Analog Data Visualization for Storytelling
Planning the Drawing’s Underlying Architecture
A course by Stefanie Posavec , Designer, Artist, and Author
Joined October 2021
Joined October 2021
About the video: Planning the Drawing’s Underlying Architecture
Overview
“In this lesson, you will learn how to determine the underlying architecture for your drawn data visualization. The underlying architecture is the structure that will hold your whole visualization together! ”
In this video lesson Stefanie Posavec addresses the topic: Planning the Drawing’s Underlying Architecture , 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
“ Planning the Drawing's Underlying Architecture In this lesson, I'll be walking you through how to plan out your drawing's underlying architecture. Your visualisation's underlying architecture is based around how you use the position or location visual variable to organise all of the graphic elements that you're using on your page. There are five main ways that data can be organised across your page. The common visualisation methods and charts that you may have seen out in the world can also be grouped under these five categories. Let's look at what these categories are. There's a handy ac...”
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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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