The point of the essay is to change things.

I was writing a chapter of Beautiful Evidence on the subject of the sculptural pedestal, which led to my thinking about what's up on the pedestal - the great leader.

We've drifted into this presentation mode without realizing the cost to the content and the audience in the process.

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.

Clutter is not an attribute of information, clutter is a failure of design...fix the design rather than stripping all the detail out of the map.

An open mind but not an empty head.