Ben Fry

Ben Fry is principal of Fathom, a design and software consultancy located in Boston. He received his doctoral degree from MIT’s Media Lab, where his research focused on combining fields such as computer science, statistics, graphic design, and data visualization as a means for understanding information. After completing his dissertation in 2004, he spent time developing tools for visualization of genetic data at the Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard. Ben’s work has appeared in museums such as the Whitney, the Cooper-Hewitt, and the Museum of Modern Art, and in the films Minority Report and The Hulk. His information graphics have illustrated articles for the New York Times, New York Magazine, and the journal Nature. In 2011, Ben won the National Design Award for Interaction Design; he was also selected as one of Fast Company‘s 50 Most Influential Designers in America and as one of Slate‘s Top Right. He has lectured on data, design, and programming on five continents, and is the author of three books.