#jonathan+corum

[jmuys]

[seespotbite]

[drewvigal]

Shan Carter, who does many of our interactives, sometimes speaks about designing for both Bart Simpson and Lisa Simpson. The Bart Simpsons of the world might want a quick fix, a quick overview of an interactive, and then walk away. But a Lisa Simpson might want to spend more time with the piece, and try to understand and explore it in more depth. This can be a helpful way of thinking about audience, especially for interactive pieces...

I just referenced Shan Carter and this line of thinking at the Q&A for ARC: An Evening of Animated Infographics.

The rest of this post and presentation is also extremely insightful and resourceful. Corum is one thoughtful guy. I especially like:

But the most important thing is to avoid being your own audience. You know too much about to the story.

[chartsnthings-blog]

My colleague Jonathan Corum writes about drawing sign language in last week's NYT. (Posing is Sergio Pecahna, another colleague.)

[sunfoundation]

A year of global cloud coverage

Jonathan Corum for the New York Times mapped cloud coverage from April 2011 to April 2012.