A new semester at the School of Visual Arts. First week’s exercise: fix an ‘infamous’ BBC’s chart about train fare increases. Some of their attempts.

The final project of last semester’s Information Design class was a story about one’s block. Katya Fialkova took an activist journalist approach. Since I thought that her process, her challenges, her insight and her result were so interesting, I asked her to write a making-of post of her project. Here’s her account.

As it happens, last September I started teaching Information Design at the School of Visual Arts. The Moon was in the seventh house and Jupiter had aligned with Mars.

An interactive experiment based on what I should have done for a story on the redesign of the pinnacle of 1 World Trade Center.

Behind the scenes of the NYT’s conductor project: using motion capture to visualize the hidden nuances of conducting.

Elections are over. The graphics are set. The interactives forgotten for the latest cute kitten video, or the newest, silliest app. The print maps that wrapped the fish a couple of days later, have probably been recycled into your coffee cup.

Yet I had to do it. I had to revisit the elections.

The New York Times has been building interactives with audio-visual explanations for a while. But none of them are quite like How Mariano Rivera Dominates Hitters, which accompanied a Times magazine profile of the Yankees closer last month.

Last Wednesday, I tweeted about a terrible graphic published by El País (Spain). I said it was an example of bad visual metaphors and demeaning of data. Well… it actually does more than that. It lies.

It’s World AIDS day. Last week, UNAIDS published their latest data on people living with HIV. And I felt compelled to try a more realistic view of the world: a cartogram.