RJ Andrews
@infowetrust.com
Obsessed with data graphics. I design high‑stakes charts.
Founder, Visionary Press • CHARTOGRAPHY weekly
Talks • workshops • consulting → infowetrust.com
Founder, Visionary Press • CHARTOGRAPHY weekly
Talks • workshops • consulting → infowetrust.com
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RJ Andrews
@infowetrust.com
· Nov 25
Maps for Kids
Celebrate information graphics!
visionarypress.com
Almost anything can be treated as a map. Projections, charts, and diagrams are all ways of flattening the world so we can understand.
But the real magic happens when we enjoy those maps together. MAPS FOR KIDS is here! Let's meet our three maps: visionarypress.com/pages/maps-f...
But the real magic happens when we enjoy those maps together. MAPS FOR KIDS is here! Let's meet our three maps: visionarypress.com/pages/maps-f...
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Finland gets the “ways to divide a country” treatment.
October 2, 2026 at 5:27 PM
Finland gets the “ways to divide a country” treatment.
Snuck a short history of floating bar charts into this blogpost.
I did not know that McKinsey is responsible for "waterfall" charts before writing this! Thank you @jasonforrest.bsky.social for the tips. dbtcharts.com/blog/you-ask...
I did not know that McKinsey is responsible for "waterfall" charts before writing this! Thank you @jasonforrest.bsky.social for the tips. dbtcharts.com/blog/you-ask...
You asked for a waterfall · dbt Charts
Two weeks later, dbt Charts 0.9.0 can draw one.
dbtcharts.com
October 1, 2026 at 10:04 PM
Snuck a short history of floating bar charts into this blogpost.
I did not know that McKinsey is responsible for "waterfall" charts before writing this! Thank you @jasonforrest.bsky.social for the tips. dbtcharts.com/blog/you-ask...
I did not know that McKinsey is responsible for "waterfall" charts before writing this! Thank you @jasonforrest.bsky.social for the tips. dbtcharts.com/blog/you-ask...
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ImPRESSed Yet?
I am thrilled to announce that Impressive Textiles: Premodern Printing on Fabric
will be published October 27 in print and Open Access with @acmrs.bsky.social,
thanks to 30 textile and print scholars, and 1 groundbreaking exhibition
@newberrylibrary.bsky.social!
#CoverReveal
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I am thrilled to announce that Impressive Textiles: Premodern Printing on Fabric
will be published October 27 in print and Open Access with @acmrs.bsky.social,
thanks to 30 textile and print scholars, and 1 groundbreaking exhibition
@newberrylibrary.bsky.social!
#CoverReveal
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September 29, 2026 at 12:25 PM
ImPRESSed Yet?
I am thrilled to announce that Impressive Textiles: Premodern Printing on Fabric
will be published October 27 in print and Open Access with @acmrs.bsky.social,
thanks to 30 textile and print scholars, and 1 groundbreaking exhibition
@newberrylibrary.bsky.social!
#CoverReveal
1/5
I am thrilled to announce that Impressive Textiles: Premodern Printing on Fabric
will be published October 27 in print and Open Access with @acmrs.bsky.social,
thanks to 30 textile and print scholars, and 1 groundbreaking exhibition
@newberrylibrary.bsky.social!
#CoverReveal
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Abolition Teapot by Josiah Wedgwood & Sons, c. 1760 www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/s...
September 30, 2026 at 1:32 AM
Abolition Teapot by Josiah Wedgwood & Sons, c. 1760 www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/s...
color vibes archive.org/details/bits...
September 29, 2026 at 4:37 AM
color vibes archive.org/details/bits...
The cat burned down the house cooking milky porridge. Кошкин дом. The Cat’s House. 1937. Soviet-era children’s book. Illustration by Alisa Poret. catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9912... via nemfrog
September 29, 2026 at 4:09 AM
The cat burned down the house cooking milky porridge. Кошкин дом. The Cat’s House. 1937. Soviet-era children’s book. Illustration by Alisa Poret. catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9912... via nemfrog
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New Movablebooks.info post delving into the behind-the-scenes making of a movable item from @infowetrust.com dedicated to architecture and cartography!
