These are the dataviz projects that I take on just for fun!
This is a selection of visuals that I made during my PhD—figures for papers, figures for communication to the public, sketches & illustrations, etc.
These data visualizations were made as part of Sports Viz Sunday, a monthly data visualization challenge run by Simon Beaumont.
At conferences during grad school I loved taking “sketchnotes“, or notes filled out with sketches and diagrams related to the speaker’s presentation. These sketchnotes were taken during the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, my go-to conference during graduate school.
In July 2019, I took part in an Instagram lettering challenge hosted in honor of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission to the Moon. I had a great time with the prompts and the first image on this page, a quote from astronaut Gene Cernan, is one of my favorite lettering pieces that I’ve ever made.
After years of wishing for one, in 2022 I finally got a pen plotter! It’s an AxiDraw V3 and has a plotting area of 8.5” x 11”. I’ve had such a fun time playing with form and color, and listening to the little robot noises it makes when it’s plotting.
In 2018 I made it a personal challenge to letter each of the (at the time) 147 named moons in the solar system, which I completed over five months. These images are a selection of my pieces for this challenge; the complete set can be found on my Instagram page.
I’ve always gotten a kick out of the jokey session titles at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, so in 2020 I took it upon myself to make some title cards for my favorite session names.
In 2019 I participated in a planetary-science-specific version of Inktober on Twitter. All my pieces were made digitally, but I think it still counts for “ink”tober!
This series of works is the combination of two of my favorite things: planetary science and the flourishes that I learned from ep_lettering.
Not all my artwork has a digital component! This series was me going back to basics and practicing my brush pen calligraphy.
