robert hempsall - information designer

Oi BT, careful what you call me

Robert — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:43:20 +0000

Yesterday I got a letter through the door from my beloved BT (to whose communicative ineptitude this site is slowly become a shrine) offering me a shiny deal on broadband because I'm a 'loyal customer'. Guess what, when you're one of the remaining monopolies left in the country, and you have my internet testicles attached to copper wire, that's not loyalty – it's because I don't have a choice. Remember this when you write to me next time.

Lovely Nigel Holmes infographic

Robert — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 13:43:12 +0000

Lots more at www.nigelholmes.com

Thanks for the pointless letter

Robert — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 21:42:23 +0000

Mercifully, after a bit of squirming my way out of my contract a bit early, I'm back in the land of the iPhone. o2 kindly wrote to me to tell me this, in case I'd thought it was all a dream. Here is an excerpt from the letter they sent me.

Alan Siegel: Let’s simplify legal jargon!

Robert — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 04:36:44 +0000

Hitler’s approach to voting

Robert — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 14:04:31 +0000

From Userfocus's article: A CRAP way to improve usability.

Information is Beautiful Award winner

Robert — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 15:56:49 +0000

The first winner of the challenge to visualise 'when our natural resources will run out' was this design by Camden Asay.

The judges reasons...

Simple, elegant distillation of story from the sea of data, using categories, colors and stark design to transmit the point cleanly. Full page is here.

TEDxO’Porto – Sandra Fisher Martins – The Right to Understand [English Subtitled]

Robert — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 15:49:29 +0000

Guest post: Stories aren’t circular

Robert — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 13:22:42 +0000

By Tom Albrighton In Flann O’Brien’s brilliant comic novel The Third Policeman, the unnamed narrator negotiates a series of surreally disturbing encounters before realising he is in fact (spoiler alert)...

An interview with… me

Robert — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 08:45:29 +0000

Very recently, I was kindly asked by European content strategists Firehead Ltd to be the guinea pig (the picture makes sense now, right?) for the first in their 'Interview with...' series. Here's what I had to say

UK train ticket redesign

Robert — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 22:57:11 +0000

The information design geek in me took special notice of a post by Daniel Gray, about the excessive number of train tickets he received for a return journey.