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Link: Graphic Link: In print, page 1 | page 2 Hurricane Sandy, like many natural disasters, caused people to worry about what nature could do in one’s hometown. Artist Maxwell and I worked on this graphic together. My role included finding and shaping the map data so we could import it into ArcMap. Max then controlled the way the layers appear to make the map more reader-friendly.Read More →

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Link: Graphic Link: In print As Hurricane Sandy was ravaging the eastern seaboard, the whole graphics team got together to brainstorm on visualizing the damage. We decided on showing: projected weather (to move the graphic forward), areas without power (illustrate damage), text notes (giving more detail on each state). I also worked on finding information on how Sandy compared to past hurricanes. There is no single way of comparing hurricanes, so I worked to find storms that are top in one category (most intense, most deadly and so on).Read More →

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Link: Graphic Link: In print Newspaper headlines leading up to the 2012 presidential election talked about the numerous voter ID laws being proposed and challenged across the states. Complicated stories such as these laws can often be excellent opportunities for guiding readers. With this focus page graphic, I started by researching voter ID laws before we drew up the page. Artist Scott Brown and I then collaborated on the page’s content and how we would present the information visually. We decided that the page must discuss why the laws were important to discuss, why the laws were enacted, why challenges were made and actual casesRead More →

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      Link, three strikes: Graphic | In print Link, death penalty: In print page 1 | In print page 2 In an age of high voter apathy, helping readers to understand ballot propositions in an important task. Here, I tackled the death penalty and three strikes proposals. For three strikes, we worked to visually explain the difference between the proposal and the current program. For death penalty, we worked to illustrate the process while also documenting the status of people who have been sentenced to death.            Read More →