Analogue interactive infographics
One project at this year’s Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design’s exhibition The Problem Comes First caught my infographic eye. Florie Salnot’s Healthy Pregnancy: redefining the experience was full of interactive infographics, interactive in the analogue – paper, scissors, glue, string…
Visual methods for explanation and education
This afternoon I went along to the V&A to see Isotype: International picture language. Beyond just the icons for which they were so well known it showcases examples of work from the different periods of Otto and Marie Neurath’s careers,…
Design Research Unit
DRU doesn’t exist any more but it is an organisation I have always held in high esteem. But until now I’d never really questioned why. I think it’s because of its name which is functional and direct and that the…
Bespoke museum tours III
Johnson Banks – a graphic design studio I’ve admired for years for their witty, intelligent designs – has just done for the V&A what I imagine Tate Britain were aiming for in my previous blogpost. Both are based on the…
Bespoke museum tours II
Now you can design your own tour of selected works of art in Tate Britain, share it, save it, print it and take it with you. I’m guessing this is still a fledging idea – and the UX isn’t great…
Art and infographics
Being someone who likes to discover the reason for everything I liked the idea of art having its colour or form because of an underlying set of data. That said, the 2D work felt a little restrained. Maybe that’s where…
Decode
As I’m coming to realise the inexorable rise of all things interactive means I must embrace programming be that by learning some (I’ve signed up for the Processing course that’s running alongside this exhibition) or collaborating, or both. Regardless it’s…