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Informational Healthcare Booklets
Cover for informational booklet about XXY genetic condition Cover for informational booklet about Trisomy X Cover for informational booklet about genetic condition XXY, or Klinefelter syndrome Interior...
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North Shore Book to be published in 2015
Map of northeastern Minnesota incorporating GIS relief and vegetation information. © University of Minnesota Press. I’ve created maps and graphs for a lengthy and lavishly illustrated book about the...
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How a cartographer changed our understanding of geology
Image credit:WORLD OCEAN FLOOR PANORAMA, BRUCE C. HEEZEN AND MARIE THARP, 1977. COPYRIGHT BY MARIE THARP 1977/2003. REPRODUCED BY PERMISSION OF MARIE THARP MAPS, LLC 8 EDWARD STREET, SPARKILL, NEW...
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Pen and Ink Throwback
When a client recently asked about someone to do some botanical illustrations, it occurred to me that I used to do all kinds of pen and ink illustrations. In fact, the parrot here was part of my first...
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PowerPoints
In the last couple of years I’ve been asked to create content for PowerPoint presentations as ancillaries to textbooks for Pharmacy Techs. For this project I gleaned primary points from the text and...
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Upcoming event: New York reading of Looking for Old Xi’an
Upcoming event: November 16, 2018, 6 pm, at Manhattan Chinatown’s Aeon Bookstore 151 East Broadway, NY, NY 10002. https://www.facebook.com/events/769561453403753/ I’ll be reading my piece, “Looking for...
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Airplane View: Love letter to life around the 45th parallel
I contend that when it comes to map reading and navigating, there are two types of people: “tube” people and “airplane” people. Tube people navigate by the landmarks they see as they drive along,...
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A little company history
My original Parrot Graphics logo For years I worked under the name Parrot Graphics. I started my company in the 1980s when a cheeky computer company took the name Apple. I figured I could use a...
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Map Design Post #1
Many of these map design tutorials date from several years ago, but the lessons are still relevant. I’m starting with some examples of maps in publications that you could get at the bookstore or...
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Why Include Maps, Charts, and Graphs?
Maps, charts, graphs, diagrams, and similar technical art enhance the content by: • Presenting content in a visual way—“A picture is worth a thousand words” Detail from water resources infographic •...
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