“We wanted a staircase that could disappear”
Source: Chartography.net Head over to the post “A World of Maps, Folded Flat” at graphic designer and information theorist RJ Andrews’ Chartography.net for the behind-the-scenes t…
movablebooks.info
September 26, 2026 at 7:44 PM
New Movablebooks.info post delving into the behind-the-scenes making of a movable item from @infowetrust.com dedicated to architecture and cartography!
I found a reasonable real-life "Pie Chart of Mars" in Deutscher Landwirtschaftsatlas (1934) www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet...
September 25, 2026 at 7:32 PM
I found a reasonable real-life "Pie Chart of Mars" in Deutscher Landwirtschaftsatlas (1934) www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet...
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'You'll choke too' - I wanted to reshare my wildfire aerial embroidery now summer is finally over as it really meant a lot to me. Autumn is here but as the fruit ripened much earlier than normal, I worry the little birds and animals won't have enough for the winter...
September 25, 2026 at 6:19 PM
'You'll choke too' - I wanted to reshare my wildfire aerial embroidery now summer is finally over as it really meant a lot to me. Autumn is here but as the fruit ripened much earlier than normal, I worry the little birds and animals won't have enough for the winter...
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My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com
June 13, 2026 at 2:57 PM
My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com
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Ron Cobb’s original signage designs for Alien, made with felt tip pen and graph paper. humanoidhistory.tumblr.com/post/8286472...
September 24, 2026 at 3:07 PM
Ron Cobb’s original signage designs for Alien, made with felt tip pen and graph paper. humanoidhistory.tumblr.com/post/8286472...
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I'll wrap this thread as it's moved in many directions beyond panel breaking weirdness and into general comics space/time cool-ness, but good to close with something from Fred - from the Philemon books (annoyingly still not in English - though I bought this one in Paris) - these are such a treat!
September 24, 2026 at 8:54 PM
I'll wrap this thread as it's moved in many directions beyond panel breaking weirdness and into general comics space/time cool-ness, but good to close with something from Fred - from the Philemon books (annoyingly still not in English - though I bought this one in Paris) - these are such a treat!
hosting office hours tomorrow to chat dbt Charts, new open-source language for dashboards luma.com/7bgs08zm?tk=...
dbt Charts Office Hours with RJ Andrews and Tracy Chow · Luma
The Chartographers are in!
Join RJ Andrews and Tracy Chow from the dbt Charts team for an open office hours session all about dbt Charts.
Whether you’re…
luma.com
September 24, 2026 at 9:25 PM
hosting office hours tomorrow to chat dbt Charts, new open-source language for dashboards luma.com/7bgs08zm?tk=...
I made a pop-up!
We wanted a staircase that could disappear. It needed four walls, rigid steps, and room for extravagant maps. Then it had to collapse flat and ship in an envelope.
My latest for Chartography: www.chartography.net/p/a-world-of...
My latest for Chartography: www.chartography.net/p/a-world-of...
A World of Maps, Folded Flat
Turning the David Rumsey Map Center’s spectacular stairwell into a pop-up book.
www.chartography.net
September 24, 2026 at 5:29 PM
I made a pop-up!
We wanted a staircase that could disappear. It needed four walls, rigid steps, and room for extravagant maps. Then it had to collapse flat and ship in an envelope.
My latest for Chartography: www.chartography.net/p/a-world-of...
My latest for Chartography: www.chartography.net/p/a-world-of...
A World of Maps, Folded Flat
Turning the David Rumsey Map Center’s spectacular stairwell into a pop-up book.
www.chartography.net
September 24, 2026 at 4:30 PM
We wanted a staircase that could disappear. It needed four walls, rigid steps, and room for extravagant maps. Then it had to collapse flat and ship in an envelope.
My latest for Chartography: www.chartography.net/p/a-world-of...
My latest for Chartography: www.chartography.net/p/a-world-of...
New chartography.net soon. Maybe today. Good to be back.
September 23, 2026 at 3:12 PM
New chartography.net soon. Maybe today. Good to be back.
Olivetti!
There are four more titles in the Creative Papers series and all are available for preorder now: letterformarchive.org/shop/categor...
