Jason Killinger Design & Direction

I'm very excited to be working with Dr. Tukufu Zuberi, Professor of Sociology and Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania on a series of data visualizations about race and migration.

As I begin this project, I stumbled upon these beautiful and ahead-of-their-time infographics about race from Penn researcher, W.E.B. Du Bois.

W. E. B. Du Bois’ Hand-Drawn Infographics of African-American Life (1900) Stunning hand-drawn charts created by Du Bois and his students at Atlanta, condensing an enormous amount of data on African-American life into a set of aesthetically daring and easily digestible visualisations.

I'm talking about Design and Social Change tomorrow (10/14) at Moore College of Art & Design from 6:30-8pm. It's a Design Philadelphia Event and it's free!!

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And sometimes you win! A few years ago I helped the Advancement Project get the word out about a Civil War-era provision in Virginia's Constitution aimed at disenfranchising African-American voters. This week the governor issued an executive order to overturn that provision. Here is a piece of the infographic I made for the issue. Story of the case in the links!

This visualization gives really puts things in perspective.

"But Slavery was So Long Ago..."

We were commissioned to create a graph tattoo showing a timeline of Slavery of the African Diaspora in the Americas. Because it also details segregation in the US, it didn't make sense to include the full timeline, even though slavery throughout the Caribbean has a much older history.

Here are the pertinent dates we used:

1619: Arrival of "20 and odd" Africans in late August 1619, on an English warship, White Lion.
http://www.nps.gov/jame/learn/historyculture/african-americans-at-jamestown.htm

1865: Slavery abolished in the United States of America.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/slavery-abolished-in-america

1954: Supreme Court Declares School Segregation Unconstitutional in Brown v. Board of Education
http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/17/may-17-1954-supreme-court-declares-school-segregation-unconstitutional-in-brown-v-board-of-education/

The Atlantic unveils this beautiful and eye opening animation using visualized data.

The Racism of Mass Incarceration, Visualized 2 minutes | In this animated interview, the sociologist Bruce Western explains the current inevitability of prison for certain demographics of young black men and how it's become a normal life event. "We've...

This is a depressing infographic that I've always wanted to make. Haisam Hussein beat me to it but did a wonderful job.

We Blew It: A Time Line of Human Impact on the Planet | VICE | United States Can we get a do-over? Pretty please?

My best design work of 2014. Thank you to all of my clients. I can't wait to work with you again in 2015!

Best of 2014 A collection of some of the projects I worked on in 2014

Do you like community green spaces and gardening? Check out the newly revamped 'Grounded in Philly' site. Link up with neighbors and expand the community space in your hood before those out-of-town developers sn**ch it all up!

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We did it! Our most jam-packed Eyes Habit map yet... Center City Philadelphia... covering everything from Ben Franklin to Edgar Allen Poe to the Ramones first philly show. Buy it online and please spread the word!

The Center City Map by Eyes Habit 25x19", 3 colors. Hand-drawn & hand-screened on 80 lb archival coverstock in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Created this logo for Lisa's Kitchen who makes and delivers homemade baked goods in NYC.

This week I'm working with GSA Network and Advancement Project (DC) to help end that targets LGBTQ youth, particularly youth of color. I'm really happy to have designed all of the materials surrounding the campaign. Read about the report on Huffington Post...

LGBT Kids Of Color Are More Likely To Be Disciplined In School, Study Shows Tanayshia Price, a 15-year-old black student who identifies as q***r, says she has been suspended from school more times than she can count. “I feel like the school district that I’m in, they don’t know how to handle everything t...