Fry’s Frankenfont project painstakingly recreates the text of Mary Shelley’s classic book with parts of incomplete fonts found on the Internet. Here’s how they did it: For each of the 5,483 unique ...

Ben Fry, g.m. of UALR Public Radio in Little Rock, Ark., died unexpectedly in his sleep Thursday, according to the station. He was 54. Fry had worked at KUAR and KLRE since 1988, starting as the news ...

The information designer is a relatively new figure on the cultural landscape. The field—devoted to the sophisticated display of data, and the idea that visuals can often tell stories more efficiently ...

Nike FuelBand is giving its 1 million users individual activity portraits for last year, courtesy of a data viz from Fathom Information Design. For all the insight available from self-quantification ...

Ben Fry, 26, beloved child of my heart has earned his wings after years of health issues. Ben was smart, funny, sarcastic and an unapologetic free thinker. His own struggles with his health gave him ...