I’m so excited to welcome Ellen Lupton to the PolicyViz Podcast! In this week’s episode, we discuss various aspects of typography and design, emphasizing the importance of typography in enhancing content and ensuring inclusivity in design. We also talk about…
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Giorgia Lupi joins the show to discuss her work in data visualization, her journey from Accurat studios to Pentagram, and how she takes a human-centric perspective to working with and communicating data. Giorgia shares her experience with long COVID, explaining…
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Summary In the first episode of The PolicyViz Podcast of 2024, I speak with Sheila Pontis and Michael Babwahsingh, the authors of the new book, Information Design Unbound. The book, which contains over 400 images and input from more than…
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Nigel Holmes is a British/American graphic designer, author, and theorist, who focuses on information graphics and information design. Graduating from Royal College of Art in London in 1966, Holmes ran his own successful graphic design practice in England. From 1966…
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I’ve been thinking about how to make my chart legends more engaging. I prefer to directly label my data rather than using legends that are separated from the data, but when I need a legend—say, on a map or a…
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Stefanie Posavec is a designer, artist, and author whose practice focuses on finding new, experimental approaches to communicating data and information. This work has been exhibited internationally at major galleries including the V&A, the Design Museum, Somerset House, and the Wellcome…
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I’ve thought a lot about this connected scatterplot from the Washington Post’s Philip Bump over the previous few months. I’m not interested in the graph because the data are particularly interesting or I care so much about President Biden’s approval…
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Edith Young is an artist, designer, and writer from New York. Princeton Architectural Press published her first book, Color Scheme: An Irreverent History of Art and Pop Culture Through Color Palettes, in 2021. This is the final podcast episode of…
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Abby Covert is an information architect, writer and community organizer with two decades of experience helping people make sense of messes. In addition to being an active mentor to those new to sensemaking, she has also served the design community…
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One of the encouraging trends in the data visualization space right now is the focus on accessibility. While the data visualization field has for too long focused solely on visual impairments—primarily red-green color vision deficiency or “color blindness”—there is more…
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