Portrait of Pieter Vos
[10] Oddfield 27Day 1 · 16:10–16:40
Day 1 · 16:10–16:40 · Main Hall
A chart is an argument with a y-axis

Every chart makes a claim, whether its maker meant it to or not. Pieter takes apart six famous charts and redraws each one to argue the opposite.

Information designer

Pieter Vos

[02] BIOGRAPHY

In their own words, mostly

Written with the speaker and checked twice.

BASED IN

Rotterdam

ROOM

Main Hall

STARTS

16:10

Pieter Vos designs charts and maps for newsrooms, city councils and a football club. His studio of four is based in a former harbour office in Rotterdam.

He teaches information design at the art academy and has never used a pie chart in public.

[03] THE TALK

A chart is an argument with a y-axis

Every chart makes a claim, whether its maker meant it to or not. Pieter takes apart six famous charts and redraws each one to argue the opposite.

[04] ALSO SPEAKING

More people worth the train

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Ilse Varga
Portrait photographer
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[02]D1 · 10:20
Portrait of Tomas HoltHall B ↗
Tomas Holt
Type designer, Holt Letters
A typeface that knows it lives on a watch
[03]D1 · 11:00
Portrait of Amara OyelaranMain Hall ↗
Amara Oyelaran
Creative director, Fieldhouse Records
Album art after the album
[04]D1 · 11:40
Portrait of Rufus BrennanThe Loft ↗
Rufus Brennan
Set designer for film
Building a room the camera only sees once

[05] TICKETS

One question from the floor could be yours

[13] ONE EMAIL, WHEN THE PROGRAMME PRINTS

Hear about speakers before the posters go up

Four emails a year: the first names, the full programme, the workshops and the week before the doors open. Nothing else.

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See you under the crane rails.

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