Information Graphics: Transforming the Mundane, Pointless & Necessary

1. Jaime Van Dubs
“Poster project announcing a lecture by a visiting designer. Graphical environment emphasizes Tufte’s expertise in the analysis and critique of information graphics and statistics. “
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2. DixonBaxi, Simon Dixon and Aporva Baxi
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3. David Johnson
“Songs in RGB.”
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4 – 7. Unknown

8 – 9. Unknown, for Good Magazine

10. Tyler Lang, for Seed Magazine
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11 – 14. Nicholas Felton
“[This is] his own Annual Report project, which visually represents his time and activities for that past year. Each year his Annual Reports have attracted more and more attention, and perhaps as a result, Nicholas has taken each past report to new heights. This year is no different. From the books he has read to the places he has been and the music he listens to along the way, each piece of information has been laid out beautifully in the form of charts, graphs, and even his own version of an atlas map.”
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And if all this isn’t enough, see eerily detailed breakdowns of almost anything you can imagine at wolframalpha.com. They just need to assign graphics to each topic, and this site will rule the world in five years. Seriously.

Harry Potter, Only Better

Feast your eyes on these fabulous cover re-designs of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series. Needless to say, if these covers had been published instead, I might have actually read the series by now.

I know, right?

See more of this style here and here. It’s incredible stuff.

Halleyulia!

Yulia Brodskaya is amazing. A Russian-born illustration major, she now works out of London crafting what are called papergraphics. These crisp, clean, tantalizingly tactile images are stunning.

“I’m constantly experimenting and evolving,” she says, “always pushing my style in new directions: my greatest passion is to explore the ways of combining illustration and typography.” See her entire portfolio, including classic illustration and design pieces, at artyulia.com.

New Masters of Poster Design

This book is huge.

It’s packed with dozens and dozens of incredible posters, each profiled under an individual or a studio. You’ll see work from Little Friends of Printmaking, Patent Pending Design, Cyan, Fang Chen, Studio Boot, Thinkmule, and Modern Dog (Seattle representing), all packed in a lovely book where even the cover unfolds into a poster.

Here’s what the author has to say:

“The loss of a medium that served as a perfect canvas for creativity simply could not be tolerated. A determined group of designers once again turned to the poster for personal work and as an outlet from more restrictive media; their goal was to prove the poster is still a powerful tool in communicating their clients’ messages. The resulting groundbreaking has brought the medium back to prominence.”

Trust me, you will love it.

A Lesson

If you are overtly into design

and past revolutionary art movements as we are,

then you will be familiar with the Dada movement of 1916 (approximately)

and a name on which this post focuses: Kurt Schwitters.

Whether you’re familiar with the movement or not, the most that can be known and understood about it is that it had no meaning, was dedicated to art for art’s sake, was a rebellion against the war and began in Zurich with (notably) French and German writers and artists. The thought was to be a non-artists, producing non-art that had no meaning. To better understand or further confuse yourself, lookup Marcel Duchamp.

Schwitters’ worked ranged from poetry, painting, sculpture, design, and typography but he was best known for his collages.