Category: Emotional Structures
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Data, empathy and illustration
Geo-Graphics by Regina Giménez (Levine Querido 2022) is a nonfiction picture book consisting of different kinds of shapes (and sizes) that all communicate mostly geographical data. The book shows us facts about the universe surrounding us: diameters of planets, sizes of continents, heights of mountains, length of rivers, ocean depths,…
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Manifesto, part 3: With data, we need pictures
In Manifesto’s part 1, I wanted to show how expository nonfiction can be a way to approach data visualization on a structural level, with an example of nonfiction illustration’s direct, straightforward way of communicating. In Manifesto’s part 2 I focused on the New Nonfiction Picturebook and added a numerical dimension…
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Picture this: What Illustrators do best
One of the first books Cathryn Mercier recommended for me upon arrival at the Simmons University and Center for the Study of Children’s Literature was “Picture This: How Pictures Work” by Molly Bang. It’s a charming and invigorating book, first published in 1991, and it is used in teaching at…
Illustrating Data 