Link to Flickr Page: https://www.flickr.com/photos/115986378@N03/
Micro Page: https://www.flickr.com/photos/115986378@N03/sets/72157640922857563/ Macro Page: https://www.flickr.com/photos/115986378@N03/sets/72157640920267095/
Experimental Photographs
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Micro Photography Project
These are my 12 finalized images for the Micro Photography project.
Macro Photography Project
These are my finalized 12 images for the Macro Photography Project. 
Image and Data Visualisation: Inspiration
image found adrialindquistblog.com 
Riots in Kiev, image found on tumblr. 
Christmas ride, image found abuethe.deviantart.com 
Ferrara ::1, image found miskerkey.deviantart.com 
Waiting for Better Days by Matthias Haker.Macro Micro Photography inspirations from Pinterest
Micro Photography
References found: http://www.ephotozine.com/article/microphotography-tips-and-information-23075Macro Photography
Golden Ratio
About the Golden Ratio: The Golden Ratio can be illustrated within special dimensions of Sprials, Triangles and Rectangles where the ratio of the length of the short side to the long side is .618, was noted by ancient Greek architects as the most visually pleasing rectangle and its dimensions were used to construct buildings such as the Parthenon. (reference found on Pinterest) Golden Ratio in Photography. 
Golden Ratio in Cinematography 
Taxi Driver, Robert De Niro, 1976.Image and Data Visualisation
Interactive Multimedia Design page
Project One
The first project for this semester is a photographic one, we want you to present six images in each of the categories below, that is twelve images in total. However, for each of these images you should expect to take 10, 20, 30 or more photographs before you end up with something you are happy to submit for assessment. You should present all of your images in your Flickr account making sure your final six in each category are clearly labeled, you could perhaps use a separate set for the final selection. The two sections are:
Macro
Photograph a landscape, cityscape, seascape, etc taking on board the principles you have researched and learnt into consideration. You can expect to take a lot of images from which you should choose six of the best which will be presented in your Design Journal. All of your images should be uploaded to your Flickr account with a clear link from your Design Journal to the set. Consider the story behind the images, what are you trying to say to the viewer?
Micro
Photograph a series of small, individual items. These may relate to your Macro series to continue the sense of a narrative or they may run as a separate series. Consider how these items are photographed, retain a consistency in your approach. Follow the same guidelines as those for the Macro series.
Rule of Thirds
Golden Ratio and Rule of Thirds How to think about your image? 
Illustration
Image & Data Visualisation: Lost In Books
Link to my Flickr Illustration Page: https://www.flickr.com/photos/115986378@N03/sets/72157642065041504/
Design a series of three book covers
To choose ONE genre from the list below and research the subject.
- Horror
- Romance
- Crime & thrillers
- Science Fiction & fantasy
- Children’s classics
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPQ-8Kty8X4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKVcQnyEIT8 Children’s Books
Image & Data Visualisation: Realms of Fantasy
“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don’t we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we’re partisans of liberty, then it’s our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!” ― J.R.R. Tolkien “All children, except one, grow up.” ― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan “A children’s story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children’s story in the slightest.” ― C.S. Lewis
Three Fantasy Books
- The Hobbit (or There and Back Again) J.R.R.Tolkien
If there is one thing I love it would be a good escapist story. The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien, published in 1937, is just that kind of story: Bilbo Baggins lives a quiet, peaceful life in his comfortable hole at Bag End. Bilbo lives in a hole because he is a hobbit—one of a race of small, plump people about half the size of humans, with furry toes and a great love of good food and drink. Bilbo is quite content at Bag End, near the bustling hobbit village of Hobbiton, but one day his comfort is shattered by the arrival of the old wizard Gandalf, who persuades Bilbo to set out on an adventure with a group of thirteen militant dwarves. The dwarves are embarking on a great quest to reclaim their treasure from the marauding dragon Smaug, and Bilbo is to act as their “burglar.” An unlikely hero who is called upon to challenge the odds, against a ferocious fire-breathing dragon. What more could you want than that?
