Mapping Urban Mobility
A little background: in early 2012 I had the pleasure of chatting with Loup Cellard, Data Scientist and Digital Humanities researcher, at the time a contributor to the online magazine Strabic. Loup was interested in the evolution of urban cartography, at a time when the Attoma agency had just finalized the UX/UI design of the […]
Read more12 July 2024
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Hommage à Étapes : information as a service
“Graphic artists, typographers, designers, illustrators, photographers, or any other image-makers. You who have filled the pages of our 272 issues; you who have amazed us and passed on the passion of your professions; you who have read and supported us: Thank you.” These were the words used by editor-in-chief Caroline Bouige on August 3, 2023, […]
Read more12 July 2024
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Information design means making a difference legible
I had the good fortune and great pleasure of collaborating for many years with Groupe Chronos, founded in 1993 and headed until 2015 by sociologist Bruno Marzloff, an illustrious researcher, author and consultant in the fields of mobility and work transformation. With Bruno and his colleagues, including Laurence Sellincourt, Léa Marzloff and Julie Rieg, we […]
Read more11 May 2024
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Building the city experience
The concept of user experience doesn’t just apply to digital products and services. It is also relevant to the urban spaces in which we evolve on a daily basis, whether in terms of individual or collective experiences. To promote the disciplines of design to its audiences, Réseau Canopé* has created a web series entitled À […]
Read more10 May 2024
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Learning to doubt: design beyond beliefs
What’s really going on when we think we’re doing “design”? A question that is particularly relevant in today’s context. At a time when the urgent need for social and industrial transformations requires new ways of thinking and approaches, I believe we must also question the meaning behind our practices as designers. What is really going […]
Read more7 May 2024
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Attoma: simplifying complexity
Here we publish Christophe Chaptal’s interview with Giuseppe Attoma Pepe, published in issue 1242 of the Design Fax newsletter of June 17, 2022 and subsequently on the Admirable Design website. It’s also an opportunity to pay a heartfelt tribute to Jean-Charles Gaté, founder in 1995 of France’s only design newsletter, and to Christophe Chaptal, who […]
Read more16 February 2024
7min0
