Alvin Chang (ITP '12) was listed in Editor and Publisher’s Creative Visionaries class of 2022, highlighting the industry’s creative directors, graphic artists and multimedia designers.
Chang is an independent data journalist and assistant professor of journalism and design at The New School; and, until recently, head of visuals and data at The Guardian US. In 2009, while working at ESPN, he attended ITP. "That’s when I really started thinking about visual and nontraditional storytelling. For example, I collaborated on an installation called 'Soliloquy.' We blindfolded the user, put headphones on their ears and sat them on a stool in the middle of a bunch of fans. When the user would lean in any direction, the fans and the audio would give them the sensation of flying through a nonvisual space. Eventually, they would discover the story. Those experiences really shaped who I am as a journalist. When I got my first job as a data and visual journalist at The Boston Globe, I thought about the best way to tell each story with the resources at hand — in that case, pixels, sound waves and phone sensors."
Read more about this year's Creative Visionaries and the rest of his interview here.