Press

Harvard Business Review: How GE Uses Data Visualization to Tell Complex Stories — May 2013
Flowing Data: Exploration of how much geography is needed in metro maps — May 2013
Neiman: Reuters bets big on context, structure and dataviz to understand power in China — April 2013
Columbia Journalism Review: Connecting China, visually — April 2013
AIGA Design Envy: Interactive touch screen installations for GE — August 2012
The Atlantic: The 20th Century, as Told Through One Amazing Data Visualization — March 2012
Fast Company, Infographic of the Day: 2 GE Infographics Offer Hints About Future Of Data-Driven Management — February 2012
Digiday: Why GE is Betting on Data Visualization — February 2012
Fastcompany Infographic of the Day: Charting The Life And Death Of Our Greatest Companies — February 2012
Visualmag: Frankenfont types and corpses — January 2012
Fast Company: Infographic of the Day: A Strange, Brilliant Map Of The World’s Population — November 2011
Fast Company: Data Viz Wiz Ben Fry Reconstructs “Frankenstein” Using 55,000 Font Fragments — October 2011
AP: Michelle Obama honors top designers at White House — September 2011
First Lady Michelle Obama honors National Design Awards winners — September 2011
Fast Company: 50 most influential designers in America — September 2011
Slate: The “Top Right” in Design — August 2011
The Eyeo Festival: the Practice of Digital Information & Art — July 2011
The Eyeo Festival: Converge to Inspire — June 2011
Media Bistro: Ben Fry’s ‘Odd Route’ Through Design World Pays Off — June 2011
Fast Company Infographic of the Day: Ben Fry’s TriTRACK Simplifies Triathlon Training — June 2011
Boston Globe: Three locals honored by Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt — June 2011
Time: What would MacGyver do? — June 2011
NY Times: “Ben Fry, who turns sociological and scientific data into mesmerizing digital images, was honored for his interaction design.” — May 2011
Ben Fry wins National Design Award — May 2011
Lifehacker: The Ultimate MacGyver Recipe Book — May 2011
Gizmodo: Every Awesome Thing MacGyver Ever Made — May 2011
Flowing Data: MacGyver recipe book — May 2011
Fast Company Infographic of the Day: Ben Fry And GE Bring Health Care Crisis To iPad — May 2011
O’Reilly Media meets Ben Fry (Fathom Information Design) — May 2011
Fast Company: Meet all ten winners of the 2011 National Design Awards — May 2011
Rolling Stone: 20 designers who will influence design in the next decade — April 2011
Design Times: Ben Fry is designing a better future — March 2011
Fast Company Infographic of the day: How Does Your Kid’s School Stack Up? — October 2010
Today Show: NBC Education Nation Scorecard for Schools — October 2010
Creativity Online: Visualizing aging around the world — July 2010
Fast Company Infographic of the Day: The Cost of Getting Sick — November 2009
Fast Company: The Evolution of Charles Darwin’s Magnum Opus — September 2009
Creativity Online: GE Health Visualizer — May 2009

Exhibitions

“Signals” art piece up at MIT’s Building 76
“All Streets” at Node 10: abstrakt Abstrakt – The Systemized World

Talks

AIGA: Fathom Information Design: Adventures in Data — April 2013
Talk, Visualized Conference — November 2012
Talk, Eyeo 2012 — June 2012
Talk, WESTAF Symposium — April 2012
Lecture, FITC San Francisco — August 2011
Talk, The Eyeo Festival — June 2011
Lecture, Boston University — June 2011
Talk, O’Reilly Where 2.0 Conference — June 2011
Keynote, the Donaghue Foundation — May 2011
Design Indaba: 20 Questions for Ben Fry — April 2011
Lecture, Harvard University — April 2011
South by Southwest Interactive — April 2011
Design Indaba 2011 — January 2011
Lecture and workshop, YOW! 2011 in Melbourne — December 2010
Lecture, Connecting the Dots symposium, Harvard University — October 2010
Lecture, Georgia Tech — October 2010
Android mobile summit, Chicago — October 2010
Talk, Flash on the Beach conference, Brighton — September 2010
Lecture and workshop, UX Week — August 2010
Talk, USENIX Annual Conference — June 2010
Talk, O’Reilly Making Data Work Online Conference — June 2010
Lecture, Harvard GSD — April 2010
Processing.js Panel 2010. — April 2010
Lecture, IIC colloquium, Harvard University — March 2010
Keynote, Visualizing Biological Data — March 2010
Lecture, Columbia University — February 2010
Talk, CaT — June 2009

Ben recently presented at the second Eyeo Festival, a gathering of creative coders, designers, and artists in Minneapolis, MN. View more presentations from this year’s conference.