Recently, however, she’s been building an incredible portfolio of design work, highlighting (among other things) her gift for and sensitivity to information graphics. Jan enjoys breaking down existing systems of information into collections of works of art that, besides being beautiful, seem simultaneously haphazard and quantifiable.

“The Same But Different” is a recent series of Jan’s that began as an exploration of content organization. The goal was to find different ways of showing a lot of information within a consistent structure while still maintaining a sense of variability and interest. Each piece within the series followed a set of guidelines that dictated how it would behave, and by slightly altering the assigned changeable variables she ended up with different results from one to the next.