Understanding Tolkien and the Origins of Middle-Earth
2. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, C.S. Lewis Another route into the realms of fantasy, is not knowing what you may find through a wardrobe. C.S. Lewis’ The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, published in 1950, sees Lucy Pevensie take a trip through a magical wardrobe into the realm of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe specifically focuses on gluttony. Edmund’s descent into the Witch’s service begins during his frantic consumption of the magic Turkish Delight. Since this is enchanted Turkish Delight, Edmund cannot be held accountable for his gluttony as if he were overindulging in ordinary candy. The real sin occurs when Edmund allows himself to fixate on the Turkish Delight long after he leaves the Witch. Edmund’s consumption of the Turkish Delight may also be a reference to the sin of Adam and Eve, when they ate from the Tree of Knowledge. The battle of good and evil is fought in the magical world of Narnia, in the most enchanting fantasy novels ever written.
Understanding C.S. Lewis and the Origins of Narnia
3. Peter Pan, J.M. Barrie Second star to the right and straight on ’til morning will take you to a world of mermaids, pirates, Red Indians, and all it takes is a little sprinkle of faith, trust and pixie dust. J.M. Barrie told the Lewelyn Davis boys – the original Lost Boys – lots of stories, and these tales are where Neverland and Peter Pan came from. He came up with the name ‘Peter Pan’ by putting together the name of one of the boys and the Greek god of nature and shepherds, Pan – a lively and very naughty god with the legs and horns of a goat who is, of course, forever young: Peter Pan, which was alternately titled “The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up,” was first performed in London, England, on December 27, 1904, at the Duke of York Theatre. It has since become one of the most widely performed and adapted children’s stories in the world. It is also Barrie’s best-known work, though he was a prolific author writing in a number of genres. Critics believe that one reason Peter Pan was successful from the first is that Barrie combined fantasy and adventure in a way not done before. The play offers a fresh means of storytelling that appeals to both adults and children. While children enjoy the imaginative story and flights of fancy, adults can relate to Peter Pan’s desire to forego mature responsibilities and live in the moment. What the story Peter Pan describes is death; our fears of death and our wishes to overcome death to be immortal; however, it is also a fantastic escapist story about living in the moment, faith and trust.
Understanding J.M. Barrie and the Origin of Peter Pan
Fantasy (and its meaning)
There were quite a few ranges of books that I had thought about; I made a list of six possible books, and tried a few rough ideas to start off. Though, each book on my list was very good and this left me torn between which to choose; I struggled to reach this final conclusion that is listed above. My reason for this selection is simple; I love good escapist fantasy stories with heart, bravery and meaning; a good fantasy story, for me, has to have a strong connection to real life, but, living outside the boundaries of realities rules. Ultimately I think of fantasy stories as intriguing fun. Fantasy to me always asks the question, “what if ?”(or “let’s pretend”). It is also the dreaming of a better place; and what it does is, it tries to find meaning and explain human beliefs/ life. Fantasy is a genre of fiction that commonly uses magic and other supernatural phenomena as a primary plot element, theme or setting. The identifying traits of fantasy are the inclusion of fantastic elements in a self-coherent (internally consistent) setting, where inspiration from mythology and folklore remains a consistent theme. Within such a structure, any location of the fantastical element is possible: it may be hidden in, or leak into the apparently real world setting, it may draw the characters into a world with such elements, or it may occur entirely in a fantasy world setting, where such elements are part of the world. Essentially, fantasy follows rules of its own making, allowing magic and other fantastic devices to be used and still be internally cohesive.
