week seven – thursday 12 september
Red Bull Party Visualisations (CleverFrankie + Byborre – 2017)
During a party in Amsterdam, guests were given a special bracelet (designed by Byborre) with a sensor that would collect data about their experience in the club (Coded by CleverFrankie). It collected information about what part of the club they were in, movement, temperature and heartbeat. At the end of the night, when the guest gave back the bracelet, they were given their own print of data art created with the data collected throughout the night.
During the night this data was also presented to the guests on a large screen in the main stage as live visualisations.
Personally, I have chosen this precedent because of the visual colours and contrast in the visualisations (both digital and paper). In my output I wish to use an engaging and relevant colour palette to elevate the design as this one has. I am also interested in the way that CleverFrankie used data to create a unique design for each guest.
OddityViz (Valentina D’Efilippo + Miriam Quick 2017)
The project visualised data from David Bowie’s 1969 track Space Oddity on a series of ten engraved vinyl records with accompanying posters, plus a movie image piece. Each 12-inch record visually deconstructs the track in a different way: melodies, harmonies, lyrics, structure, story and other aspects. The designer in this project was Valentina D’Efilippo accompanied by researcher Miriam Quick. This data visualisation won the ‘information is beautiful awards’ in 2017.
A possible idea that I had considered for my output was to visualise songs through colour and imagery (photographs). This would be a very personal interpretation of each song. In order to include the aspect of data and code in this output I would need to do something similar to OddityVis, by visualising the sound of the song itself and that data, rather than just what I picture when I listen to my favourite songs. Still a possible avenue however.
Planet Earth (Federica Fragapane + Chiara Piroddi 2016)
The book provides a new and innovative narrative of our world to the children, depicting it with the tools of infographic and data visualisation, combined with colourful illustrations.
The book has been created by Federica Fragapane – Information Designer and Illustrator – and Chiara Piroddi – Psychologist, Expert in Developmental Neuropsychology. The combination of the two different professional figures allowed to work on a project extremely focused on the accessibility of the information to a young public and at the same time on the creation of a visually evocative storytelling tool.
I have chosen to include this precedent as an inspiration as to how I could present data and measurements of things/people in an illustrative way that still includes a representation of the data itself. A possible avenue I am considering doing a booklet with measurements of people (not sure what of yet), each page a different person and a different designing response to the data (measurement) of each individual.
Coding for Creative Practice 