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29 NOVEMBER, 2013

Mondrian Meets Euclid: An Eccentric Victorian Mathematician’s Masterwork of Art and Science

Primary colors, geometry, and graphic design before there was graphic design.

20 NOVEMBER, 2013

Fritz Kahn: The Little-Known Godfather of Infographics

How a German gynecologist transformed science into visual poetry and laid the foundations of modern information graphics.

18 NOVEMBER, 2013

How Hans Christian Andersen Revolutionized Storytelling, Plus the Best Illustrations from 150 Years of His Beloved Fairy Tales

“Andersen had the ability to articulate desires petty and profound and make them into transcendent tales.”

08 OCTOBER, 2013

How to Be an Educated Consumer of Infographics: David Byrne on the Art-Science of Visual Storytelling

Cultivating the ability to experience the “geeky rapture” of metaphorical thinking and pattern recognition.