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Drawing Cultural Position: Transmission of Power Among Ancestors and Descendants

Part 11 in a series on global information design explores the forms and themes of lineage diagrams

17 min readNov 27, 2020

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Drawing Cultural Position: Transmission of Power Among Ancestors and Descendants

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The Visual Agency

The Boston View — Visualizing Complex Data: COVID-19 & More

In an online talk for the Design Museum, Paolo Ciuccarelli and I spoke about how the rhetoric, aesthetics and techniques of data…

3 min readSep 15, 2020

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The Boston View — Visualizing Complex Data: COVID-19 & More

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Nightingale

Touching Minard

An examination of the original diagrams by Charles-Joseph Minard, and related materials by Léon Lalanne and Émile Cheysson in the ENPC…

24 min readJun 1, 2020

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Touching Minard

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Nightingale

Over and Under the City, vacillating between the simple and the familiar

Part 10 in a series on global information design, the fourth of four on Transportation Diagrams

15 min readMar 12, 2020

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Over and Under the City, vacillating between the simple and the familiar

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Nightingale

Reaching Invisible Destinations: Information Design for Sea and Air Transportation

Part 9 in a series on global information design continuing examples of Transportation Diagrams

20 min readJan 31, 2020

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Reaching Invisible Destinations: Information Design for Sea and Air Transportation

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Paul Kahn
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Nightingale

On the Road, from the Postal Web to Lincoln Highway

Part 8 in a series on global information design continuing the history of road transportation diagrams

15 min readDec 31, 2019

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On the Road, from the Postal Web to Lincoln Highway

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Nightingale

Visualizing Overland, When All Roads Led to Rome

Part 7 in a series on global information design explores transportation and road maps

10 min readDec 18, 2019

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Visualizing Overland, When All Roads Led to Rome

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Nightingale

City Maps: Ways to View the Polis

Part 6 in a series on global information design explores historical maps that represent the ways we view the city

18 min readNov 27, 2019

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City Maps: Ways to View the Polis

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Nightingale

Kingdom Maps: Drawing the Boundary Between Us and Them

Part 5 in a series on global information design explores historical maps that superimpose political influence onto physical space

14 min readNov 11, 2019

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Kingdom Maps: Drawing the Boundary Between Us and Them

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Nightingale

Maps = Eyes + Imagination, Envisioning the Known World

Part 4 in a series exploring global information design looks back at some of the earliest maps of the world

19 min readOct 30, 2019

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Maps = Eyes + Imagination, Envisioning the Known World

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Paul Kahn

Paul Kahn

Lecturer Northeastern Univ, IA and UX at Kahn+Assoc, Dynamic Diagrams & Mad*Pow. Hypertext research & information design, books: Mapping Websites, UnderStAnding

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