I don't see art and design as mutually exclusive. I also don't think that data viz is exclusively about functionality. Take a project like this: https://www.de

I don't see art and design as mutually exclusive. I also don't think that data viz is exclusively about functionality. Take a project like this: https://www.dear-data.com/theproject https://www.dear-data.com/theproject... this is clearly data visualization and, to me, quite evocative. These visualizations aren't designed for clarity and they don't need to be, that wasn't the goal.