Middle-Earth’s Secrets: Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings
Image and Data Visualisation: Illustrators
August Hall
Charles Vess
Raoul Vitale
Matt Gaser
Scott Gustafson
Greg Couch 
Omar Rayyan
Michael W.M. Kaluta
Donato Giancola
Tony Diterlizzi
Marc Fishman
Image & Data Visualisation: Finalized Book Cover Designs
Inspirations
There were a range of inspirations that led me to focus on these designs. Peter Pan Inspirations
(Image left found: tuesdaymourning) right: Google Search Peter Pan Illustrations 
Anne Grahame Johnstone and adamtrest
Arthur Rackham fairy The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe Inspirations 
Kevin Howdeshell
(Above) Isabella Art – DeviantART and M.S. Corley Illustration and Design 
Random silhouette art found on Google. The Hobbit Inspirations 
J.R.R.Tolkien Illustration Cover and emir0
HarperCollins Publisher’s Collection 2011
Originals Book Inspirations Even though I was very inspired by these original inspirations, I had a change of style; I thought the cover of a book has to be something appealing, decorative and illustrate an aspect of what the book is all about. To have Illustrated that in these styles below would have not interested me in the slightest; for me, I prefer the simpler book cover; if there are illustrations depicting a scene, I feel they would be better off inside the book than on the cover. I feel having an illustration outside the cover depicting a scene in the book, is really like a spoiler alert. I prefer book covers that hint at something about the book, that intrigues the reader, and sparks their imagination. 
Data Visualisation
Image and Data Visualisation: Visual Narratives
Link to my Flickr Data Visualisation Page: https://www.flickr.com/photos/115986378@N03/sets/72157643323376063/ Flickr Data Visualisation Page 2: https://www.flickr.com/photos/115986378@N03/sets/72157644169458092/ Flickr Data Visualisation Page 3: https://www.flickr.com/photos/115986378@N03/sets/72157643323349944/
Will Eisner – “The story form is a vechical for conveying information in an easily absorbed manner”.
Links
- http://tweetping.net/
- http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/07/31/business/20080801-metrics-graphic.html?_r=1&
- http://innovate.whsites.net/
- http://www.gestalten.tv/
Jonathan Corum
What Is Higgs?
(Link: Chasing the Higgs Boson by Nigel Holmes) 
So What is Higgs Boson?
Storytelling With Data
Comic Strips
Daniel Merlin Goodbrey
(Info Found: E-mel hypercomics) My name is Daniel Merlin Goodbrey and everything you see here is my fault. I’m a comic creator and new media lecturer based out of Welwyn Garden City, England. E-merl.com is where I catalogue my experiments in fiction and the comics form. If that all sounds a little dry, don’t worry – I’m sure something horribly violent and amusing will happen if you stick around long enough. 
Image and Data Visualisation: What is Art Direction?
“A principle of identity between content and expression.” – Jan Tschichold
Link: NoisyDecentGraphics. tyepad.com (Written by Ben Terrett, a designer in London.)
Endless Possibilities of Art Direction
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cObeFvQvKSQ
Leonardo Da Vinci
(Reference taken from Zollner, F., 2010. Leonardo. Los Angeles: Taschen) Remarkable, extraordinary, almost always favourable – that is the picture of Leonardo Da Vinci handed down by the writers and critics of the past. They describe a multi-talented, endeavouring, attractive young man, who not only astonished his contemporaries as a visual artist, but was equally impressive as a scientist and a musician. While it was widely known that he also had other characteristics which might have caused concern in those days. But while he was spending time on his researches in areas that are no more than passing interest to art, his inconstancy and unreliability meant that he finished very few of his works; his talent strove so strongly for perfection and he was so demanding of himself, that he started numerous things but then cast them aside again. The Vitruvian Man, 1485 
A page showing Leonardo’s study of a foetus in the womb, 1510 
Da Vinci’s sketches of muscles and skeletons, 1452 – 1519 
William Morris
(Reference taken from Zaczek. I., 2001. Essential William Morris. UK: Parragon Publishing) William Morris was a man of many talents, whose life, and life’s work, made a huge impact on the worlds of literature, design and politics. His many ambitions and achievements expressed a profound commitment and belief in an active creative life for all. Morris experimented with every lecture and poetry. He established the famous design company, Morris and Co., where he enlarged upon the skills he had acquired as an architect to embrace the arts of stained glass, embroidery, wallpaper and furniture design and tapestry. The Brothers Grimm (1857) He made a number of other, sporadic attempts in the field. There is, for example, this single-page specimen, which features part of a story by the Grimm Brothers (The Iron Man). It dates back to 1857, when the artist was just 23 years old, and clearly betrays the influence of his recent student days. 
