Herwig Scherabon is a graphic designer featured this week in The Guardian.
Herwig Scherabon's work includes a series of artistic visualizations using gentrification data from cities like San Francisco, London, Chicago, and Los Angeles. The visualizations vary between function and form, with the San Francisco example providing a collection of colors reminiscent of Ellsworth Kelly.
Click the link below to see Scherabon's images.
Read the full story: The art of gentrification: city data made beautiful
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Greater Baltimore Committee
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