Information Design

You can’t design without type. However, yon can use only type (or mostly only type) to create breath-taking designs. In fact, many graphic designers and artists take exactly this route to communicate their ideas through their works. The results are sometimes crazy, sometimes artsy, sometimes beautiful, but often just different from things we’re used to. Thus designers explore new horizons and we explore new viewing perspectives which is what inspiration is all about.

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/02/25/breathtaking-typographic-post...

Data presentation can be beautiful, elegant and descriptive. There is a variety of conventional ways to visualize data - tables, histograms, pie charts and bar graphs are being used every day, in every project and on every possible occasion. However, to convey a message to your readers effectively, sometimes you need more than just a simple pie chart of your results. In fact, there are much better, profound, creative and absolutely fascinating ways to visualize data. Many of them might become ubiquitous in the next few years.

So what can we expect? Which innovative ideas are already being used? And what are the most creative approaches to present data in ways we’ve never thought before?

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/08/02/data-visualization-modern-app...

Summer blockbusters and holiday hits make up the bulk of box office revenue each year, while contenders for the top Oscar awards tend to attract smaller audiences that build over time. Here's a look at how movies have fared at the box office, after adjusting for inflation.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/02/23/movies/20080223_REVENUE_GR...

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s “Change We Can Believe In” and “Stand for Change” banners. The typophiles among you have realized that the “change” font Obama’s campaign uses is Gotham. Feature page

…my teachers in told me that if I were to do what I did, I would make a lot of money and be the only one doing it, and that I would never know it if I were any good or not. john maeda [resnick, 2000]

This weeks Map assignment is to be handed in before class on the 12th of February.

Hand in must be in the form of an upload to this site.

8:15 - 8:45 

Lesleyanne Gillespie

John Lynch

Dearbhla Starrs

Sarah Louise Mclaughlin

Kieran Temple

 

8:45 -9:15 

Paul Friel

Emma Robinson 

Adam Drummond

Ciaran Lamberton

John Doherty

9:15 - 9:45

Philip Lawson

Sean Brown

Sean Cartin

Catherine McCormick

Coaimhe Morrison

9:45 - 10:15

Catherine McCann

Eadaoin Nugent

Hugh Law

Catrina Graffin

Christian Martin

This post has links to a selection of branding style guides from different organisations.

Webex Branding Style Guide

Very complete and toughtfully designed.

Everything you ever needed to know about tags.

 

http://www.gotapi.com/