There is no such thing as information overload, just bad design. If something is cluttered and/or confusing, fix your design.

My idea here is that, inasmuch as certain cognitive tasks and principles are tied to nature's laws, these tasks and principles are indifferent to language, culture, gender, or the particular mode of information that is provided.

Science and art have in common intense seeing, the wide-eyed observing that generates empirical information.

If your words or images are not on point, making them dance in color won't make them relevant.

Allowing artist-illustrators to control the design and content of statistical graphics is almost like allowing typographers to control the content, style, and editing of prose.

The speculative part of my work is that these particular cognitive tasks - ways of thinking analytically - are tied to nature's laws.

The goal is to provide analytical tools that will last students a lifetime