Analog Data Visualization for Storytelling
Finding Visual Inspiration
A course by Stefanie Posavec , Designer, Artist, and Author
Joined October 2021
Joined October 2021
About the video: Finding Visual Inspiration
Overview
“To begin the design process, I will discuss a few starting points for finding inspiration when building the visual language within your data visualization. ”
In this video lesson Stefanie Posavec addresses the topic: Finding Visual Inspiration, which is part of the Domestika online course: Analog Data Visualization for Storytelling. Explore the narrative potential of data and learn to create engaging imagery that tells a story using analog materials.
Partial transcription of the video
“ Finding Visual Inspiration In this lesson, I'll talk about ways of finding visual inspiration as you start the data visualisation design process. The first place that you should always start when looking for visual inspiration for visualisation is starting with your subject matter. The way that you would do this is you would take your subject matter, do lots of visual research on it, and then, begin to break your subject matter down into its basic visual variables. For example, if you had a dataset about roses, then you would be able to pull visual variables from the rose. Looking at a ro...”
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Stefanie Posavec
A course by Stefanie Posavec
Stefanie Posavec is a designer, artist, and author who specializes in data visualization. She studied graphic design at Colorado State University before going on to complete a master's in communication design at Central Saint Martin’s, University of the Arts London. There, for her final project Writing Without Words, she explored ways of visualizing writing styles in literature, which inspired her to pursue a career in book design. After her project went viral, she left her job in publishing to focus on freelance work in the data visualization field.
With over 10 years of experience, Stefanie has worked with clients like the V&A, Wellcome Collection, and National Maritime Museum. She was also Facebook’s first Data Artist in Residence and has received awards for her book project Dear Data. Postcards and sketchbooks from the project are also held in the permanent collection of MoMA, New York.
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