Some of the commercial work I do is helping people to improve their presentations and add some design thinking. There are so many amazing things in science, and such great data, which can often be locked away. It's in the… — David Mccandless Copy Share Image
Simplification seems to be the removal of objects for the goal of making a graphic as clean and uncluttered as possible. Whereas, with optimization,… — David Mccandless Copy Share Image
I have a computational quality to my mind, I suppose. When I was a kid, I was obsessed with video games. I reprogrammed games,… — David Mccandless Copy Share Image
I started moving into online work, and that exposed me to design and the impact it has on the flow, shape, and narrative of… — David Mccandless Copy Share Image
Personally, I find visualisations great for helping me understand the world and for sifting the huge amounts of information that deluge me every day. — David McCandless Copy Share Image
For years I thought I was just a writer, but when I sat down to design and started playing around with it, I realized… — David Mccandless Copy Share Image
I love information. I want to stay current. I don't want to be under-informed. But I'm busy. Sometimes, I need an instant overview of… — David McCandless Copy Share Image
Information design has been around since the 1970s. Pioneers like Yale University design guru Edward Tufte and design agency Pentagram have long known and… — David McCandless Copy Share Image
I'm doing a lot of cognitive processing. I'm gathering research. I'm processing it. I'm arranging the data. I'm sorting out the narrative. I'm designing.… — David Mccandless Copy Share Image
Some of the commercial work I do is helping people to improve their presentations and add some design thinking. There are so many amazing… — David Mccandless Copy Share Image
Over the years, online, we've laid down a huge amount of information and data, and we irrigate it with networks and connectivity, and it's… — David McCandless Copy Share Image
I've been working on a graphic about carbon emissions. It's an incredibly simple graphic - a bunch of blocks and a table below it… — David Mccandless Copy Share Image
I remember researching a really complicated article and having trouble keeping track of all the different perspectives. I ended up drawing a diagram to… — David Mccandless Copy Share Image
The classic one for me is one of my favorite images - left-versus-right political-spectrum image. I was trying to visualize the concepts on the… — David Mccandless Copy Share Image
By visualizing information, we turn it into a landscape that you can explore with your eyes: a sort of information map. And when you're… — David McCandless Copy Share Image
