For the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, I worked with home energy monitor startup Sense to illustrate how the typical new home in the U.S. today has evolved since the first Earth Day in 1970, and where that trend might take us another 50 years in the future. These infographics expand on previous work I’ve […]
I worked with startup Sense to illustrate a user’s manual and installation guide for their home energy monitor. They wanted the instructions to support their branding through use of a limited palette and an emphasis on simplicity. The monitor attaches to a home’s electrical panel and makes energy usage and statistics available via a smartphone app. I also created […]
I got an early start on my spring cleaning and today I debut two new portfolios. The first is a selection of information graphics, or infographics, I’ve created for various clients. Infographics are any form of visual communication design, regardless of content or style. Since technical illustration might be considered a subset of this broadly […]
For their July/August 2010 issue, AARP The Magazine contacted me again to create an infographic for their AARP & You survey. That month’s survey was about informal volunteering; donating one’s time outside of an organization or association. Unfortunately, the dataset was rather slim. It consisted of two points that indicated an increase in popularity of informal […]
Earlier in the year, I worked with the world’s largest circulation magazine, AARP The Magazine, which focuses on aging issues. AD Joanna Foucheux had some survey data about caregivers’ preferences for different types of government support, and wanted to communicate that data visually.Caregivers were given a list of possible government support options and were asked their […]
Relocating the motors in electric vehicles from the main chassis into the wheel hubs, closer to the road, could boost their efficiency and improve a vehicle’s handling. This full-spread exploded illustration gives readers a visual crash course on the concept. IEEE Spectrum magazine received the 2019 SIIA Neal Award for Best Infographics for this story.
About James Provost James Provost is a freelance technical illustrator based in Toronto, Canada who works with magazine, publishing, marketing and corporate clients to communicate information visually. An honours graduate from the Technical & Scientific Illustration Bachelor of Arts program at Sheridan College, James has worked with clients from around the world in the publishing, marketing, advertising, design and […]
An infographic showing the construction of the world’s tallest modular building, the 32-story, 363 unit B2 building in Brooklyn, New York. The 930 sections were fabricated on an assembly line in a factory offsite, then loaded onto a fleet of flatbed trucks, transported to the Atlantic Yards construction site and hoisted into place.
An infographic on the cleanup efforts over the next 40 years at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station in Japan. The process includes inspection and scrubbing robots, containment of radioactive water used to cool the leaked radioactive fuel, freezing the ground to prevent contamination of ground water and removal of spent fuel rods in pools above the reactor.
Japan Railways has approved construction for the fastest railway in the world. The new Chuo Shinkansen trains will employ magnetic levitation technology, a form of propulsion the elevates train cars to eliminate friction and speed acceleration, and will reduce travel time between Tokyo and Osaka from 3 hours to 67 minutes with a top speed […]