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.

Confusion and clutter are failures of design, not attributes of information. And so the point is to find design strategies that reveal detail and complexity - rather than to fault the data for an excess of complication. Or, worse, to fault viewers for a lack of understanding.

The idea is that the content is the interface, the information is the interface, not computer-administrative debris.

Simple design, intense content.

A practical part of my teaching is to provide demonstrative, hands-on experiences.

The world is much more interesting than any one discipline.

Clutter is not a property of information. Clutter is a failure of design.