Nicholas Felton

Posted on September 2, 2010 by reb22

Nicholas Felton

Graphic designer Nicholas Felton used to wonder where all his time and effort went. No more. Not since he created The Feltron* Annual Reports – mountains of mundane data he’s transformed into beautiful graphs and maps – making Nicholas an Internet sensation.  For example, one page of his 2009 Annual Report shows his varying happiness and sadness levels. Another tallies up how many kinds of cheeses he’d eaten (FYI, it’s twelve). And another measures his ratio of alcoholic to non-alcoholic beverages. Nicholas even co-created Daytum.com to help others visualize their own stats. His graphics have appeared in The New York Times, Wired Magazine, New York Magazine and many more. Here’s to hoping the time Nicholas spent responding to 10 ANSWERS ends up in his next report.

*There’s an “r” in his report titles but not in his name.

1. How would you describe your work in three words?
 Neat. Detailed. Rigorous.

2. Who is your creative role model?
 Brian Eno.

3. If you had an extra hour each day what would you do with it?
 That would be my reading hour.

4. What place in the world most inspires you and why?
 The Museum of Natural History in NYC is fantastic, as is the Exploratorium in San Francisco. They both reveal the unknown, encourage curiosity and tickle the eyes.

5. If you could do a different job for a day what would it be and why?
 Sushi chef… it’s my backup career.

6. What is your favorite homemade gift to give?
 Collages or food.

7. What is your favorite object in your home?
 My passport.

8. What is the best advice you’ve ever received?
 “Go to the Rhode Island School of Design.”

9. What websites do you use for inspiration?
 I use and ffffound and creativeapplications.net

10. When do you consider a piece of your work complete?
 When I open a file, or flip back to the composition from another window and everything is in its right place.

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5 Responses to Nicholas Felton

  1. francois du toit says:
    September 3, 2010 at 2:29 am

    is there a graph or map that shows the amount of time and effort he put into creating graphs these graphs and maps?

    Reply
  2. francois du toit says:
    September 3, 2010 at 2:29 am

    is there a graph or map that shows the amount of time and effort he put into creating these graphs and maps?

    Reply

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