Chartography

Charts Follow Chaos

How information design rescued the railway from fiery catastrophe.

Nov 12

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4

October 2025

Beyond Superficial Histories

An interview by Attila Bátorfy.

Oct 28 • 

RJ Andrews

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Attila Bátorfy

6

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Human-Centered Workflow for Hundreds of Icons

A handmade system for colorful Isotype-style pictographs.

Oct 16 • 

RJ Andrews

8

1

Color Engineering

The tool that snaps mercurial design into mechanical focus.

Oct 2 • 

RJ Andrews

13

4

September 2025

Clarity Unbound

Restoring Radiance to Information Design

Sep 17 • 

RJ Andrews

10

1

3

"Factual Phenomena"

Georg von Mayr's 1877 statistical lines, rectangles, circles, and triangles.

Sep 3 • 

RJ Andrews

7

1

August 2025

"An Appeal to the Eye"

William Playfair's 1801 chart offensive.

Aug 5 • 

RJ Andrews

7

2

July 2025

"My Maps Speak"

Minard's reflections on his useful idea, part 2.

Jul 29 • 

RJ Andrews

9

2

"Illustration Invades Everything"

Minard on his useful idea, part 1.

Jul 22 • 

RJ Andrews

12

1

5

"A Saner and Richer Civilization"

Karl G. Karsten's 1923 prophetic hopes.

Jul 15 • 

RJ Andrews

8

2

"The Eyes of History"

DuBourg hijacks the tools of cartography to visualize time.

Jul 8 • 

RJ Andrews

16

2

4

"Completely New Perspectives—More Eloquent and Richer than All Others"

Physicist Felix Auerbach's 1914 introduction to graphic representation.

Jul 1 • 

RJ Andrews

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5

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