Jonathan Corum

After 20 years of NYT graphics, I’ve switched back to freelance and personal projects. My farewell talk is here: style.org/talk/

Some personal news: After 17 years (and one pandemic) at the NYT, I’m taking a sabbatical to work on a project with @EdwardTufte

@Randomoutput Thank you, yes, it looks like all of the 2014 conference videos were recently deleted from Vimeo. I’ll see if I can reach the organizers

@13pt Any chance the video from your "Weight of Rain" talk still exists somewhere (the vimeo link broken). It is one of my favorite design talks of all time and was sad to see the link down.

Illustrated traces of #LongCovid in today's @nytimes See the online version 👇nytimes.com/interactive/20… Extraordinary graphic summary, by @joshkellerjosh @NYTScience w/ @13pt @PamBelluck @AmandaMoMorris

Visual journalism often reveals what can’t be seen with the naked eye: the microscopic, gigantic, hidden or historical. This year, we examined virus particles, deep ocean currents and partisan segregation. Here are some standout visual stories from 2021. nyti.ms/3FHjVfH

@johann_hasse @HuffmanLabDU @AntiMatter31415 The atom count is at the top of the article: 1.3 billion atoms were used in the aerosol simulation.

Led by @RommieAmaro, "a team of 50 scientists has for the first time created an atomic simulation of the coronavirus nestled in a tiny airborne drop of water." “People have literally never seen what this looks like.” Article by @carlzimmer @13pt: nytimes.com/interactive/20… (1/x)

Exceptional and educational #SARSCoV2 graphics on viral biology, aerosols, and variants nytimes.com/interactive/20… by @carlzimmer @13pt "assemble 1.3 billion atoms and track all their movements down to less than a millionth of a second" by @RommieAmaro and team; @linseymarr input

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft launched last week on a 12-year mission to study the Trojan asteroids. Here’s the winding path it will take. nytimes.com/2021/10/16/sci…

For months, my colleagues and I have been immersed in the world of archival maps, photographs, city directories, books, newspapers, survivor accts. and census data to recreate what was lost 100 years ago in Greenwood, also known as the “Black Wall Street”. nytimes.com/interactive/20…

@ChinamiMichaels @idilgalip When I freeze (every talk!) I look up at the screen and try to return to the key idea. If I need a moment, a sip of water or a few steps can fill it. If I keep stumbling over the same spot in practice, I’ll take a hard look at the slides there. Good luck!

@ChinamiMichaels @idilgalip As the talk starts to feel smoother, add an off-screen timer, like a stopwatch. Print the slides in thumbnail view and use them as a visual script to keep practicing the sequence in your head.

@EdwardTufte @nytimes Thank you, just fixed that byline. (Byline styles can shift over time, and sometimes a global CSS change will override an older project style.) Here’s the original concept sketch, from 2018:

@rach_driver The text above the image says the source is NASA’s Clementine spacecraft. But I’d be skeptical of anyone claiming a “massive towering object” on the moon that casts no shadow.

@13pt Is this the origin of this photo?

Rest in peace, Michael Collins. He captured all of humanity in one photograph, except himself. nyti.ms/3u4NEta

Go behind the scenes at a Pfizer factory to see how mRNA vaccines are made. Very cool video/graphics piece by @EmmaCottNYT @elliotdebruyn @13pt nytimes.com/interactive/20…

@KelleyWillis @kchangnyt @nytimes Eventually, yes. In a normal year I would update it regularly, but virus and vaccine updates have priority now. That credit style might be a recent template change — not how it looked at launch.

@kchangnyt @nytimes @13pt @13pt this is such a great graphical presentation. Would you please a) update it to reflect the arrival of all the Mars missions from around our world, and b) take some damned credit instead of hiding behind an unreadable color for your byline?

via @NYTimes Hey, .⁦@kchangnyt⁩ Think you could get this great piece updated, especially the Mars part? And how ‘bout a byline too. Someone deserves some credit, not just a never-before-seen ___________ . Thx. nytimes.com/interactive/20…

@macroliter We do mention P681H in the context of B.1.1.7, but have not given it a separate listing. But as more information comes out that could easily change.