Paul Kahn
Recent articles by Paul Kahn
Data storytelling in late Victorian London
Issue 101, Summer 2021
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
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
Sandra Rendgen’s The Minard System re-contextualises in book form for the first time the entire…
Information and emancipation
Issue 98, Spring 2019
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
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
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