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Tenday Notes 31 Jan - 9 Feb 2021

Tenday Notes 31 Jan - 9 Feb 2021

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]. Outlier

Sketchbook Pages #13

Sketchbook Pages

Sketchbook Pages #13

Lucky for some? I like the non-linear axes here, and the "Mesa Plot" seems like an interesting visual idea.

Tenday Notes 21 Jan - 30 Jan 2021

Tenday Notes 21 Jan - 30 Jan 2021

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

Glaciers on Mt Rainier

Glaciers on Mt Rainier

I've been doing a little bit of plotting work with the idea of capturing "portraits" of glaciers, charting their retreat over time. This is one I've done of Mt Rainier in Washington, USA. I'm not sure it's quuiiiittteee working how

Tenday Notes 11 Jan - 20 Jan 2021

Tenday Notes 11 Jan - 20 Jan 2021

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]. The

Tenday Notes 1 Jan - 10 Jan 2020

Tenday Notes 1 Jan - 10 Jan 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]. This

I'm joining Possible

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

I'm Speaking at Outlier 2021

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: Community Building

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

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: Loud Numbers

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

Telling Stories With Data & Music

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: Generative & Data Art

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 Postcards

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: Information Design

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

Tenday Notes 17 Nov - 26 Nov 2020

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

The Weight of the World

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

Tenday Notes 7 Nov - 16 Nov 2020

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 #12

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] .

Tenday Notes 28 Oct - 6 Nov 2020

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]. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

What I Learned From 31 Days of Generative Inktober Sketches

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,

Inktober 2020: Plotter Edition

Inktober 2020: Plotter Edition

I'm participating in Inktober 2020, with the help of my pen plotter

Tenday Notes 18 Oct - 27 Oct

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]. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Relaunching Duncangeere.com

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'

How Green is Your Stimulus?

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