Friday, 17 June 2011

Presentation Idea

I have created five A1 pages with images from my book, I will cut these out and place them onto foam board to make them not curl up. Once on foam board I will hang them around my display case where my books are held to make it stand out more.

Setting up for the Show.

Now my book has been printed and made my next focus is on set design. This picture is taken from Vault49 and is along the lines of something I want to achieve.

Wednesday, 8 June 2011

Further research / Guide

I purchased this book the other day, it shows examples of how to present work and also shows interviews from designers so they can give advice and tips with information design work. This book also has 30 case studies which I plan to do over the Summer to continue my interest in Information Graphics and develop my skills further after the FMP.

Saturday, 28 May 2011

Information is Beautiful / David McCandless

I purchased this book online and it arrived today, this book is beautiful and has me totally hooked.
There is such a variety of work and information and this will inspire some edits on my pages. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in infographics.

Thursday, 26 May 2011

Alternate Front Cover - Inspired by Gerd Arntz.

This front cover was inspired by Gerd Arntz who's Isotype's have been an inspiration for some of my work in this project, just wanted to try a different front cover as the more ideas I have the better work I can create...well that's my theory anyway.

Isotype - Massive Inspiration for my project.

Isotype's have been the backbone of this project for me really, since all I've been doing is using silhouette looking images that resemble something from the time period I'm looking into. Isotype's originated in the 1930s by Austrian philosopher and curator Otto Neurath 'as a symbolic way of representing quantitative information via easily interpretable icons', early infographics basically.

Further Research Into InfoGraphics.















This is from the site informationisbeautiful, the title of this piece is 'most common words in toy adverts'. A relatively dull title but the way it has been realised in terms of graphics gives it vibrancy and life. This one is just for male toys with the more popular names larger and more noticeable. Information Graphics is something I have really come to love over the last few months and is something I want to focus on in the future.