Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Design III - Information Design Project: Inspiration Dump

Colours & Culture : ALWAYS WITH HONOR
Student Advice Poster : ALWAYS WITH HONOR
Wolfmother Timeline : ALWAYS WITH HONOR
I think it's safe to say I really like the style AWH has when creating information graphics. It's a step up from the usual circles and lines, but even when they are working along those lines it's saturated and pleasing to look at. The icons become much more detailed and specific but still have a graphic, straight, and clean enough quality to be read as information design. It doesn't come off as crowed or over-loaded, but pleasantly organized.
The characters if you will also have a cute quality to them which is also a personal preference in my past work but something I grapple with in order to create serious design so as much as I enjoy looking at this I'd really have to have to think about how I want my audience to perceive my autobiographical info-design poster. These, as I said before, are very successful in their ability to relay information; combining "cute" and intelligent in a talented way.

Nicholas Felton's DAYTUM : My site
Kelly McGovern @ DAYTUM
I assure you I will become so addicted to this. I'm going to play around with the layout of displays and whatnot.

Transparency: What Email Is the Most Popular? - A collaboration between GOOD and Atley G. Kasky

Transparency: The Change in Carbon Emissions : A collaboration between GOOD and Lamosca
Some real nice, clean information design that caught my eye when browsing Transparency. High impact and informative with the use of simple shapes and lines in a intricate way. Great use of graph and guide key.

Otto Neurath’s Universal Silhouettes
Very simple way of portraying identity in terms of race.

The typographic approach to information design. Very powerful indeed.

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