Category Archives: Recent Work

Climate Change Communication & the IPCC

Climate Change Communication & the IPCC

It has been a while, but I am pleased to say that an essay that I contributed to (Climate change communications and the IPCC) along with a few colleagues at the IPCC, has just been published in the Journal Climate Change. One of a series of papers and essays looking at science communication – Climate Change Communication and the IPCC.  A really important subject…

From the abstract…
‘In its Sixth Assessment Report Cycle (AR6), the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) aims to strengthen the communication of its products. As the only mandatory part of IPCC reports specifically targeting a lay audience, the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) provide an opportunity for broader communication of key IPCC topics…

…we find that bringing together IPCC authors and communication specialists to jointly develop the text and graphics increases the accessibility and usefulness of the FAQs…

…we recommend involving communication experts from the beginning of the drafting process to share responsibility, which requires sufficient resources to be allocated to the FAQs…

Enjoy reading along with the other papers and essays all looking at science communication. The report and all 32 FAQ graphics is here…

Many thanks to Sarah Connors, Sophie Berger, Malissa Walsh, Ros Pidcock and Maike Nicolai for putting up with all my questions and queries when producing the FAQs for the report.

14 March 2022

New report and graphic with Greenpeace science unit

A new report from Greenpeace science unit was launched recently looking at how a rusting oil tanker, the FSO Safer, could end up triggering a major environmental and humanitarian disaster in and around the Red Sea.

I produced the infographics in collaboration with Greenpeace and Kathryn Millar, an environmental researcher. You can find the report here…

…and here are the graphics…

Safe and Effective Medicines for Use in Pregnancy

Some recent work, working with Shaoni Bhattacharya and the medical experts at Birmingham Health Partners Centre for Regulatory Science and Innovation. Looking at medicines in pregnancy. 

the report is here to download in pdf format:

and here are some of the graphics produced for the report.

A timely and fascinating report to work on.

Thank you to all involved.

21 January 2021

Icon design

A couple of before and after for icons that I worked on for ‘The Good Ancestor: How to think long term in a short-term world’ by Roman Krznaric, launched this week.

Showing the ideas that were sketched out after discussions and brainstorming between Roman and myself.

icons for tog of war graphic showing long term and short-term thoughts

final icons for tug of war graphic

icon sketches for deep democracy

final graphic icons for deep democracy graphic

Always good to see how things develop and finalise at the final stage. More to come…

25 July 2020

The Sketching Process

My latest infographic for Scientific American has been released and this month they are making the issue free to read. Go to https://lnkd.in/gVMCHtz to see my graphic looking at Planet Hunting. Always a pleasure to work with Jen Christiansen and Meredith MacGregor.

This month I thought I would share the video of the sketching process I went through after I had read the copy, re-read the copy, doodled and taken notes,  finally asking many questions to Jen and Meredith. At that stage I was pretty certain about what we were all trying to achieve in the graphic.

The graphic and video are below. These show my sketching process and build up to the ‘final sketch before committing to the final drawing completed in Illustrator.

03 June 2020

The drug market during the Covid-19 pandemic

New report with EMCDDA and Europol

Last week the EMCDDA and Europol published their latest report on the impact Covid-19 is having on the drug markets. I worked with the agencies on the graphics side of the report. Click on the report cover to download it but here are a couple of the graphics in preview.


03 June 2020

Graphics for upcoming book

Work update…

The past few weeks I have been producing graphics with Roman Krznaric for his forthcoming book The Good Ancestor: How to Think Long-Term in a Short-Term World  It will be published by Penguin in June, but I will keep you updated with its progress. A fascinating and a great read, especially in these times.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

More updates to come later, in the meantime stay safe, stay home and stay healthy.

From sketch to infographic

I always sketch my ideas to help me to understand the subject matter, to come up with concepts and ideas for the visuals, and to be able to look back and see what my thoughts and ideas were. Here are a few from a recent commission from Scientific American, published in the November 2018 issue on the subject of gravitational lensing.

     

 

  

 

18 December 2018

Flourish

I have been using Flourish.app for a few weeks now and thought I should showcase some of the chart types it has and what you can do with it using a small data set from the NHS, looking at hospital admissions from drug use.

Same data just different ways of using it and showing what is going on using the stories format.

Source: https://digital.nhs.uk/catalogue/PUB30210

Recent work

Lots more recent work over on my blog
But here are a couple of things I have had published lately

These are my latest for BBC Future Now looking at methane gas

BBC FutureNow

BBC FutureNow -Methane gas reserves

This from Anthropocene magazine looking at forest land area and carbon emissions

New report by EMCDDA and EUROPOL
“Drugs and the darknet”. The report presents how darknet markets function, the threats they pose to health and security and how Europe can respond.

BBC Storyworks and JaguarUSA Jaguar

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

After a while not being able to show anything, I have a couple of graphics that have recently been published.

These from the latest issue of BTO news

and this from BBC Earth (click the image for a large! version

 

thanks for looking and more to come soon