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    • 54. Manuel Lima

    Nov 29, 2017

    Manuel Lima is a designer, author, and speaker specializing in information visualization as well as a design lead at Google New York. He’s taught data visualization at Parsons School of Design and is the author of the books, The Books of Trees, The Book of Circles, and Visual Complexity. In this episode, Manuel and I talk about his journey into design and interest in interaction design and information graphics as well as his career as both an author and practicing designer, writing outside academic discourses, and how to bring in other areas of study in design scholarship.

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