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Design story: The Decanter from Landor Associates on Vimeo.  (thanks to Craig for sharing it!) 1

During the Tufte talk today I started thinking about self-generated visualizations ( thanks Nadeem for pointing out some of the examples and conversing on the subject with me ) . I know it’s not a new thing but in my head it’s a new visualization category. The more I think about it the more examples [...]

I attended a one day course on presenting data and information by Edward Tufte today. For me the most exciting part was walking out with 4 of his books at the end. I felt like I was back at school for a couple of hours which was funny. It was a crowded room, with rows [...]

Kate and I had an interesting conversation yesterday at Rock Bottom Brewery about art and design and whether they stand at opposite ends of an imaginary spectrum or not. Eventually we put “engineering” and “art” on opposite ends of a spectrum and decided design falls somewhere in the middle. Going towards the art end on [...]