Seven months later, I finally found a day to sit down and brush up the final details for my Genealogy of the Written Word poster that I presented in my Design History class in October. Here’s the version I presented in class: And my first touched-up version: The biggest change was eliminating the gradient and allowing the map…
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DesignTheory: Visualizing Networks
My Design History class with Paul Kahn got me very interested in the early 1800’s as a period of design innovation. People has access to public data and statistics tools for the first time, and developed a host of new tools to visualize this new kind of information. William Playfair invented bar and pie charts,…
Grids and boxes
Every once in a while you catch yourself using the same approach to solve different problems. Sometimes that’s a good thing, and the insight gives you another tool in your repertoire. And sometimes, you realize that you’re applying the wrong solution, and a different approach might work better. Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve come…
History ID: Genealogy project
We were assigned a genealogy project in my History of Information Design class, where we were to choose a topic and create an infographic to show a lineage. While I was pondering my choice of topics, I was also studying from A Type Primer by John Kane for VisComm. As I puzzled my way through…