This interactive visualization toggles between two perspectives—changes in voter turnout from 2020 to 2024 and each state’s variance from the national average—transforming static election data into an engaging, dynamic experience.
America has low voter turnout, and the last general election was no exception. Only 64% of voter eligible Americans casted their ballots in 2024. This means that 90 million Americans who were eligible to vote didn’t show up to the polls. This two-page data visualization shows this drop state by state.
Announcing a new Adobe Illustrator tutorial series, beginning with how to make symbols and symbols libraries.
Building maps often requires multiple software applications. In fact, I cannot recall a map that I’ve made in the last decade that did not include using at least two different applications. For this map, I… Animated Flyover Map in ArcGIS Pro and Adobe After Effects
Last week marked Esri’s annual User Conference in San Diego, and what a conference it was! It’s always fun to see geospatial friends and meet new ones. Part of my time at this year’s gathering… Reimagining the John Snow Cholera Map with Animation
In a few quick steps, you can give a circle-shaped vector path a 3D-rendered appearance in Adobe Illustrator. I’m a cartographer – I make maps. So in the video posted below, I will use this… 3D Shading & Rendering in Illustrator: A Globe
High Alpine Semibold has an unapologetically high ascender with no accompanying adjustment to the x-height. The descender was kept rather short as well, allowing uppercase to maintain its towering command. For moments when you designers feel like reaching ultimate heights, I’ve added many alternative characters; uppercase crossbarred characters have alternatives with daringly high crossbars, and stemmed lowercase characters have longer-stemmed alternatives. Many further glyphs are included with this font to accommodate multiple languages.
By the time I publish this, I will have just finished presenting at the 40th annual North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS) conference. NACIS is a large community of map enthusiasts who meet once a… A Glimpse of the USPS Landscape with Maps
About the BellTopo Sans Font I designed the BellTopo Sans font, originally inspired by the typefaces on the antique U.S.G.S. maps of the late 1800s and early 1900s. To read more about the inspiration for… The Font is Ready! BellTopo Sans Fonts Design Complete
