The Secret Language of Maps

Carissa Carter is a designer, a geoscientist, and the academic director at the Stanford d.school. She’s the author of The Secret Language of Maps: How to Tell Visual Stories with Data and teaches design courses on emerging technologies, climate change, and data visualization. Her work on designing with machine learning and blockchain has earned multiple design awards, including Fast Company Innovation and Core 77 awards.

The Hasso Plattner Institute of Design, known as the d.school, was founded at Stanford University in 2005. Each year, more than a thousand students from all disciplines attend classes, workshops, and programs to learn how the thinking behind design can enrich their own work and unlock their creative potential.

Jeremy Nguyen has been a regular contributing cartoonist to The New Yorker magazine since 2017. His illustrations have appeared in The Guardian, Time Out New York, and WIRED, and his work has been recognized by the Society ofIllustrators. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. Visit him online at jeremywinslife.com.