information graphics

My Water Diary

My water diary is an application that tracks you water usage over a week. This I-phone is aimed to help people reduce their water consumption over a period of time. The main screen of the app allows you to select what action the user is completely and by clicking on this action, the user is then taken to another screen where they brought the amount of water usage into the application and it has to their weekly total. Graphs are made by the data collect daily and then weekly to show the users the about of water during these times.

http://www.dedass.com/detail.php?ref=115&title=My%20Water%20Diary

This map is based on the Swiss train stations and is the third attention of the Web trend Map. It has been redesign by a strategic design agency, Information Architects, based in Tokyo, Japan.

The simple and clean design allows the map to be interpreted easily along with a wide audience range understanding how the data connects to each other. They have listed the number of trends and added another two layer components to the map, which are brand quality and interface quality of these already being displayed on the map. 

http://cloudfront7.informationarchitects.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/webtrendmap2008A3.pdf

Janice Caswell

These drawings are to show the mental maps and the investigation of how people organize their memories. The tracing trace the revisited experiences and plotting the movement of the body and our consciousness movement through time and space. In recording this data and representing it, these 3D illustrations become dynamic records of how our memory acts to recreate what we see and how we remember certain memories and not others.

 “This work arises out of a desire to capture experience, an impulse to locate, arrange and secure the past. I use a pared-down, coded language through which points, lines and fields of color define spaces and retell narratives, making memories concrete. But memory is a flawed system. Gaps arise in the process of recollecting and the mind is constantly reconfiguring and recreating the past. My work embraces the mind’s faulty processes. In drawing my “maps,” subjective decision making, human error and reevaluation come into play. The result is a representation that is simultaneously deliberate and vague.”

The 2010 Annual Report is an encapsulation of Felton’s Father’s life, as communicated by the calendars, slides and other artifacts in his possession.

http://feltron.com/ar10_02.html

The Force of Things is 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.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”.

http://www.iandapot.com

The Skin colours of the world project by Reineke Otten is a series of scarves designed for each country with data that has been collected on the skin colours throughout that country and then designed in a visually interesting product. From her field study in Visual Sociology she has recorded a range of data to reveal the social patterns and orders within these countries to generate beautiful display of detail.  The data has been collected over a long period of time with a range of primary sources such as; The World Fact Book, the pantone color system, data from Internet, interviews with dermatologists, research by cosmetic companies, thousands of images of people, and her intuition.

 The World Skin Colours scarves turn this data into a visual language, and then into fashion. translates gathered statistics about migration, population density, temperature, UV radiation, GDP, and transport into a graphic code: the numerical grid of an Excel sheet becomes shape, colour, and pattern in eight overlapping layers. Each layer represents a different factor influencing the composition of skin tones in a particular place.


Each of the 231 scarves is unique because each country generates its own data. The scarves reveal relationships, histories, and patterns of populations; they tell stories that you can fold, twist, drape, hang, or wear; stories to contemplate, discuss, or retell.

Reineke created the conditions for these layers of information to interact visually. The beauty, for me, lies in the surprises — the unexpected ways in which these shapes and colors come together.

http://worldskincolors.com/project