The Sleeping Beauty Tile Panel (1862-65) During the 1860s, Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co. produced three celebrated tile panels based on well-known fairy tales. These were Cinderella (1862-63), Sleeping Beauty (1863) and Beauty and the Beast (1863). The narrative scenes were designed by Burne-Jones, while the decorative border was fashioned by Morris. The boarder includes a marvellous series of stylised swans. Both Beauty and Cinderella are signed by Lucy Faulkner, and it is highly probable that she was also responsible for painting this series. 
It was after this, Morris embarked on four large pictures know as the Briar Rose Series (1884-90). 
Andy Warhol
(Reference taken from 2009. Andy Warhol “Giant” Size. London: Phaidon) ANDY WARHOL THE DREAMS THAT STUFF IS MADE OF by Dave Hickey In 1963, Andy Warhol transformed the artist’s studio from a “lonely garret” into a collective, corporate endeavor.He called it the Factory. Sometimes, on Saturdays, the Warhola family would go to the movies, where, unlike his brothers, Andy favoured the films of Shirley Temple – especially the ones in which the spunky little Shirley, armed with nothing more than charm and talent, guts and gumption, valiantly rescues her parents from penury and danger, in which the factory girl ends up owning the factory or the vaudeville kid, born in a trunk, becomes a star. Ultimately, Andy Warhol would do everything that he saw Shirley Temple doing on screen, except for the singing and dancing. He would become a star, own a factory, and rescue his mother from the penury of working-class Pittsburgh. He would do these things by catholicizing the funny papers he poured over as a child, by translating images of American popular culture into the language of the Byzantine icons. “Crazy Golden Slippers” article in Life, 21 January, 1957 
“I loved working when I worked at commercial art and the told you what to do and how to do it and all you had to do was correct it and they’d say yes or no.”
Beauty Box: What’s In It For you, Harper’s Bazaar Kay McDowel 1957 
“I like boring things.”
Advertisement For Bell System Telephone Service 1928 
Marilyn Lips 1962
Roy Lichenstein
(Reference taken from 2011. Art. UK: Parragon Lichtenstein preferred to seek out his subjects in popular mass media like comics, from which he transformed motifs from trivial to the monumental. In doing so, he used the traditional comic-book technique of Matrix dots, which he applied with stencils. Crying Girl, 1964 
We Rose Up Slowly, 1964 
WHAAM!, 1963 
Image and Date Visualisation: The Principles and Processes of Interactive Design, Jamie Steane
Industry Perspective: Campbell Orme, Moving Brands
links:
Client Hitachi Brief to design the user-facing experience of new innovative interactive software, which allowed for remote collaboration, using a protagonist, gesture-based interface. Agency Moving Brands Solution Moving Brands created detailed user journeys, logic flows, user interaction guidelines and a full user interface, for implementation and build by Hitachi Tokyo-based development team. Interview with Campbell Orme, Design Director, Moving Brands Campbell has worked in design and direction roles for a number of international design agencies including Moving Brands, Imagination, BERG, and Pentagram. Campbell’s specialism is interactive installations, software applications and custom hardware-specific software. After your initial briefing, how did you set about structuring the whole project? There were a number of clear phrases in the project, which spanned: requirements gathering, feasibility, information architecture, use flows, user experience (UX) and user interface design (UI). Can you describe the ‘requirements gathering’ phase? Some of the criteria that we look to summarize here are: ‘How do we succinctly describe the perceived outcome?’; ‘What is its purpose and who is it for?’ This last question is especially important as it’s one of the means of validation that we use for ascertaining whether the brief has been met. What research methods did you use to achieve this? Alongside current trend and market analysis, we worked with our client to get under the skin of what were deemed to be the core features of the software. Equally, as the end product was going to be targeted to a specific audience type – corporate, education and civic environments – we looked at what parallel user-case scenarios, away from technology were relevant. Could you explain the ‘feasibility’ phase? What we needed to know from the outset was whether our proposals were technically achievable, for fear of winding up with a design that couldn’t be realized. As there were third-party technologies being employed for some of the messaging and network feature – each with their own API nuances – we had to be aware of how these functioned. What happened next? The next stage looks at the information architecture: the overall structure of the software. This