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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Plate, c.1928 by Grete Marks (1899-1990), ceramic artist and a Bauhaus student #womensart

Plate in cream with thin black half circular lines and green circular motifs

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Attila Bátorfy @attilabatorfy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Today on Cabinet of Infographic Curiosities we present a long-forgotten graphic method: the Haeckel-inspired organic diagrams created by the Russian-German sociologist Paul von Lilienfeld to visualize social complexity. Read the full story here: attilabatorfy.substack.com/p/a-graphic-...

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Daniel Huffman @pinakographos.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

New on the blog: "GenAI for the Static Cartographer," in which I express my concerns about AI but then give ideas on how to use it, anyway. Features results both impressive and mediocre. somethingaboutmaps.wordpress.com/2026/09/08/g...

A GIS view of the coastline of maritime southeast Asia, overlaid with a varity of low-res polygons.

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Attila Bátorfy @attilabatorfy.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

New on Cabinet of Infographic Curiosities, this time a map from Algeria attilabatorfy.substack.com/p/seeds-leav...

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Seeds, leaves and fruits: visualizing Muslim brotherhoods

A beautiful map by the colonial head of Indigenous Affairs in Algeria from 1884.

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

“A Balloon-Prospect from Above the Clouds”, from Thomas Baldwin's Airopaidia (1786) — first image of a truly overhead aerial view (as actually experienced). More in @LilyRFord's essay exploring how balloon flight transformed our ideas of landscape: publicdomainreview.org/essay/f...

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Catherine D'Ignazio (she/her/ella) @kanarinka.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I'm so proud to have contributed to this transnational, feminist labor of love!

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Nadieh Bremer @nadiehbremer.com · 27/07/2026

To quote my past self ;) "This is probably my favorite book in terms of teaching you the best practices of data visualization. … No matter what you use to visualize your data with, this book is for you." Now available as a very affordable e-book 👇

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Michael Friendly @datavisfriendly.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

#TodayinHistory #dataviz #Onthisday #OTD 📊 🎂Jul 27, 1918 Jacques Bertin born in Maisons-Laffitte, France 🇫🇷 1967: Semiologie Graphique, 🥇1st comprehensive theory of graphical symbols and modes of graphics representation ➡️Inspiration for Grammar of Graphics, #rstats #ggplot

Table showing the various "retinal variables" of graphics -- position, size shape, orientation color -- in relation to their uses for points, lines, graphics

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NACIS @nacis.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

New in Cartographic Perspectives: Evangeline McGlynn and Will B. Payne discuss their Relational Reprojection Platform, used to create custom azimuthal reprojections of spatial datasets with non-linear distance transformations. Read their article below 👇️ buff.ly/4rWG6na

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Catherine D'Ignazio (she/her/ella) @kanarinka.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

The MIT Data + Feminism Lab is hiring a one year postdoc! We are working with Andrea Parker (GA Tech) and Brooke Foucault-Welles (Northeastern) on a project related to youth as co-designers of civic technologies to support neighborhood community wellness. careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/cl...

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Postdoctoral Associate

MIT - Postdoctoral Associate - Cambridge MA 02139

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RJ Andrews @infowetrust.com · 08/06/2026

All four FUTURE BOOKS, featuring classic Isotype information graphics, are live at isotype.infowetrust.com — now 153 total figures sortable by dimensions I care about.

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John Krygier | Making Maps book @poponthebeezer.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Making Maps Substack: Map Pins as CartoSkeuomorphs: makingmaps.substack.com/p/map-pins-a...

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Attila Bátorfy @attilabatorfy.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

These are my absolute favourites.

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David Hugh-Jones @hughjonesd.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Redoing some ggplot2 examples. Car mpg with geom_smooth() and "classic/pencil".

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Attila Bátorfy @attilabatorfy.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

An absolute rare infographic gem has arrived today! Les trusts contre la France, from 1937. The graphics were made by Hungarian communist journalist, later geographer György Markos. I wrote an article about him in Nightingale a couple of years ago nightingaledvs.com/gyorgy-marko...

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Alberto Cairo @albertocairo.com · 26/05/2026

BIG NEWS in the Open Visualization Academy: openvisualizationacademy.beehiiv.com/p/data-femin... We're launching 'Data Feminism for Data Visualization' by @laurenfklein.bsky.social and @kanarinka.bsky.social #dataViz #infographics #dataVisualization #dataJournalism

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Data Feminism for Data Visualization

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Attila Bátorfy @attilabatorfy.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Here it is. There are so many important insights in this interview. Thank you for the opportunity, Lauren! @laurenfklein.bsky.social

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Telling new stories about history: interview with Lauren Klein

The Curious Cabinet #3.

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Attila Bátorfy @attilabatorfy.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Botanist John Ernst Weaver's illustrations on plant root systems. attilabatorfy.substack.com/p/roots

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Attila Bátorfy @attilabatorfy.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Did you know? Part of Bertin’s cartographic and graphic work is digitized and available online at Gallica! gallica.bnf.fr/services/eng...

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Daniel Huffman @pinakographos.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

The Alliance of Freelance Cartographers needs your help! By taking our short annual survey, you strengthen your #cartography community. This survey is for anyone (globally) who did any amount of freelance mapping last year (even a little). forms.gle/Em7sULniXUMv... Please help spread this widely!

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Dr. Dominic Royé @drxeo.eu · 19/03/2026

Today I’m excited to finally start a project I’ve been wanting to launch for a long time: Color for #Geoscience. 🎨🌍 ℹ️ to build an open, community‑driven collection of palettes 📄 Contribution: github.com/dominicroye/... 🌐 APP dominicroye.github.io/color-for-ge... #ScientificVisualization #dataviz

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Daniel Huffman @pinakographos.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Back to my long-running project of upgrading the style on my old river maps from the ca. 2010 style (for a book I never printed) to the more colorful poster style I've been using since about 2020. somethingaboutmaps.wordpress.com/river-maps/

A stylized map of North American rivers. Everything is constructed of 45° angles, like a classic transit map. The background is a series of pale greens denoting each country. The rivers are dark blue and highly simplified, with tick marks indicating where cities are along the rivers.

A stylized map of North American rivers. Everything is constructed of 45° angles, like a classic transit map. The background is a series of greens, pinks, and yellows denoting different colors. The rivers are dark blue and highly simplified, with tick marks indicating where cities are along the rivers. Versus the original, this one is more colorful and the text is a clearer and cleaner and in a different typeface.

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toMake @tomake.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

'The Song Beneath is Always Singing' Limited edition map; stone lithograph, relief, chine-collé #aRealPlace #SanAndreasFault #Song #BlueSkyArt #toMake #StoneLithograph #map #California

Limited edition map of the San Andreas fault in the San Francisco Bay area.

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John Krygier | Making Maps book @poponthebeezer.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

New post at Making Maps Substack: makingmaps.substack.com/p/on-critica...

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John Krygier | Making Maps book @poponthebeezer.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

"Argumentative Analytical Drawing" - teaching architecture students to construct an argument that becomes the generator of design decisions. Mappy stuff! Shortened link: tinyurl.com/2vzmc3kn

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John Krygier | Making Maps book @poponthebeezer.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

New article on Making Maps substack (makingmaps.substack.com)

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