bandwagon

Starting to make stuff, different ways of making stuff from the infographics... It's probably best to do stuff even if it's not very relevant/good rather than do nothing at all, innit

I took this image of tall buildings, pretty simple, just the height is measured...

http://users.ira.sch.gr/iriniper/allazontas_megethos/images/tallest-buildings.jpg

and then drew the buildings in Illustrator (some of the buildings haven't been constructed so I left them out):

Then printed them off on a b&w laser jet, mounted them onto foam board and cut them out. Foam board was pretty thick so cutting them out was a pain, paper was getting torn etc, would use something thinner.





Need to make more mountains quickly tomorrow and sort out something with lights... And also somewhere to put the information

Interviewed two more people, Sarah Temple and Sian Cook, very helpful people.

Went to letter press with an idea "oh this won't take long" BUT it did take LONG and came out crap... Having trouble coming up with things to experiment with + not really doing enough for the SVR.

What I did do is this

Using type with texture for more impact, effect all that jazz...

And this, which is looking at how many pages are content in magazines, did Wired magazine (kind of):

Did my first interview via the good old phone yesterday with this guy:

www.davidberman.com

Wasn't too happy with it, made notes tho so be better with the next one (Monday with an LCC lecturer I think). It puts a bit of meat on the bone, his answers were re-iterations of what his book says, fair enough I spose...

I made some notes for next time:

Ring on time (I did ring on time but he must have a banjaxed clock or something and seemed a bit peeved that I had rang a bit late which I hadn't)

Make sure the questions are relevant and concise and be prepared to explain them further

Try not to um and err because then you sound like an eejit

Listen up for things in answers to questions that you can ask more questions about, David seemed frustrated with design education, could have asked more about that

Went to John Balidesari exhibition in the TATE, p. cool the way he uses wall and the canvas to join the pictures, raised surfaces etc, might be (might) something to look into for the infographics. Have to attack the letterpress on Monday, finish up those experiments and also get a screen coated that evening, hopefully it's not pandemonium in the printing lab on Tuesday morning. Need to make up and print from my sketches:

FLICKR

started flickr account

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pearseoshea/

ITC

Contacted David Berman, design guru type ethics person, after reading his book which is fairly daycent... He got back and agreed to answer a few questions, which is good. Going to focus the report on possibly a ref guide for students.

http://davidberman.com/

Second Post

Looked at the book DATA FLOW which is all to do with communicating information in different ways. Looked ok, the text in the book was a bit serious and some of the (most of) the infographics were just so dense, I don't know how some of them were supposed to be followed. I think lots of them were just graphic created by a system or program like Processing and the final visual was the work, not very helpful for people looking for information though...

Took some examples from the book and from other sources like magazines like WIRED and newspapers etc etc, have begun a visual audit (I think) of the examples as a method of research. Will keep the auditing to the scrap books and try to keep notes and ideas into a hard back skecthbook, to keep it organised... And this blog maybe to keep track of developments along the way.

First Post

Blog to keep up to date with developments in das projekts wup wup.

Working on a report that investigates socially aware design projects and for the visual research project prob look into infor graphics, see if that goes anywhere.