Music In My Head A few weeks back, I appeared on a local radio station for a show called "In Your Head [http://www.k103.se/program/inyourhead]". It's a bit like Desert Island Discs - they invite someone on the show, and get to know them through a playlist
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 and all that. Here's my latest piece, which employed a bunch of techniques I've
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 an important step. Whatever you're making should be tailored to the people who'
Worknotes Tenday Notes: 2-11 March 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. You can find more in the series here [https://blog.duncangeere.com/tag/tenday-notes/]. My work on the Drawdown project has been published!
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 [https://howwegettonext.com/fowl-plague-82f020309aaa] - not my pun, unfortunately, but the original name for avian influenza when it was discovered in
Worknotes Tenday Notes: 21 Feb - 1 Mar 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. You can find more in the series here [https://blog.duncangeere.com/tag/tenday-notes/]. A hundred days ago, I began following a new
Completed Work Climate Change Solutions Towards the end of 2019, the team at Project Drawdown [https://www.drawdown.org/] got in touch to ask if I could help them out with data visualization for an update to their best-selling compendium of climate change solutions [https://www.drawdown.org/the-book]. A chance to develop graphics for
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 of it. One blur filter later, and I've got a set of images that capture how climate change
Generative Art Sharing Generative Sketches I've registered an Instagram account for my generative art sketches. Go check out @vhfseizures [https://www.instagram.com/vhfseizures/]. I'm not especially wild about using Instagram. Every third post in my feed is an ad these days, and often a crappy one at that. But it&
Sketchbook Pages Sketchbook Pages #4 Finished my beautiful Moomin "Håll Sverige Rent" sketchbook [https://www.muminboden.se/varumarken/putinki/mumin-anteckningsbok-mini-hsr-bla.html] ! 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 [https://twitter.com/humeursdevictor] for the link to better topographic data [https://www.data.gouv.fr/fr/datasets/bd-alti-r-75-m-250-m-1-000-m/] for France. The tiled heightmap for the whole country is a lovely mix of organic and synthetic, and
Behind the Scenes Work in Progress #4 Anyone know a good source of high-resolution elevation data for France?
Worknotes Tenday Notes: 11-20 Feb 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. You can find more in the series here [https://blog.duncangeere.com/tag/tenday-notes/]. I've been struggling to name a new
Code Generative Design Last week I ordered a new book, and yesterday it arrived. Generative Design [http://www.generative-gestaltung.de/2/] is a guide to creating generative art using the P5.js library. It includes a gentle tutorial on how to get started, but also a bunch of "recipes [http://www.generative-gestaltung.
Tools How Big? Hans Hack has developed a neat little tool [https://hanshack.com/geotools/howbig/] that lets you quickly draw a circle or square with a given area on a map, and download it as a GeoJSON. It's called "How Big". It's a handy way to
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!
Worknotes Tenday Notes: 1-10 Feb 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. You can find more in the series here [https://blog.duncangeere.com/tag/tenday-notes/]. The last ten days have mostly been about finishing
Dataviz Our Future on Earth I worked on data visualization for a new FutureEarth [https://twitter.com/FutureEarth] report that connects recent news events with the latest environmental science research. Here's how it's described in the report itself: > This report provides a snapshot of our world at the start of
Tools I Love Tools I Love #3: Figma Here's a confession - I've never got comfortable with Adobe Illustrator. I'm pretty good with Photoshop. I've got a comfortable handle on Lightroom. But mastery of Illustrator has always eluded me. Why? Because it's bad software. It's slow,
Experiments Make Your Own Data Glyphs With Joyful Data The folks at Gramener's Storylabs have built a "happy little tool" built on JOY.JS [https://ncase.me/joy/] that allows you to create your own system for encoding data in glyphs. It's called Joyful Data [https://gramener.com/joyfuldata/]. Joyful Data — make happy
Completed Work This is how Europe is ushering in a new golden era of train travel A short piece by me for The Wired World in 2020 [https://www.wired.co.uk/topic/the-wired-world-in-2020] has just made it onto the web. It was written about six months ago, so it's not totally up-to-date, but it's the first thing I've done
Behind the Scenes A New Approach One month of daily posts on my new workblog! Yay! But already it's starting to feel like a bit of a chore each day, and quite often I end up putting things in a queue and publishing them a few days after the rest of the internet is
Inspiration Centring the Reader Charles-Joseph Minard [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Joseph_Minard] was a 19th-century civil engineer, who become famous for his early contributions to information design. You've almost certainly seen his map of Napoleon's disastrous 1812 Russia campaign [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Minard.png]. But
Inspiration The Organograms of Government What does your organisation's structure look like? You could draw an org chart, but how about an drawing an organogram instead? These charts were put together by Peter Cook, and show how different parts of the UK government are structured (or were in 2014, anyway). Okay, so maybe
