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visualization + design
Visions of Type
Posters are sized 11" x 17" at 150 dpi with 0.25" bleed.
type peep show—the private curves of letters
Sometimes to understand the whole, we need to look more closely at its parts. Completely safe for work.
I include Emigre's Platelet because it's such a goofy and fun font. One look at the lower case b and you know this isn't a type face that wears a tie.
lusting for ampersands
To me the ampersand is the letter I always say yes to.
sixteen ands
Below, sixteen ampersands from different fonts are centered vertically and horizontally. Look how they blend together to reveal a consensus letter.
sixteen faces
Finding inspiration in this IKEA Olunda poster of Akzidenz-Grotesk, I've rendered the full alphabet in sixteen faces. Look at how agreeable the T's are. But the J's — oh, the J's — a riot.
news + thoughts
Figure Design and Writing — Two Goals, One Process
This month I look at how creating effective figures is similar to the process of writing well in the Points of View column Elements of Visual Style.
Using Strunk's Elements of Style as an example of writing guidelines, I look how these can be translated to creating figures.
VIZBI 2013 Keynote—Visual Design Principles
When we create figures, we must communicate and design. In my talk I discuss some of the rules that turn graphical improvisation into a structured and reproducible process.
The fractal tree was created with OneZoom, which received the best poster award at the conference.
Happy Pi Day— 3.14
Celebrate Pi Day (March 14th) with a funky modern posters. Transcend, don't repeat, yourself and watch the dots shimmer.
The posters were inspired by the beautiful AIDS posters by Elena Miska.
For the Love of Type
I am always drawn to type and periodically I must do something about it.
If you were a type, what type would you be? Me, Gill Sans on weekdays and Perpetua on the weekend.
Return of Nature Methods Points of View
I take over from Bang Wong as primary contributor to the Points of View column, a monthly advice and opinion piece about data visualization and information and figure design in molecular biology.
