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I write mostly about old and rare information graphics, data visualizations and maps
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Walking through walls: interview with Paul Kahn (opens the original)
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This interview is the fourth of a series in which I interview people who write about, think about, or collect information graphics and dataviz.Information designer Paul Kahn is a mentor to many of us. I asked the great storyteller - in the context of his recently published book, Mapping Knowledge Across Time -, about his career, the history of information design, and his all time favourite historical pieces. <
The engineering blueprints of a Spanish genius (opens the original)
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There are things I don’t discover myself, yet they are so great or interesting that I have to reshare them. All the more so because I feel that the astonishing engineering drawings of the Spanish engineer, inventor and computer pioneer, Leonardo (nomen est omen!) Torres Quevedo (1852–1936) are known to very few people outside Spain—despite the fact on Google Arts & Culture there is a series of great online exhibitions dedicated to him and his work in collaboration with the Torres Quevedo Museum
A graphic method for social organisms (opens the original)
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One of the most heated sociological debates of the late 19th century centred on the ‘social organism theory’. Organicism was a defining and popular, now outdated, school of thought in early sociology, which likened society to a living organism (a biological entity). One of the most extreme and systematic proponents of this branch was the Russian sociologist and statesman of Baltic-German origin, Paul von Lilienfeld (1829–1903).<a class="button primary" href="https://attilabatorfy.substack.com/p/
The stunning atlases of the Soviet republics (opens the original)
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If the late 19th and early 20th centuries marked the first golden age of major national atlases, then the 1960s and 1970s can safely be described as the second golden age. It was at this time that numerous socialist countries – not without precedent – set about publishing their first truly large-scale, monumental national atlases, each weighing several kilograms (the Romanian atlas is said to have weighed 10 kilograms!). Czechoslovakia published its own new national atlas in 1966, Hungary in 196
A year of digging into our dataviz heritage (opens the original)
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I launched the Cabinet of Infographic Curiosities a year ago. I’d like to thank you all for the tremendous support, encouragement, and kind and inspiring comments I’ve received from you. Over the past year, I’ve gained enthusiastic followers and made new friends from all over the world. The blog has sparked numerous exchanges of correspondence and has been featured in many newsletters and round-ups – it even made it into The Guardian once! Thanks to the blog, I’ve been invited to take part in th
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