Word Clock fro Mac, PC, iphone

Word Clock for Mac, PC, iPhone from Simon Heys on Vimeo.

More Infographic

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What is Complex Narrative?

Complex narrative structure is used by authors to add interest by complicating the story.There are several authorial methods of achieving this.

So in summary, complex narratives are used by authors to tell stories in interesting ways and may involve one or more of the following:

* flashbacks

* dream sequences

* repetition

* different characters' point of view

* multiple plot lines converging at the end

* flash forwards

* different time frames

* pre-figuring of events that have not yet taken place

* circular plotting where we are led back to the beginning

* backwards story telling, where the denoument is shown first and explained
through the plot

Source from Willie Meikle's Blog

More Visual Research for Infographics: BLOG

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Infographic Keys/Legends

I like how there are keys or legends on the sides to depict different aspects of the information.

Interactive Literature Tool

"Textour" is an interactive tool created by Tim Walter for analyzing large body of text.
Design Corner Blog

Stefanie Posavec “On the Map”- 04.02.08

Stefanie Posavec, Graphic Designer from London, United Kingdom










Notcot.com:Archive
Hic Sunt Dracone Link

Guidelines for Infographics

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Inspiration for using Infographic

"Forbes magazine calls them "charticles". Newspapers call them "infographics". Some journals call them "art". Whatever the label, writers must call on the power of charts, tables, maps, and diagrams to tell their stories."

A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words

"Infographics come in six basic types: fever chart, bar chart, pie chart, table, map, and diagram. Content drives the form. In other words, select the style of infographic that best tells the story."

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Narrative Infographics

Not only am I looking for existing narrative infographic but also studying how emotions/feeling can be conveyed in the form of infographic.
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Two Directions: An Exhibition or Decoding a Book/literature

1. Exhibition: "A World without Words"

A exhibition for displaying the themes of everyday struggles of dyslexics - time, sequencing and navigation -- in forms of infographics (life size). In attempt to create an experience for non-dyslexics and designers. It would be a dyslexia awareness campaign.


2. Infographic: Decoding an literature

Creating a visual infographic to depict a literature. Thinking about bridging the gap between dyslexia and design, infographic as a form of visual language can bridge this gap by decoding readings for dyslexics which they have difficulties with.

Choosing the second direction => Decoding a literature/some long text/writing.

Existing Awareness Dyslexia Design

"Everything In Its Right Place" is an exhibition put together by Dyslexia Foundation and typographer, David Carson, for raising awareness.
Felixlobelius.com

MASSIVE Visual Resources on Inforgraphics and Pictograms

Apparently, on "Designing The News.com" infographics and pictograms are researched and provided a wide range of helpful resources.

Please go to this LINK

Animated Infographics

Royksopp's music video "Remind Me" 2002
Animated Inforgraphics by a French company, H5
YouTube


A French energy company, Areva, commerical also by H5
YouTube


John Lennon interview infographic movie
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Telling Time

Time.
How do we tell time? Where? what? why? When?




NOOKA watches from New York. Tell time with dots and bars.


Eyes Wide - James Turrell and Tadao Ando at Benesse Art Site Naoshima (above: Turrell’s Open Sky at the ChiChu Art Museum)Looking at time through the skylight


Telling time the old fashion way by professor Len Berggren at SFU ("C" parking lot)
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Timeline: organizing information with lines, bars and colours





Timelines for visualizing Bible (events)
Arc diagrams


Tristram Shandy, includes a set of sketches indicating the non-linear path of a well-told story



DOTS diagrams



Interactive Olympics Medal Count Map
Year (meter); Countries (circles); Number of Medals (size of the circles)
New York Times

Information Design as design strategy

Quoting from Edward R. Tufte, Visual Explanations

"This book describes design strategies - the proper arrangement in space and time of images, words, and numbers - for presenting information about motion, process, mechanism, cause and effect."

Book information
Edward R. Tufte Website

Thinking about information design, I see it as the visual language or strategy to use in conveying my concept. It can be used to translate dyslexia struggles into design inspirations.

Now, my theme/content of the visual guidebook would have to be generated from the struggles of dyslexia.

From there, I thought the content can generate the visual form.

Researching context

Researching for my direction of creating a series of visual guidebooks:
(here are some of the keywords)

+ information design
+ infographic

Research links:
InfoDesign Resources
Visual Language
The Feynman-Tufte Principle
Automating the Design of Visual Instructions
The Visual Language of Number
The Language of Graphics(papers)

My Direction (Starting Visual Explorations)

My direction is to create a standard/guide/inspiration for designers to connect with Dyslexia.
Visual language is the key for my design.

Direction: A Series of Visual Guidebook
Under different categories: navigation in time, space, sequences, directions.

Initial sketches of my idea: (coming up)

Visual explorations includes information design, ..... (also coming up)

After Presentations...

After my presentations on Thursday Oct 9th,2008, I have got some useful feedback as to where my grad project might be going. I understand there are a lot of problems with what I have proposed due to the amount of research I would need to do later.

Of course, I am feeling more confused and lost as always but I hope asking what I really want to do for my grad project is important. I understand that what I have proposed maybe unrealistic or even hard to attain at this time.

So I think it is time to set some personal goals to change my perspective and help me through this project:

1. To have fun
2. To demonstrate my designing ability
3. To keep my project simple and creative and yet convey the original concept
4. Be consistent

The Main Goal

To bridge the gap between Dyslexia and design so that designers would consider alternative ways to facilitate efficient communications.

For that being said, I think visual communication design is a powerful tool in facilitating communication in an unconventional way. The conventional way is our language system that deals with symbols of words that governs how we think, learn and act. The problems with dyslexia actually shred some light to the functionality of visual communication design. How should visual communication facilitate information in a manner that speaks to not only dyslexics but also to non-dyslexics (everyone else)? Should there be standards/guides for designers to use?

I think that's what I should do for my grad project.

Back to where I was LOST

---------The bridge between-----------

Dyslexia-----------and----------- Design

-------------------is the-------------------

------------------SIGNS!-----------------

So the solutions should go from there.