Sunday, October 06, 2013

Ed Tufte and Graphics Press 20131005


Third annual open house at Edward Tufte's 234-acre outdoor landscape sculpture park and tree farm, which shows 80 monumental ET artworks. Recent pieces include 30 stone megaliths by ET and Dan Snow, stainless steel Feynman diagrams, and the new Ironstone series. Saturday afternoon, October 5, 11.00 to 5.00 at Hogpen Hill Farms, 100 Weekeepeemee Road, Woodbury, Connecticut 06798. For directions use Google maps or similar. 

Hogpen Hill Farms is in Litchfield County in northwest Connecticut, 100 minutes from Manhattan. Wear walking shoes. Call Graphics Press at 203 272-9187 if you have questions. Rain date is Sunday October 6.

"Edward Tufte and Triumph of Good Design" nymag Tufte one-day course
"The thinking eye," NPR Science Friday,transcript + recording.
"The Information Sage,"Washington Monthly Tufte presidential appointment.

"Sometimes curious misfits turn out to be Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Edward Tufte—or Aaron Swartz," Slate, Phreaks and Geeks 
"Edward Tufte on Aaron Swartz: vigorously, marvelously different," here.