It's been proven that flies can see 360 degrees and have several other sensors at their disposal, making them very difficult to swat. For a long time, I just rolled up a magazine and swung furiously until I eventually killed the fly, leaving a splotch of tiny guts for me to clean. Then one day I tried something—something new, something innovative. I dampened a paper towel and threw it at the fly. The paper towel hit the wall with a smack and stuck there, trapping the fly against the wall and allowing for easy disposal.

I'm not sure why this technique works so well. I'm not sure why the flies can't see it coming, but they don't. Maybe it's too fast for them. Maybe it's the color of the paper towel. I'm not sure, but it get's them every time. 

Tablet worked with Pitch Interactive on this one. It's an interactive piece that explains General Electric's FlexEfficiency technology. See it in action here.

When I moved from Georgia to Wisconsin in 1996, I wasn't prepared for the harsh and icy winter conditions. After several seasons of sudden slipping (and painful landings), I realized I simply needed to lean forward so my center of gravity was over my leading foot to reduce my chance of falling. I created this infographic to demonstrate this posture. 

Most people seem to think it's good advice. Not long after this infographic was published, it found its way to reddit and quickly went viral. Now it's available in poster form from Tablet's online store. Safety managers across North America have posted it at building exits to help reduce parking lot falls, a leading cause of workplace injury resulting in lost productivity and increased insurance costs. If you're responsible for safety at your facility, consider this memorable poster. 

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Fresh Energy is a Minnesota company dedicated to pursuing greater energy efficiency. They partnered with Tablet to create a series of infographics for their quarterly newsletter.

The transitways infographic explains the different mass transit options available to communities. It illustrates concepts such as: speed, frequency, and energy use; comparative sizes of vehicles; and areas served most effectively in relation to city center. As this infographic demonstrates, a lot of information can be fit into a relatively small space. Additional infographics shown here are selected from the rest of the set.

A version of this waterboarding infographic was licensed for use in an online learning course called War For The Greater Middle East taught by Boston University professor emeritus Andrew Bacevich. It was originally created for the piece Index 01 that appeared in the 2010 Wisconsin Triennial.

Tablet has been creating illustrations for Golf Magazine since 2013. They've ranged from instructive to just plain silly. Here's a selection of some of the work.

Crunch Brands hired Tablet to demonstrate how a new product from their client, Aceso, functions in a hospital setting. The product, UpCare, brings substantive content and interactive support to the patient's television screen.

Tablet specializes in creating metaphorical depictions of products and how they fit into a customer's daily life. This cutaway of a hospital shows UpCare enhancing many different scenarios. The next four illustrations show offsite applications of the technology.

Tablet was contacted by American Way Magazine to create an infographic describing how the locks of the Panama Canal worked. It appeared in the October 15, 2012 issue.

These illustrations were created for agency Duffy & Shanley's client, SouthCoast Health Systems, to advertise their urgent care business. Instructional-style drawings like these work well in a variety of situations ranging in tone from purely educational to comically pedantic.

EnerPath partners with local utilities and governments to offer energy efficiency upgrade options to residents and businesses. They hired Tablet to show how their products and services work in a community. I developed this overview of a town to illustrate all the different aspects of their business.

LoadTrek creates transportation management software for shipping companies. They came to Tablet for a visual overview of the concerns their solutions cover, as well as a series of ownable icons for use in software development. 

The North Carolina agency Mottis contacted Tablet to create an infographic and series of icons for their client, Sensus. The infographic outlines their advanced metering infrastructure for water, FlexNet. The accompanying icons identify which products are used in what situations.

I created this infographic as a fun side project to be included in the book, How To Land A Jumbo Jet. It's a map of Lewis and Clark's journey to find the Northwest Passage cheekily contrasted with related travel facts from today.

Index:01 is a series of prints made for the 2010 Wisconsin Triennial, which opened on May 22 and ran through August 15, 2010. Here I'm mentioned in a post-show review in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Here's a review by some critical writing students at the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design.

LightThink University is the educational arm of LightThink Studios, a Lighting anthropology and design organization. 

Tablet has been working with LightThink for several years by creating visual teaching aids used in print and PowerPoint. Here are two of the larger pieces. The first outlines the mental barriers that keep people from choosing lighting design (as opposed to just installing lights). The second traces the history of the first electric lights to the situation today.

Tablet created four infographics to accompany an article titled How to save your old analog media from extinction! for techhive.com. They explain how to digitize music, books, photos, and videotapes.

To help explain how the new GE Durathon batteries work, Winstanley Partners hired Tablet to create a set of modular icons that can be recombined to represent different renewable energy transmission scenarios. These examples feature a selection of the icons and a few combinations depicting common electrical grids. Additionally, Tablet created over 60 line illustrations for the Durathon manual, 32 of which are shown here.

My contact describes Kerry as "the biggest company you've probably never heard of." They make the ingredients and flavors for many popular products (and, in many cases, the products themselves). Tablet made several infographics for Kerry to use in client presentations. Most of them are proprietary, but these I can show. One describes a flavor as it moves from obscurity to ubiquity, the other a food as it travels from a premium to a mass adoption state.

This infographic outlining the basic steps involved in the making, distributing and selling of wine was created for Wine Enthusiast magazine.

Air Age Media is the largest multimedia publisher of information for enthusiasts of radio-control cars, planes and boats. Here are a few of the many instructional drawings Tablet has created for them.

Tablet created this infographic for Target's RED magazine to demonstrate the energy efficiencies built into new stores.

In 2011, a massive earthquake off the coast of Japan triggered a tsunami that severely damaged the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. This infographic was created as a personal project to coalesce available information in a visually engaging way.

Tablet created several infographics, both static and interactive, to help describe the  benefits of technical colleges and tell the stories of typical attendees.

Structural Elements specializes in the tissue health of endurance athletes. Tablet created their logo and instructional acupuncture posters.