Color has long had a deep connection to our emotions, which cuts through different cultures, time periods, and contexts, from textiles and architecture to design and art. Goethe was the first Western color theorist to suggest that colors have a direct effect on our physical and psychological wellbeing. Writing in his book, Theory of Colours, ...

The following recipe focuses on using data visceralization to engage very difficult data, with an emphasis on what feeling the data can do (as opposed to seeing it), and strategies for contextualizing the data and its effects. There is a particular subset of visualization-based data science known as Quantified Self. The Quantified Self (QS) movement ...

My digital humanities center recently returned to a renovated library building with a dedicated public area. Our pre-renovation space included semi-public shelves full of DH-relevant books, but by 2019 thirteen years of book accrual meant our specialized reference collection needed significant curation. Some of the most appreciated books weren’t making it back to us, and ...

For readers unfamiliar with the process of weaving, terms that first appear below in bold typeface are explained in the Weaving primer/glossary section between the Footnotes and Recipe. I first faced a loom in summer 2017 at the Haystack Mountain School of Craft, during their Open Studio Residency, just before leaving.  I went to Haystack ...

An aspect of making and crafting I considered when invited to contribute to this special issue on physical data visualization is the possibility of confronting failure, especially the failure in the make, and the outcome possibly going very wrong. To be able to learn and grow as a crafter and data viz creator is to ...

Introduction Over the past year I have been researching and crafting a data physicalization piece titled Me & You, 2024 (porcelain and thread, Figure 1). The resulting piece maps the physical locations of three significant people in my life in relation to where I lived at the time. Thread was weaved in between the shapes ...