Continued research into info graphics - Chad Hagen

I really like the layout of Chad Hagen's work and how his lays it out. I specifically like the colours that he choses and how well they work together to create a finished looking piece of work. I think I'd like to take inspiration from his work and somehow work it into my own to help me represent the data that I intend to show for my series of info graphic pieces of work. 

     

Chad Hagen - Info graphic posters

I wanted to get a better understanding of what I wanted my info graphic posters to look like so I researched artists and game across Chad Hagen, a graphic designer. I like the colours that he uses in his info graphics to represent data, I also think they do a good job of standing out from each other making the information being displayed is clear. 

The way that he sets out his data is also another thing that I like about his work, it's not set in the normal, boring lay out he's set it out and made an actual visual piece of work which is pleasing to the eye. 

How far is it to Mars? David Paliwoda and Jesse Williams.

Continuing with my info graphic research I came across this motion info graphic piece of work by David Paliwoda and Jesse Williams. The motion graphic piece shows you how far it is to mars using pixels giving you an idea of how far away mars really is.  

http://www.distancetomars.com

IDEA 1 - Info graphics - research - UIC London Language School

For my first idea which is a series of info graphical posters I decided to do some research into info graphics itself. I came across a range of them but one of them stood out to me the most and it was this one from the UIC London Language School. I like the colour choices for each subject as it works well with the selected subject and it works well by highlighting the specific pieces of information for each poster. I also think the layout to the posters work well in displaying the information. 

Info graphic idea - Chris Harmon - Oil'd

                   

While thinking about making an info graphical piece of work I came across this piece of work by Chris Harmon. If I was going along the lines of making an info graphical piece of work I think I'd do it similar to this. I like the animation that is documented and how it's documented with the clever colour scheme and flowing animation. 

Moments in Music - Brendan Dawes

I was really interested in how Brendan created these pieces of work, these three pieces were made from music by three bands based in Sheffield. Using written software, he collected frequency data from the music and depending on the frequency of the music it would create spikes in the shape. From the 3D data it would then be 3D printed to create a physical object, which would be a hand held representation of the song. 

EE - Digital City Portraits - Brendan Dawes

Brendan Dawes was commissioned to create digital portraits for each city from gathering millions of data from social media sites from which they interacted about events that happened in their everyday lives. The data collected from different types of subjects throughout social media such as twitter, each colour represents different interactions such as tweets, favourites and hashtags. When the data is collected they start to create an image from a system which makes the image overall unique. I like this idea and think it's very creative, I would like to see if I could use this technique in my own work somehow.

Brendan Dawes - Breathe

                   

I attended a guest lecture who was hosted by Brendan Dawes, I liked this video as he explained to us that the lights inside the ball represents the speed and motion of the current air quality in Beijing. The steady speed of the lights shows us that there is good quality air while the faster and quicker shows us how bad the air is.