often uses user journeys and slows, to ensure the given steps within a task are efficient and clear. This in turn leads into UX – page layouts and frames – and then eventually overlap, as we find issues that require us to revisit earlier phases. What this all means is that the fidelity and definition of the end product is continually being refined as the project progresses. What form do user journeys take? These are often a combination of paper prototypes, video demonstrations, or clickable interactives. These all have their individual strengths; for example, we find clickable demos are very useful for website wireframes, where we deliberately package up something that looks very rough to give the client a sense of walking through the end product without them fixating on its aesthetic appearance. What is the purpose of video prototypes? It depends on who they’re for. For the development team, they might be rough -and-ready stories to discuss how to navigate the product – to demonstrate a sequence that’s hard to convey on paper. for the client’s CEO, it may have to look very real, with a level of polish or realism that serves to get top level buy-in for the project. You’re developing a new product, so was it important to use familiar visual metaphors for the user interface? As designers and developers, it’s preferable to lean on metaphors and tropes that are familiar to both end users and us. However, we quickly found that some of these weren’t applicable for this project. Designing a gesture based interface for a six-feet-wide screen presents new design problems, as, for example, people’s height and size come into play. You can’t automatically decide on a menu on the left or right of the screen without acknowledging a left-handed or right-handed bias. How do you visually research a project? One of the first things we do is try and understand the client’s visual tone of voice. How do they represent themselves in the real world? Next, we have to access whether what we are doing has to sit alongside it, or has to work completely within it, or indeed has to be distinct. What visual methods of research do you use? We still use moodboards however they manifest themselves, and we often create mood films with sound and moving image that try to reflect the client’s tone of voice. They are not a means to an end in themselves, but they are effective for setting a project’s tone at an early stage, in a format that is self-presenting and easily shared. Did you undertake a formal user-testing? On occasion, we might engage a third-party user-testing company to organize formal assessments and focus groups within our target audience, but for confidentiality reasons this was less viable with this project. However, we did a lot of user-testing with the client’s development partner – the teams at Moving Brands and Hitachi’s team in Japan – and with people in our studio not directly involved with the project.
Image and Date Visualisation: Using Colour Systems
- http://colorschemedesigner.com/
- http://colorontheweb.com/
- http://www.colourlovers.com/
- https://kuler.adobe.com/create/color-wheel/
- http://pictaculous.com/
- http://web.colorotate.org/
Colour Scheme Designer 
Kuler Adobe 
Pictaculous 
Colour Guide Adobe Illustrator 
The Tommy Portfolio Site
Image and Data Visulaisation: Fundamentals of Digital Typography
Type Measuring 
X-Height 
Old Style, Transitional and Modern Stresses 
Ligatures 
Kerning, Leading and Tracking 
Sans Serif Sans Serifs are ‘Grotesks’ came into prominence at the end of the eighteenth century, partly as an aesthetic reaction to the over ornamentation of serifs and, more practically, as a need for typefaces with greater legibility. Sans Serifs are commonly used for signage and information graphics, and work well on screen. Slab Serif Slab Serifs are characterized by thick block-like serifs. they first came into use at the beginning of the nineteenth authoritative nature. For this reason, heavy slab serifs are used sparingly as they are uncomfortable to read for more than a few lines of continuous reading. 
Image and Data Visualisation: Death Penalty
Project 03 Data Visualisation
For this final project we are to convert a set of statistics from the link below into something that can be easily understood by as wide an audience as possible. Global Death Penalty Statistics A few contemporary visualisations worth checking out are:
References:
I took many elements from these designs as my influence for my final design, through the layout. I was very much impacted with how everything was organised on these charts; that they became the basis for my inspiration and ideas. For my designs I wanted to achieve these to the best of my ability. My Graph Charts In the earliest stages of this project I was confused as to what information on the stats from the webpage we were to put into a graph. I soon found out that it was only the totals section. I used Microsoft Excel for these charts. 
