Going through some older bookmarks, I re-discovered this little gem created by Ben Mautner of Wider Angle: Population One: One Pixel is One Person While I’m ordinarily not a fan of web pages requiring horizontal scrolling, I found this to be a terrific application for an otherwise frustrating task. In fact, in this case, I… Read more »
Posts Tagged: social issues
Racial diversity in the design industry
First published a year ago now, but still all too relevant, Terry Lee Stone has written a terrific article for Step Inside Design entitled White Space: Examining racial diversity in the design industry. The article details the disproportionate percentage of white designers in the U.S., relative to the racial breakdown of the entire U.S. labor… Read more »
Images of numbers (and ourselves)
I’ve long been inspired by examples of effective use of visual imagery to represent quantitative information. It was this inspiration that initially drew me to Chris Jordan’s photography, but it is his ability to spark introspection through his images that makes them stay with me. Jordan’s latest exhibit, “RUNNING THE NUMBERS: An American Self-Portrait“, is… Read more »
