Journal
Notes from the drawing desk: yearbook structure, photocopy-safe colour, Georgia’s budget calendar, and footnotes that survive a sitting.
These pieces are written for statistics units, finance officers, and programme teams who still send a pack to a printer. They are not essays about digital transformation.
Source notes that survive an audit question
A footnote is not a dumping ground. It is the sentence you will have to read aloud when someone doubts the bar.
What belongs in a yearbook chapter, and what belongs in the annex
If a table cannot survive a question in the chamber, it is not a chapter. It may still be an annex.
Colour that survives a greyscale photocopier
Sakrebulo packs are copied at 07:40. If two series become the same grey, the figure has already failed.
Timing a budget chart set against Georgia’s calendar
A beautiful plate delivered after the book has gone to print is a drawing, not a budget figure.
When a map is the wrong figure for a district comparison
A choropleth of forty-two interviews is not geography. It is a guess with a coastline.