Tangents

  • Gchatting with Jennifer Daniel
    Bloomberg Businessweek’s graphics director on pictograms, clowns, and outsourcing sex ed to Yahoo! Answers
  • The Value of the Designer Who Codes
    This was a story about two people. But imagine how powerful it would be if it were about one. What if the design vision of Steve Jobs could be in the same brain as the engineering excellence of Chris Espinosa?
  • Video: PressPausePlay
    The digital revolution of the last decade has unleashed creativity and talent in an unprecedented way, with unlimited opportunities. But does democratized culture mean better art or is true talent instead drowned out?
  • 10 New Year’s Resolutions for Designers
    We did pretty good last year. This year? This year’s gonna be a goddamned golden age. Last year we trained. This year we fight.  
  • Postmortem: BusinessWeek’s Year-End Issue
    The year-end issue, like all of our special issues in general and 2010’s year-end specifically, was cruel to the graphics desk. 7-day workweeks. Sleep dep. Spiders living in my neckbeard. But it turned out nice, so I’ll walk you through the process of getting my charts on page.
  • Notable Op-Ed Art of 2011
    A selection of visual highlights from the past year.
  • Damon Winter's Portraits of Lives Restored
    "With the final installment of the Lives Restored series published this week, Damon Winter discusses the challenges he faced in capturing what's essentially invisible: what happens inside someone's mind."
  • Substratum Interviews Amanda Cox
    "When you can help to clarify something complicated, that’s a worthwhile endeavor and that’s the part that I think is the most fun."
  • Massoud Hossaini's Front-Page Photograph From an Attack in Kabul - NYTimes.com
    Massoud Hossaini has never cried like this before. His photograph of a young Shiite woman, bloody and screaming, made the front page of The New York Times this morning. It also appeared on the front page of The Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post.
  • An interview with the creator of the Comic Sans
    Former Microsoft Typographic Engineer and accomplished photographer talks about his experiences working for Microsoft, where he got the inspiration for Comic Sans, what he makes of the vocal criticism of the font, and his perspective on the future of typography
  • How infographics jumped the shark
    Infographics are incredibly useful for cutting through today’s data overload, but their proliferation puts them at risk of being overused, and their impact diluted.
  • The Evolution of iPad Magazine Designs
    A quick tour through the evolution of different magazines' design ideas sheds some light on what's been working and what's just a waste of pixels. Our brief history is by no means exhaustive -- there are a ton of different magazine apps out there -- but we've done our best to cover the most influential trends.

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