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 Joel Katz is President of Joel Katz design associates, an information design, wayfinding, and interpretation design firm whose work spans the corporate, institutional, and public sectors. The firm has a special expertise in diagrammatic cartography and the visualization of complex process and statistics. Katz holds a BA Scholar of the House with Exceptional Distinction and BFA and MFA degrees in graphic design from Yale. He has taught at Yale, Rhode Island School of Design, and the University of the Arts, and is the co-author of two books. He was made an honorary life member of the International Paediatric Nephrology Association for his work on developing a graphic notation for visualizing infants’ kidney function. Projects include: illustrative diagrams of monoclonal antibody function using a Star Wars metaphor; Walk!Philadelphia, a pedestrian wayfinding system featuring heads-up diskmaps; and interpretive graphics for Independence Mall. Katz writes and lectures widely; his diagrammatic and cartographic work has been featured in numerous publications, including Information Architects by Richard Saul Wurman and The Best in Diagrammatic Graphics by Nigel Holmes. Katz was the first president of AIGA/Philadelphia, and a director and vice president for chapters of AIGA National. Collaborators: David E. Schpok, designer, is an Associate of JKda; Monique Boujean Williams, researcher, is a third-year Ph.D. candidate in Demography at the University of Pennsylvania; Jennifer Long and Mary Torrieri are designers at JKda. E-mail: jkatz@mapfarm.com. Web site: www.joelkatzdesign.com. < < Nigel Holmes Krzysztof Lenk and Paul Kahn > > |
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