Final charts 
Going back over my charts these were the two that I used for the final design of my infograph. I traced over them and gave them a different colour code. Early Design Attempts
These were my early attempts; I decided to go with my final version because I feel that it give the most information and had a better design quality/layout that I liked.
IDEA 1
I really liked this final design, as it could progress into a web page; my goal for this project was to try and get a infograph that could be developed as a webpage.
Book References
Data Flow
Process of Interactive Design
Some books on Data Visualisation that I found to research.
Image and Data Visualisation: Death Penalty Final Designs
I have also been influenced by the poster designs of Saul Bass, an American graphic designer and award-winning filmmaker. During his 40-year career Bass worked for some of Hollywood’s most prominent filmmakers, including Alfred Hitchcock, Otto Preminger, Billy Wilder, Stanley Kubrick and Martin Scorsese. Among his most famous title sequences are the animated paper cut-out of a heroin addict’s arm for Preminger’s The Man with the Golden Arm, the credits racing up and down what eventually becomes a high-angle shot of a skyscraper in Hitchcock’s North by Northwest, and the disjointed text that races together and apart in Psycho. 
Below are some of the earlier designs I have created for the infographic. I tried various different arrangements for the font and the images; I did not want things to overlap one another in a way that would make my design look messy, and not understandable. 
Edward Tufte
I loaned two books by this artist called Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative and Second Edition – The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. My tutor had mentioned this artist in our tenth week; suggesting we get our hands on some of these books. They are very fascinating reads explaining Data graphics visually, by demonstrating the combined use of points, lines, a coordinate system, numbers, symbols, words, shading and colour.
The third image was partly my inspiration for my original idea for this project. Only with my project I knew I would have to create a better design; something that would advertise and interest my audience. While also having a similar idea as to inform them with facts about a particular topic.
I also found some very useful information on letterform; these images demonstrate the weight and height of a letter, the font style and go into further history about such letterforms as the Trajan Inscription. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8Z6_0VS6Wc These two books also reference many of William Playfair’s graphs and charts; they are very structured drafts with a very interesting design. They are very appealing graphs to look at. 
William Playfair was a Scottish engineer and political economist, the founder of graphical methods of statistics. William Playfair invented four types of diagrams: in 1786 the line graph and bar chart of economic data, and in 1801 thepie chart and circle graph, used to show part-whole relations.
http://www.ted.com/talks/aaron_koblin
Aaron Koblin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4v4XxlfVk3o
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Aaron’s work uses real-world and community generated data to reflect on cultural trends and the changing relationship between humans and the systems they create. His work is part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, the Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A) in London, and the Centre Pompidou in Paris. His projects have been shown at international festivals including TED, Sundance, Tribeca Film Festival, Ars Electronica, SIGGRAPH, OFFF, the Japan Media Arts Festival, and more. He received the National Science Foundation’s first place award for science visualization and two of his music video collaborations have been Grammy nominated. He received his MFA in Design|Media Arts from UCLA. In 2010 Aaron was the Abramowitz Artist in Residence at MIT and he leads the Data Arts Team in Google’s Creative Lab. |
(Info taken from: http://www.aaronkoblin.com/info.html) http://www.aaronkoblin.com/work/flightpatterns/
The Johnny Cash Project
http://www.thejohnnycashproject.com The Johnny Cash Project is an interesting interactive global project, in which anyone from any part of the world can take part in. Through the interactive website participants can draw their own portrait of Johnny Cash to be integrated into a collective whole. There is also a section that allows you to past a certain frames and see the art work, it also give credit to who painted the piece and their location in the world. You can even see the process of how the frames were painted.
The Wilderness Downtown
http://www.thewildernessdowntown.com This website allows browser to type in their home town and address, which it then creates a music video from. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npjTmG-TBHQ
Infographic Final
I decided to create one more idea for the design of my infographic, this time taking only eight countries for both Executed and Sentence to Death results. I used people icons to represent the sentenced to death, and hangman’s nose to represent the executed.
The compass image was taken from GOOGLE on a website called http://forum.girlscene.nl/forum/beauty-health-hair/het-grote-tattoo-topic-104767.7350.html.
