Monthly Archives: March 2008

One week of The Guardian: Wednesday

UPDATE: This post has been updated on 05 April 2008.
This visual has been modified from its original version. The logo has been amended, and introduction information has been added.
Well yet another day is complete. When there’s little distraction I really enjoy cranking these visuals out. Looking at it now, in some ways the result kind of […]

Visualisations and infographics

I’m about to start the third visualisation for my One Week of The Guardian series, and I’ve been looking through my research on static visualisations and infographics research. Some of these visuals are really very beautiful, so I’m about to share. Enjoy.

The NYTimes has a nice clean infographic on what the presidential candidates have raised and spent.

Another […]

One week of The Guardian: Tuesday

UPDATE: This post has been updated on 05 April 2008. The original contents of this post can be found in this text file.
This visual has been modified from its original version. The background has been changed (taken from a very light grey to a very dark grey/black) to be consistent with the overall style. Illustrations have […]

Mid term review

Today I have a mid term review, of which the requirements are:

A very short statement about the work
An image of 1024x768 AND 2048x1536 for publicity for the show
Your project work
A presentation about the project including background, contextual and theoretical research, what I am making, how I am making it, why I am making it
Sketchbooks and/or working notes and files
2x printed A2 storyboards

To […]

One week of The Guardian: Interactive visuals

Since I put together the One Week of The Guardian statistics, I’ve been playing alot with sketching up alot of static visuals. I’ve also been playing around with some interactive visuals using the ManyEyes visualisation software. I ended up with some really cool results.

Bubble chart by days, sized by total word count, coloured by categories. Shows […]

Simplification: Hogarth’s Gin Lane

I’ve had this recording for a while now and I think it’s about time to get it posted. Back before Christmas The One Show had a feature on Gin, and in it was an explanation of ‘Gin Lane’, an engraving by William Hogarth, 1751. I’m not going into too much detail on why it was […]