Ben Fry
Designer working with data; co-creator with Casey Reas of the Processing programming environment, author of Visualizing Data, and founder of the Fathom Information Design studio.
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Uses Cinema Display
Most of my time is spent on a 15" MacBook Pro and a 30" Cinema Display. I got the Cinema Display for myself after some particularly tedious client work a few years back.
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Uses FontForge
After that it's Transmit, TextWrangler, Hex Fiend, OpenOffice, Picasa, and lots of UNIX stuff from MacPorts like FontForge.
usesthis.com 2 May 2009
Uses Hex Fiend
After that it's Transmit, TextWrangler, Hex Fiend, OpenOffice, Picasa, and lots of UNIX stuff from MacPorts like FontForge.
usesthis.com 2 May 2009
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Uses Transmit
After that it's Transmit, TextWrangler, Hex Fiend, OpenOffice, Picasa, and lots of UNIX stuff from MacPorts like FontForge.
usesthis.com 2 May 2009
Uses Eclipse
Most of my time is spent with Emacs, Processing, Eclipse, Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop CS3.
usesthis.com 2 May 2009
Uses Processing
Most of my time is spent with Emacs, Processing, Eclipse, Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop CS3.
usesthis.com 2 May 2009
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Uses emacs
Most of my time is spent with Emacs, Processing, Eclipse, Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop CS3.
usesthis.com 2 May 2009
Loved Sierra Compass 597
I travel frequently and take multiple spare batteries (take that, MacBook Air) and a Sierra Compass 597 EVDO from Sprint. The Sprint card makes me happy: being able to get a high speed connection in remote places has made the difference between a working vacation or no vacation at all.
usesthis.com 2 May 2009
Where they publish
Site benfry.com His personal site and project archive.
Link verified 5 Sept 2026.
Site fathom.info Fathom Information Design, the studio he founded; project write-ups and talks.
Link verified 5 Sept 2026.
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