10 things I’ve changed my mind about To celebrate 10 years of Voilà:, here are 10 things I’ve changed my mind about since I started out as an information designer…. Read the complete story
Retrospective 2021 As bad as 2021 was at the global level, it has been good to Voilà:. As I reflect back, it is hard to believe… Read the complete story
How to get your design ideas through a client This article was originally published on Nightingale website. Read this article in French here or em portugues aqui. Clients are an easy target to… Read the complete story
How an infographic became an illustration The latest project in our portfolio shows how an infographic request can lead to many places. It started like most projects, with a report… Read the complete story
Interpreting the Do No Harm guide through a Canadian context for Truth and Reconciliation How do we approach and present data responsibly, with intention and purpose? The Do No Harm Guide for data visualization, published by Jon Schwabish… Read the complete story
Our first interactive: the masked dashboard In the coming months, we will finally be updating our portfolio to better reflect what Voilà: has become over the last couple of years…. Read the complete story
500,000 dots is too many The more I think about today’s front page of the New York Times, the more it is for me another watershed moment for data… Read the complete story
Retrospective 2020 The Holidays put me in a reflective mood. Or maybe it’s one month of John Lennon singing in my ears “So this is Christmas…. Read the complete story
How to tell the truth in charts A review of How Charts Lie, by Alberto Cairo Charts are never neutral; they are rhetorical devices. Their creators select the data, the framing, and… Read the complete story
The case against electoral maps If there is one type of visualization that the world has been looking at lately, it’s US electoral maps. Ever since Trump paraded his… Read the complete story
Food for the future: Advising students creating climate visualization One of our objectives at Voilà: is to promote information design, especially in Montreal. When data viz Prof Thomas Hurtut from Polytechnique Montréal offered… Read the complete story