#Posters #Prints #GiftWrap #Lettering #Typography #Patterns #GraphicDesign #Olivetti #Emigre #WoodType #GrammarOfOrnament
#Posters #Prints #GiftWrap #Lettering #Typography #Patterns #GraphicDesign #Olivetti #Emigre #WoodType #GrammarOfOrnament
September 21, 2026 at 10:23 PM
Olivetti!
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I've just done the largest update to the #dataviz starter pack, with 30 accounts (20%) replaced. It means it will generate more content now. Might be worth re-clicking.
Sadly, gender imbalance got worse. I saved 5 spots for women-run accounts. Send suggestions, including yourself! Replies or DMs.
Sadly, gender imbalance got worse. I saved 5 spots for women-run accounts. Send suggestions, including yourself! Replies or DMs.
September 10, 2026 at 10:58 AM
I've just done the largest update to the #dataviz starter pack, with 30 accounts (20%) replaced. It means it will generate more content now. Might be worth re-clicking.
Sadly, gender imbalance got worse. I saved 5 spots for women-run accounts. Send suggestions, including yourself! Replies or DMs.
Sadly, gender imbalance got worse. I saved 5 spots for women-run accounts. Send suggestions, including yourself! Replies or DMs.
Distribution of the black spruce in North America. The distribution of important forest trees (1938). archive.org/details/dist...
September 20, 2026 at 2:54 PM
Distribution of the black spruce in North America. The distribution of important forest trees (1938). archive.org/details/dist...
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Here’s the best view of an aurora I’ve ever seen (and that includes watching a solar storm from a Fairbanks snow bank).
September 17, 2026 at 11:25 PM
Here’s the best view of an aurora I’ve ever seen (and that includes watching a solar storm from a Fairbanks snow bank).
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Innovation is the open-source language, which you can think of as markdown for dashboards.
* one simple file with queries/charts/layout that you own, can live in git next to rest of your data stack
* format can be used with AI to get what you want in a much cleaner fashion
👀 dbtcharts.com/language/
* one simple file with queries/charts/layout that you own, can live in git next to rest of your data stack
* format can be used with AI to get what you want in a much cleaner fashion
👀 dbtcharts.com/language/
September 18, 2026 at 5:43 PM
Innovation is the open-source language, which you can think of as markdown for dashboards.
* one simple file with queries/charts/layout that you own, can live in git next to rest of your data stack
* format can be used with AI to get what you want in a much cleaner fashion
👀 dbtcharts.com/language/
* one simple file with queries/charts/layout that you own, can live in git next to rest of your data stack
* format can be used with AI to get what you want in a much cleaner fashion
👀 dbtcharts.com/language/
My enthusiasm for charts as a craft (and frustration with digital chart slop) motivated how I shaped dbt Charts visual system.
New design essay showing how it works: dbtcharts.com/blog/charts-...
New design essay showing how it works: dbtcharts.com/blog/charts-...
September 17, 2026 at 4:10 PM
My enthusiasm for charts as a craft (and frustration with digital chart slop) motivated how I shaped dbt Charts visual system.
New design essay showing how it works: dbtcharts.com/blog/charts-...
New design essay showing how it works: dbtcharts.com/blog/charts-...
We are open-sourcing dbt Charts: a clear language for describing and rendering dashboards from a single YAML file. It makes smarter, prettier dashboards that you own, all while saving you tokens. 📈 dbtCharts.com
September 15, 2026 at 5:10 PM
We are open-sourcing dbt Charts: a clear language for describing and rendering dashboards from a single YAML file. It makes smarter, prettier dashboards that you own, all while saving you tokens. 📈 dbtCharts.com
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Today on Cabinet of Infographic Curiosities we present a long-forgotten graphic method: the Haeckel-inspired organic diagrams created by the Russian-German sociologist Paul von Lilienfeld to visualize social complexity. Read the full story here: attilabatorfy.substack.com/p/a-graphic-...
September 14, 2026 at 3:14 PM
Today on Cabinet of Infographic Curiosities we present a long-forgotten graphic method: the Haeckel-inspired organic diagrams created by the Russian-German sociologist Paul von Lilienfeld to visualize social complexity. Read the full story here: attilabatorfy.substack.com/p/a-graphic-...
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they are upon us
September 9, 2026 at 6:14 PM
they are upon us