Hello

I’m David McCandless, a London-based author, writer and designer. I’ve written for The Guardian, Wired and others. I’m into anything strange and interesting.

These days I’m an independent data journalist and information designer. A passion of mine is visualizing information – facts, data, ideas, subjects, issues, statistics, questions – all with the minimum of words.

I’m interested in how designed information can help us understand the world, cut through BS and reveal the hidden connections, patterns and stories underneath. Or, failing that, it can just look cool!

My pet-hate is pie charts. Love pie. Hate pie-charts.

• A book of my information designs is published by HarperCollins in the US and UK in 2009.
• In the past, I’ve worked as a journalist, video games writer, satirist, copywriter, and creative director. My personal site.
• Check out my Google Shared Items scrapbook (Be warned: it’s mostly funny viral chaff and bizarro pictures)
• Some of my satirical comedy: Crack-Book.com, Porn For Girls By Girls, Schmapple and more
• I created the Helicopter Game, the most addictive game on the internets. Don’t click – you’ll be hooked.