Oh hi, didn’t see you there. I’m John, a creative technologist based in Brooklyn. I design and build web sites, maps, bots, data visualizations, sometimes teams and the occasional printed project for media companies as well as local and international human rights organizations.

I work at the intersection of code, design, and social change, and occasionally write about it, too. Some things I’ve written have been published in Communication Arts, Emigre and Print, featured in Metropolis, HOW, and The Wall Street Journal, and translated into Italian by the AIAP. I am the author of An Introduction to Activism on the Internet, January 2005, and Visualizing Information for Advocacy: An Introduction to Information Design, January 2008. Since 2002, I’ve maintained a weblog of clippings, notes and essays on design and activism.

I’ve taught design at The Beacon School and Parsons School of Design, lectured and conducted workshops in Beirut, Belize, Brussels, Florence, Montego Bay, New York City, Tokyo, Tunis, and Warsaw.

Some of my posters have been shown in Florence, Los Angeles, Montreal, New York City, São Paulo, and Utrecht, and are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Center for the Study of Political Graphics in Los Angeles.

I co-founded the creative agency Apperceptive in 2006, built an amazing team, and sold the company to Six Apart Ltd in 2008.

Thanks for stopping by. You can reach me by email at john at backspace.com.