Paul Kahn

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Data storytelling in late Victorian London

Issue 101, Summer 2021

Review

The design community is currently fascinated by data storytelling. Everyone wants to design visual tales…

The pandemic that launched a thousand visualisations

Issue 101, Summer 2021

Feature

Covid-19 has generated a growth in information design and an opportunity to compare different ways of visualising the impact of this deadly virus. By Paul Kahn

Minard’s retirement plans

Issue 98, Spring 2019

Review

Sandra Rendgen’s The Minard System re-contextualises in book form for the first time the entire…

Information and emancipation

Issue 98, Spring 2019

Review

This book brings to light an audacious moment in the long career of civil rights…

Visual systems of life and death

Issue 101, Summer 2021

Feature

In this appendix to ‘The pandemic that launched a thousand visualisations’, Paul Kahn outlines more of the dynamic visual systems that help our understanding of Covid-19

Recent blog posts about Paul Kahn

Books received #53

18 April 2023
Book design, Design education, Graphic design, Information design, Posters, Typography

Big Type; the nature of data; match boxes from Singapore; and posters by Niklaus Troxler
In our latest edition of books received, we look at titles featuring typographically driven graphic design…

Covid visualisations: 2023 update

6 February 2023
Design history, Information design, Motion graphics

Paul Kahn reflects upon the way Covid-19 data visualisations and reporting have changed over the past three years

In 2021, when ‘The pandemic that launched a thousand visualisations’ was published in Eye 101, there were hundreds of visualisations per week