Omg omg omg omg! My lovely mother just bought me a Wii! I am so happy! I cannot wait to go home and play it! I am mostly looking forward to reliving my childhood Sega loving by playing the new NiGHTS game.
James Goggin was commissioned to design a 'translation' of a Japanese book with Alison Turnbull. The result was this - 'Spring Snow'.
"For the project, Turnbull collected all the colour descriptions from Yukio Mishima’s novel 'Spring Snow' and annotated them as a series of colour charts.
Designed in the traditional Japanese novel bunko format, ‘Spring Snow -— A Translation’ is exactly that: a visual translation of Mishima’s text ordered by colour. Novelist Tony White wrote a psuedo-fictitious introduction for the project which was in turn translated back into Japanese".
Last week's colour workshop made me realize the impact that just colour can have - something that is clearly shown here. I think this 'translation' is really innovative and it becomes more interesting because of the meaning behind it.
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One of many interesting charts from the
HistoryShots website. I think its a great example because of how visually intriguing it is as well as being incredibly simple. On their website you can view the chart interactively so you can zoom in on all the little details like the name of the space crafts and which countries took part in the moon race. Each section of space is colour coded so you can clearly see how far each one got before they failed.
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Some photos of
Dan Collier's book Typographic Links. It is a collectible hand-sewn publication, which maps interesting links and connections through the world of typography. The aim was to create a book and accompanying poster that took a light-hearted look at typographic practice. Thread is used to create three-dimensional hyperlinks that guide the reader through the pages of the book.
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This colorful infographic is part of a delightful set produced by Juan Pablo De Gregorio to illustrate a monography on the Centre For Mathematical Modelling (CMM) - part of the University Of Chile. The series of infographics were placed throughout the brochure to illustrate different themes. Most executions within the set are conceptual drawings with no depiction of real data. They are, however, highly innovative and inspirational.
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"A series of posters based on mapping the relationships between cited authors and referenced ideas in Jane Bennett's essay, 'The Force of Things: Steps Toward An Ecology Of Matter, in order to generate an image of the conceptual territory of the essay and each work cited."
As Ian Dapot explains: "This work came from an interest in how ideas get from one place or person to another. I began by creating an Adobe PDF of Bennett's essay and spreading each page over the surface of the poster. I highlighted the name of every author cited in the text and connected each reference, through line and/or areas of color. I tried to demarcate the territory of each cited author or work to show how Bennett's thinking and arguments were constructed. I tried to clarify the connections between each author and make reference to the visual language of maps. I then worked on a typographic layout for the title and masked off the intersections of the connections and the typography".From Ian Dapot's
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Haha! Tamara Shopsin is very witty.
Douglas Wilson designed this set of posters for Keep Calm, an online gallery where you can order some really nice prints with inspiring mantras written on them. I'm doing travelling for our project and while I rejected the use of maps for my timelines, I really like how Wilson has used them. It gives a really clear message delivered in a clever way. They're only £22 as well, I might just order one.
This is Jennifer Daniel's one-page portfolio of editorial illustrations and information graphics. I'm sure most people in the class will be glad to move away from graphs now. Hence why I've chosen a completely different kind of timeline for my final set.
She even designed 50 envelopes containing some goodies (including a Sharpie <3) for the first people to buy pieces from her range. Shame, I wish I could've seen her in action. Hopefully it will still be there when I go back to London.
Rather lovely typographic design created by Chrissie Abbott in response to last year's smoking ban. I saw this and went to explore her website where I found some even more interesting pieces.
