Public works and engineering are heavily science based, and one goal of mine is to reveal more of the artistry and creativity that goes into public works projects. On a recent trip I picked up a copy of Edward Tufte's "The Visual Display of Quantitative Information." The writing is dense but I tore through the book in…
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The United States swings back and forth every generation from being a large federal bureaucracy (Hamiltonian) to a decentralized (Jeffersonian) model. (Stay awake and I promise I'll get around to talking about art.) There are merits for both models but it's during those Hamiltonian periods that we as a country do REALLY COOL THINGS like go…
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I don't work in graphic design a lot, but experiment with it occasionally as a way to add more tools to my communications toolbox. I created this infographic to communicate the effectiveness of tracking sex offenders by gps. Recent stories are questioning the effectiveness of GPS monitoring devices to track convicted sex offenders. A Los…
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Lael Wageneck 