Information Design Dir
JESS3
Born on St Helena Island, in the South Atlantic Ocean, Robin studied in Colchester, Essex, UK, before returning to St Helena, where he worked as a teacher, ordnance surveyor and in local media. While on the island, Richards started and ran his own design business - the only one a 1,500 mile radius - and, as the story goes, owned the only imac and ipod in the South Atlantic for some time. In 2009, he moved to Bristol, UK where he started work with a new digital start with a focus on infographics, before moving on to become part of the JESS3 design team. Where he is responsible for overseeing their infographic output, while also working on on data visualisation across web and mobile platforms. His work has been featured on Techcrunch, Flowing Data, Fast Company, Gizmodo, BBC, Guardian, Alltop, Foursquare (I voted) and, his personal fav - informationisbeautiful.