud Numbers I'm Speaking at Outlier 2021 The speakers for Outlier 2021 [https://www.outlierconf.com/], the first conference of the Data Visualization Society, have just been announced and I'm really pleased to be among them! Speakers — Outlier 2021Outlier 2021 [https://www.outlierconf.com/speakers] Together with Miriam Quick, I'll be talking about
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 [https://blog.duncangeere.com/2020inreview-informationdesign/], generative & data art [https://blog.duncangeere.com/2020inreview-generativeart/], Loud Numbers [https://blog.duncangeere.com/2020inreview-loudnumbers/] and community building. I’ll be talking about what
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 [http://buttondown.email/loudumbers] for Loud Numbers [http://www.loudnumbers.net], the data sonification podcast that I'm making with Miriam Quick [http://www.miriamquick.com]. The latest episode features a round-up of all the work we've done
Writing Telling Stories With Data & Music I've just published an article for Nightingale [https://medium.com/nightingale?source=post_page-----f60ac0b5f1be--------------------------------] , 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
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 [https://blog.duncangeere.com/2020inreview-informationdesign/], generative & data art and community building [https://blog.duncangeere.com/2020inreview-communitybuilding/]. I’ll be talking about what I’ve created over the course of
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 [https://blog.duncangeere.com/dataviz-in-2019/] 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 [https://blog.duncangeere.com/] and newsletter [http://buttondown.email/duncangeere] all year
Worknotes Tenday Notes 17 Nov - 26 Nov 2020 Every ten days [https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Tenday] I share a quick digest of what I've been working on. Here's the latest. More in the series here [https://blog.duncangeere.com/tag/tenday-notes/]. Want them in your inbox? Sign up [http://buttondown.email/duncangeere]. First
Dataviz The Weight of the World The total mass of humankind is now ten times greater than the total mass of all wild terrestrial mammals - and that's before you account for domesticated animals, which account for twice as much biomass again. The data in this visualization comes from Vaclav Smil's 2011
Worknotes Tenday Notes 7 Nov - 16 Nov 2020 Every ten days [https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Tenday] I share a quick digest of what I've been working on. Here's the latest. More in the series here [https://blog.duncangeere.com/tag/tenday-notes/]. Want them in your inbox? Sign up [http://buttondown.email/duncangeere]. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Sketchbook Pages Sketchbook Pages #12 More pages from my dataviz sketchbook. This time I took some inspiration from my generative art experiments, and also from Phaidon's History of Information Graphics [https://www.taschen.com/pages/en/catalogue/graphic_design/all/03435/facts.history_of_information_graphics.htm] .
Worknotes Tenday Notes 28 Oct - 6 Nov 2020 Every ten days [https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Tenday] I share a quick digest of what I've been working on. Here's the latest. More in the series here [https://blog.duncangeere.com/tag/tenday-notes/]. Want them in your inbox? Sign up [http://buttondown.email/duncangeere]. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Generative Art What I Learned From 31 Days of Generative Inktober Sketches During the month of October 2020, I created 31 pieces of generative art – one a day – from a list of prompts [https://blog.duncangeere.com/content/images/2020/10/2020promptlist.jpg] published by the folks at Inktober [https://inktober.com/]. Normally people draw their artworks in a notebook by hand,
Plotter Inktober 2020: Plotter Edition I'm participating in Inktober 2020, with the help of my pen plotter
Worknotes Tenday Notes 18 Oct - 27 Oct Every ten days [https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Tenday] I share a quick digest of what I've been working on. Here's the latest. More in the series here [https://blog.duncangeere.com/tag/tenday-notes/]. Want them in your inbox? Sign up [http://buttondown.email/duncangeere]. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Completed Work Relaunching Duncangeere.com Over the weekend, I hit "publish" on the newest version of duncangeere.com. It's live now, you should go check it out [http://www.duncangeere.com]. This is, I believe, the fifth incarnation of duncangeere.com since I registered the domain in November 2009. Here'
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 countries are taking measures which will reduce greenhouse gas emissions while creating jobs. The net effect on the
Worknotes Tenday Notes: 8 Oct - 17 Oct Every ten days [https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Tenday] I share a quick digest of what I've been working on. Here's the latest. You can find more in the series here [https://blog.duncangeere.com/tag/tenday-notes/]. Want them in your inbox? Sign up [http://buttondown.
Worknotes Tenday Notes: 28 Sep - 7 Oct Every ten days [https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Tenday] I share a quick digest of what I've been working on. Here's the latest. You can find more in the series here [https://blog.duncangeere.com/tag/tenday-notes/]. Want them in your inbox? Sign up [http://buttondown.
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 put together illustrating this inequality: The data comes from a
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 [https://www.youtube.com/c/plottervision], I've been hosting semi-regular streams that I call "Chillplots". Pen plotters are very satisfying to watch, so I figured it'd be fun to show my Axidraw V3/A3 pen
Worknotes Tenday Notes: 19 Sep - 27 Sep Every ten days [https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Tenday] I share a quick digest of what I've been working on. Here's the latest. You can find more in the series here [https://blog.duncangeere.com/tag/tenday-notes/]. 2020 was supposed to be a year of walking.
