I Asked an Artificial Intelligence to Draw a Chart
A new generation of text-to-image generative models are rapidly changing what is possible in generative design. Two apps in particular, Midjourney and Dalle-E 2, have..
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Mary Aviles, Jason Forrest & Claire Santoro
How to Write for Nightingale
Everything you ever wanted to know to publish with us! In addition to helping writers to level up their skills, these guidelines provide alignment for..
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Mary Aviles, datacitron, Jason Forrest & Claire Santoro
Nightingale Magazine, Issue 1 Retro: What We Learned
Now that the Spring 2022 issue of Nightingale Magazine is showing up in mailboxes all around the world, the editorial team wanted to share some..
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Jason Forrest
Patrick Abercrombie’s “The Greater London Plan”
One of my favorite works of data visualization is a map from “The Greater London Plan” in 1944. This semi-abstract map by Patrick Abercrombie and..
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Jason Forrest
REVIEW: Atlas of the Invisible
It’s been about 450 years since Theatrum Orbis Terrarum was published by Dutch cartographers in 1570 as an attempt to collect the entirety of knowledge..
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Jason Forrest
REVIEW: Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch
The art of fandom is to observe and infer. This is especially true in cinema as the cult of the auteur director fuels our reverence..
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Mary Aviles & Jason Forrest
Information Empowerment Bridges Expertise to Amplify Impact, Part 2
Part two of a six-part series on the application of design thinking for data practitioners, business intelligence analysts, researchers, and anyone working with data. Catch..
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Jason Forrest & Raeedah Wahid
Interview with the South China Morning Post Infographics Team
One of the most interesting teams in the world has to be the Infographics team of the South China Morning Post. Based in Hong Kong,..
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Mary Aviles & Jason Forrest
Information Empowerment is a Universal Theory for Data Design, Part 1
Part one of a six-part series on the application of design thinking for data practitioners, business intelligence analysts, researchers, and anyone working with data.Jason comes..
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Jason Forrest
REVIEW: Julie Mehretu, New Museum of American Art
We are all conglomerations of our influences, remembrances, and fascinations but few artists have assembled them on as vast a scale as Julie Mehretu. The..
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Jason Forrest & Mary Aviles
NIGHTINGALE IS FREE!
Last week Nightingale celebrated a major achievement. Since our launch in 2019, we always planned to have a stand-alone website and create a platform to..
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Jason Forrest
NEW YORK ALIVE! Blending Performance and Data Art
I love non-traditional data visualization and I regularly think about how we can continue to push the boundaries. There are many ways to entertain, motivate, and..
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Jason Forrest
The Influence of Isotype in New Deal Information Design: A Resettlement Administration Exhibition, 1936
How the design concept influenced the American government's campaign to help its vulnerable populations.
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Jason Forrest
Lessons Of Isotype: “Only An Ocean Between” (Part 1)
There’s much to be told in the story of the Isotype. The International System Of Typographic Picture Education (ISOTYPE) was invented by Otto Neurath in collaboration with his wife Marie Neurath, and Gerd Arntz. While..
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Jason Forrest
War and Human Nature
Revisiting a 1946 pamphlet (and the role of pamphlets in educating adults) that helps explain the Jan. 6th insurrection
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Jason Forrest
‘Treatise’: A Visual Symphony Of Information Design
Why Cornelius Cardew’s legendary 193-page graphic score might not actually be about musicLike many fine art movements, the world of avant-garde music takes both an appreciation..
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