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Chart Designer Nigel Holmes first surveyed the distinctive shapes of America through the window of a Greyhound bus. Having completed his M.A. in illustration at London's Royal College of Art in 1966, British-born Holmes was embarked on a 99-days-for-$99 visual tour of the U.S...
Holmes begins a project by looking at the numbers. In this week's issue, a TIME-commissioned Yankelovich poll provided him with the raw data for charts that were to accompany a Nation story on U.S. foreign policy and the presidential race. Reporter-Researchers Noel McCoy and Deborah Wells...
The challenge, says Holmes, is "to present statistics as a visual idea rather than a tedious parade of numbers. Without being frivolous, I want to entertain the reader as well as inform him." In some cases, the very curves of plotted statistics suggest an image. Thus the lines on this...
"A straw hat with a striped band may mean campaigning in the U.S., but in England it's boating on a river." Ideas may come from unlikely sources. One of his son's comic books inspired the drawings for a Science story on black holes in September 1978...
Naked Lunch exploded like a lanced boil on the American literary scene in 1959. The novel, a farrago of discontinuous fragments, takes the reader on a graphic tour of the hellish interstices of a junkie's mind, the fantasies of castration and necrophilia and technology gone amok. The updated Gothicism...