A lot of you lovely folks are my friends on twitter, so you may have seen some of these links floating along in your  stream, but here’s a bullet-pointy list of what I’m busy doing.

For the past 15 years, I’ve been a professional writer, illustrator, and concept director. I develop theories, campaigns, books, and creative media that reimagine formats and provoke thought. Yes, this often involves an insane number of charts, graphs, and illustrated presentations.

Started in August of 2006, Indexed has been noted around the web—much to my continued shock. Thank you to everyone who has shared the link and joined the party. Originally, I described this site this way: “This is a little project that allows me to make fun of some things and sense of others without resorting to doing actual math.”

For more on me and what kind of work I do, there’s this.

Clients I’ve partnered with:

  • AOL
  • BBC Magazine Online
  • BBC Capital
  • Bloomberg BusinessWeek
  • Esquire, Russia
  • NEON Magazine
  • Readers Digest, Canada & US
  • Redbook Magazine
  • Headline News
  • The New York Times
  • New York Magazine
  • Random House, Berlin
  • Taschen Publishing
  • Chronicle Books
  • Penguin’s Viking Studio
  • O’Reilly Publishing
  • McClatchy News Service
  • Gestalten
  • Forbes
  • MOO, London
  • Salesforce.com
  • Plenty Magazine
  • GOOD Magazine
  • Golf Digest
  • JibJab.com
  • SmithsonianMag.com
  • Pearson Education
  • CurrentTV
  • Guinness Atkinson Funds
  • The Seattle Times
  • Victoria’s Secret
  • Starbucks
  • JPMorgan Chase
  • Microsoft
  • Weight Watchers
  • Deloitte
  • SuccessFactors
  • U.S. News & World Report
  • CareerShifters.org

Places I’ve spoken:

  • Eyeo Festival, 2014 (Minneapolis, MN)
  • WebStock, 2104 (Wellington, NZ)
  • SXSW 2012, 2013 (Austin, TX)
  • L2 Innovation Summit, 2012 (NYC)
  • HUDDLE 2011 (London, UK)
  • The Mayo Clinic’s Transform Conference 2010 (Rochester, MN)
  • Pilot Books Micro Residency, 2010 (Seattle, WA)
  • PCBC 2010 Conference (San Francisco, CA)
  • Ward Johnson Winery Gallery, 2010 (Seattle, WA)
  • InfoCamp, October, 2009, (Seattle WA)
  • FOO Camp, August, 2009 (Sebastapol, CA)
  • Ignite Seattle, August 2009 (Seattle, WA)
  • VizThink, February 2009 (San Jose, CA)
  • Design Commission Gallery, October 2009 (Seattle, WA)
  • He Said/She Said Artist Series, March 2008 (Chicago, IL)
  • POPTech 2007, (Camden, ME)

Books I’ve helped create:

Author:

  • How to Be Fearless, Sasquatch Books 2021 (nonfiction)
  • One Morning, Tartarus Press 2020 (fiction)
  • The Humanist’s Devotional, Freethought House 202o (nonfiction)
  • The Art of War, Visualized, Workman 2015 (nonfiction)
  • Here in Line for Security, Ribbon Pig, 2014 (poetry)
  • How to Be Interesting, Workman, 2013 (nonfiction)
  • Indexed, Viking Studio/Penguin 2008
(nonfiction)
  • Schnittmengen, Random House (Berlin), 2010 (nonfiction)
  • Rotisserie Chicken or the Founding Fathers, Chronicle Books, 2009 (nonfiction)

 Contributor:

  • Work for Money, Design for Love, New Riders Press, 2013
  • Breakthrough! Overcome Creative Block & Spark Your Imagination, Cornell University Press, 2013
  • Data Points, Visualization that Means Something, Wiley 2013
  • Liberate Leadership, Green Olive Press, 2012
  • Real Texts: Reading and Writing Across the Disciplines 2nd Edition, Longman (a Pearson Imprint) 2012
  • End Malaria, Domino 2011
  • Information Graphics, Taschen Publishing, 2012
  • I Love Charts, Sourcebooks, 2012
  • You Only Need to Get Rich Once, Greentree Press, 2012
  • What Matters Now, Domino, 2009
  • Age of Conversation (Editions 1, 2 & 3), 2007, 2008, 2009
  • Ecotone, Vol. 4 #1 2008
  • Data Flow, Gestalten, 2009
  • Beautiful Visualization: Visualization Through the Eyes of Experts, O’Reilly, 2010
  • Linchpin, Are You Indispensable?, Portfolio, 2010
  • The World is a Text, Vol. 4, Pearson Education, 2011

Awards people have given my work:

  • Webby Award, Personal Site, 2010
  • Associate Member, International Academy of Digital Art and Sciences, 2010
  • Top Women in Tech, Puget Sound Business Journal, 2009
  • Time Magazine’s Best Blogs of 2008
  • The Morning News, “Our Favorite Reason for the Internet to Exist,” 2008
  • PC Magazine’s Favorite Blogs of 2007
  • Webby Award Nominee, Blog, Cultural/Personal 2007, 2008 & 2009
  • Guardian UK, Best of the Internet, February 2007
  • Google Blog of Note, September 2006
  • ADDY Awards, 2003, 2004
  • Columbus Society for Creative Arts, Awards of Excellence, 2002, 2003
  • Silver Clio, Digital Content, 2001

Contact:

Email me if you’d like to collaborate, advertise, vent, have me speak or babble at your next event, or to ask a silly question. I try to read everything, but spam does eat a lot of notes.

jhagy@yahoo.com

Yes, email snobs, I know it’s a Yahoo! address. I’ve had it for almost 20 years and it still works. Sort of.