@nigelblue
 westport, ct, usa
Joined July 2009
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Longtime #SVA faculty member Steven Heller, and co-chair of the College's MFA Design Department, has been named a 2024 Educators Hall of Fame Inductee by the @TheOneClub. Congrats to @TheDailyHeller! link.sva.edu/3PTVwLi
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Over the last 3 years, my team and I worked with over 30 clients, designed and launched the McKinsey Health Institute, and contributed to many high-profile events like McKinsey's presence at COP26. /2
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SO exciting to feature Nigel in issue 4 (and I took most of the photos! Woohooo!) GO GET YOUR COPY!!!! WOOHOO!
Data Visualization Society@DataVizSociety26 Mar 2024
We are proud to feature an interview with the great Nigel Holmes @Nigelblue in the next issue of Nightingale Magazine! He shares stories of his work at Time Magazine and of rebuffing the slings and arrows of Edward Tufte. Curious? shop.datavisualizationsociet…
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latest nightingale mag just arrived from the great @datavizsociety team; this issue is all about emotion…wonderful piece by ally levine about using cyanotypes in a very sensitive way. plus, i’m in it, but don’t let that put you off!
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@Rainmaker197324 Feb 2024
Who lived when?
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@infowetrust16 Feb 2024
All-blue @nigelblue c.1991 ! – at San Francisco, CA
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Replying to @infowetrust @nigelblue
I mean, we simply couldn't use any other color! haha! It goes to the printer in the next few days! WOOHOO!
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@infowetrust31 Jan 2024
Pure joy @nigelblue in blue, in Nightingale magazine! pre-order your copy of NIGHTINGALE shop.datavisualizationsociet…
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#TodayinHistory #datavis #Onthisday #OTD 🎂Dec 10, 1882 Otto Neurath born in Vienna, Austria 🇦🇹 1 924: Museum of Social Statistical Graphics and the ISOTYPE system
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Books are ready on display @InfoPlusConf! Including @makingwithdata, @datasketches, @questionsinDV, @christiansenjen, @nigelblue & many more. Browse in the break area! And take a flyer for more info. #infoplus2023 #dataviz @tamaramunzner @AlbertoCairo @CRCPress @tandfSTEM
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sunset paddle vibes, cc: @nigelblue – at San Francisco, CA
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7/Joyful Infographics: A Friendly, Human Approach to Data by @nigelblue: routledge.com/Joyful-Infogra… “Floods of data have made it necessary to increase data literacy. What better way than through humor? Who better than the pioneer, Nigel Holmes?” @thedailyheller #IEEEVIS #VIS2023

Joyful Infographics: A Friendly, Human Approach to Data

In Joyful Infographics: A Friendly, Human Approach to Data, one of the leading graphic designers of recent times shows how a judicious use of humor can make infographics more understandable. Written...

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Datawrapper
@Datawrapper18 Oct 2023
📚 After two years, we’re bringing the Data Vis Book Club (@datavisclub) back! And we’re so excited about the next book, @ChristiansenJen’s “Building Science Graphics”. Join us for the written discussion with her on December 4th! Here’s how to participate: blog.datawrapper.de/book-clu…

Read “Building Science Graphics” by Jen Christiansen with us! | Datawrapper Blog

“I wrote this book so that I’d finally have a singular and reasonably comprehensive reference to recommend to students and scientists who ask me how to create more considered diagrams…”

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Alli Torban@AlliTorban28 Aug 2023
my favorite project is over 3 years old!🤯
Alli Torban@AlliTorban7 Apr 2020
#The100DayProject I’m imagining what a #dataviz designer’s wallpaper would look like throughout the past century. 🤗 Here’s my #DataVizWallpaper for 1920!
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This article is super interesting! RIP! nytimes.com/2023/08/24/techn…

John Warnock, Inventor of the PDF, Dies at 82 (Published 2023)

As a founder of Adobe Systems, he oversaw the development of software and systems that made modern personal computing possible.

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❝I don’t think it’s very important what your tools are as long as you’re doing this thing. You do what works. And you let go what doesn’t work.❞ —Sam Harry Gross, born on this day, August 7, in 1933
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My cartoon Wednesday @TheTimes. A jailbird could be elected in US…#DonaldTrump #Indictment3
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"The World Geo-Graphic Atlas" is a monument to Bayer’s singular vision, a precursor to current trends in dataviz. Benjamin Benus "Herbert Bayer’s World Geo-Graphic Atlas and Information Design at Midcentury" is essential for all ine information strategy. printmag.com/daily-heller/th…
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… and fwiw some thoughts on drawing and AI
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Check out @nigelblue on the Season 9 finale of the @PolicyViz Podcast. We talk about finding joy in your data visualization work and much, much more. | 📺Watch: buff.ly/3NWWHYm 🎙Listen: buff.ly/3Y0cL07
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