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  • Christian Swinehart

    Part-Time Faculty

    Email
    swinehac@newschool.edu

    Office Location
    A - Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall - 66 West 12th Street

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    Christian Swinehart

    Profile

    Christian Swinehart is a graphic designer, software developer, and data artist. His practice focuses on interaction and user interface design with a specialty in data visualization. He is the founder and principal of Samizdat Drafting Co. and is an active participant in the open-source world as the author of the PlotDevice and Arbor.js visualization tools.

    Christian's work is informed by a background in biology and computational modeling. His projects frequently employ simulation and numerical analysis as a means to communicate the structure within complex systems. Recent clients include The New York Times, Bloomberg, Gallup, Pentagram, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, and Allied Works Architects.

    Degrees Held

    MFA | Graphic Design (RISD, 2008)
    Ph.D. | Computational Neuroscience (Brandeis University, 2005)
    BS | Cognitive Science (Dickinson College, 1998)

    Portfolio

    Samizdat Drafting Co.

    Current Courses

    Data Structures

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