Posts Tagged: educational design

Simple pleasures in New England nature

For readers in the U.S., we hope you’re enjoying a wonderful spring so far, and finding time to get outdoors and enjoy the warmer weather. As you’re surely aware, April 22 is Earth Day, a perfect time to remind ourselves of the the many simple pleasures that nature has to offer, particularly here in New… Read more »


Thank you Charley Harper

Let this brief entry serve as a long overdue expression of my gratitude to Charley Harper for his work and the inspiration it has provided me over the years. I can recall hours spent as a child pouring over his illustrations in the “The Golden Book of Biology” (cover image below), experience that undoubtedly planted… Read more »


Information design for advocacy

Fellow Graphic Alliance member John Emerson recently shared a wonderful free resource, a PDF booklet entitled Visualizing Information for Advocacy: An Introduction to Information Design. The manual is intended to introduce advocacy organizations to basic principles and techniques of information design. It provides some excellent examples of designs from groups around the world in a… Read more »