Sunday 21 November 2010

Audree Lapierre:


Audree Lapierre specialises in packaging design, data visualisation and surface design. I found this data visualisation diagram of the different areas of data visualisation, and how certain sub-categories over lap with one another. It couldn't be more appropriate for my on going investigation into data visualisation for my dissertation.

Seven summits infographic: Seven summits of mountains from the seven continents.
I like how there is a nice ratio between image and graph, which is something that is quite difficult to get the right balance of.

Wheel of Nutrition:


Created by designers Hafsteinn Jullusson, Rui Pereira and Joana Pals, plates designed into pie charts that divide the nutritional value of your meal up into sections. To cater for people with 'different needs', there are three available types; Diet, extra ordinary and supersize. The goal of the plates is to reduce obesity by making people stick to the pie chart. I just think its a different approach to infographics, as it is not only making people aware of their health, but then makes suggestions to how they can improve on the state of their diet.

E-number content:

Tuesday 16 November 2010

Fake food:

I found this image entitled E Number (The pantone food) by the french illustrator Stephane Massa-Bidal, which may have helped me reach a break through within my project......
His global concept is called 'Retrofuturs', in which he mixes the past, present and future altogether. I like his slight use of infographics, along with illustration.

Monday 15 November 2010

Jerry Uelsmann:

                                                 Home is a memory
Surrealist photographer Jerry Uelsmann creates fabrications of reality, which I thought would feed in nicely to the idea of fakery. I found some of his photographs in the book Fabrications: Staged, altered and appropriated photographs. Fabrication being deliberately false or improbable account, these images visually represent this term perfectly. 

                                                       Little Hamburger Tree

Studio Verse:


Nicholas Carey of Studio Verse designed this annual AGDA poster in 2010. I thought it was slightly appropriate for the Fakery project I am considering doing. I thought the message reiterated the idea that it's not people, themselves that are fake, it's the exterior they choose to show which can be considered as fake, or not the 'real them'. Carey's rationale of his work seemed fitting, 'Graphic design is to a message what stagehands are to a performance'.

Tuesday 2 November 2010

History Flow:


Created by designers Fernanda B Viegas & Martin Wattenberg, History Flow is a tool for visualising dynamic, evolving documents and the interactions of multiple collaborating authors. Currently, History Flow has been utilised to visualise the evolutionary history of wikipedia. The history flow application charts the evolution of a document as it is edited by many people.
The results are visually stunning, I really like the colours, and layers, almost as if like contour lines from a map.