Topic

information design

A collection of 9 issues

On maps, storytelling, and us.

I love maps, for they are portraits of places. Maps of the Puget Sound, the Chesapeake Bay, the eastern shores of Maryland, the San Juan and Rocky Mountain National Forests, and the Four Corners region evoke memory and emotion at our house. Maps are reflections of who we are and

Letters from Paris: Flâneur as Voleur.

PARIS — Aggravated robberies are up more than 40 percent in the Paris public transport system, and the government places blame for the rise on the attractiveness of smartphones. See: Smartphones Lure Sticky Fingers in Paris The interior minister, Brice Hortefeux, calls it the “iPhone effect,” and the police talk of

On cowboy boots and good design.

There are two kinds of people in the world: those who wear cowboy boots and those who don’t. I grew up one who didn’t in the land of most who did. I hated cowboy boots and western wear growing up, but now that I’ve lived away from

On maps, storytelling, and us.

I love maps, for they are portraits of places. Maps of the Puget Sound, the Chesapeake Bay, the eastern shores of Maryland, the San Juan and Rocky Mountain National Forests, and the Four Corners region evoke memory and emotion at our house. Maps are reflections of who we are and

Letters from Paris: Flâneur as Voleur.

PARIS — Aggravated robberies are up more than 40 percent in the Paris public transport system, and the government places blame for the rise on the attractiveness of smartphones. See: Smartphones Lure Sticky Fingers in Paris The interior minister, Brice Hortefeux, calls it the “iPhone effect,” and the police talk of

On cowboy boots and good design.

There are two kinds of people in the world: those who wear cowboy boots and those who don’t. I grew up one who didn’t in the land of most who did. I hated cowboy boots and western wear growing up, but now that I’ve lived away from

On maps, storytelling, and us.

I love maps, for they are portraits of places. Maps of the Puget Sound, the Chesapeake Bay, the eastern shores of Maryland, the San Juan and Rocky Mountain National Forests, and the Four Corners region evoke memory and emotion at our house. Maps are reflections of who we are and

Letters from Paris: Flâneur as Voleur.

PARIS — Aggravated robberies are up more than 40 percent in the Paris public transport system, and the government places blame for the rise on the attractiveness of smartphones. See: Smartphones Lure Sticky Fingers in Paris The interior minister, Brice Hortefeux, calls it the “iPhone effect,” and the police talk of

On cowboy boots and good design.

There are two kinds of people in the world: those who wear cowboy boots and those who don’t. I grew up one who didn’t in the land of most who did. I hated cowboy boots and western wear growing up, but now that I’ve lived away from