Frontrunner MAPS FOR KIDS poster topics

RJ's Vulnerable Voyage Part 3

Welcome to Chartography.net — insights and delights from the world of data storytelling.

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Two announcements

How is lettering used to create meaning in data graphics?

In two weeks, I am giving an online lecture with Letterform Archive spotlighting type flourishes in data visualization.

For example, see how the horizontal axis labels change from tsarist-black to communist-red in this 1939 line graph from Moscow charting coal production (on a fabulous black background):

Please sign-up so that Letterform sees demand for programming related to information graphics. Online, Tuesday October 29th at 12 noon Pacific, free!

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Rush copies of Info We Trust arrived to me last week.

Reserve yours directly from Visionary Press.

The book feels fantastic: it’s light and fluffy in your hand in the best of ways. The inside inks are absolutely electric. Designer Lorenzo and I are very pleased. Next I am waiting to hear that pallets of books are on their way too.

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Frontrunner topics

How many products does one need to launch a new web store? Less obtusely: How many posters must I design before launching my new poster imprint, Maps for Kids?

I think the minimum is six posters. But twenty would be better.

Eventually, I can imagine posters covering a hundred different topics. But where to begin? Today I want to tell you about my big list of topic ideas

But first, I’m spilling my guts—getting personal and showing my secrets. It is too sensitive to share completely in public, so the rest of this edition is for paying subscribers.