Welcome to Kawan—our vibrant community of data heads and storytellers. We’re all about improving data literacy and sharing nuanced stories about Asia. Come hang!
In design school, I was taught very western-centric design theories. This made me think about other design conventions, especially ones that speak to my heritage.
In this article, we detail the thought process behind our latest story about the world’s reliance on Asia’s transition minerals. We go through the reasoning behind how we designed and presented the piece, in a way that would be accessible and educational for the layperson audience.
Harim is a Korean nuclear engineer by training who has worked in Abu Dhabi. She learned data visualization on her own and is an avid…
“So you want to be a web developer?” “Yeah! I wish I could make stuff like this too!”
Ri graduated from Queensland University of Technology with a degree in Communications Design/Creative Industries/IT. She worked as a…
Let me share with you how we came up with our editorial illustration direction and workflow — and what we learned along the way.
Last month, Mick and I had the great fortune of conducting office hours for students from the University of Applied Sciences Amsterdam…
We’re excited to bring you our first interview of our Community initiative! Launched in late February, we’ve been hungrily scouring the…
Our mission? To coach Yale-NUS students to tell the best data story they can in a data competition!
I sat down with Munirah, who is learning about the art of visualising information during her 9-month traineeship at Kontinentalist.
Outlier was a much-celebrated online conference by the Data Visualization Society (DVS) that took place from 4–8 February 2021