Carly Hitchcock — Design blog

10 months ago

Information design — mapping the same data in multiple ways

Designer Lauren Manning set out to design the ‘perfect infographic’, by mapping out the same information (meals eaten in 2020) in over 40 different ways.

Unfortunately aesthetics/design is very subjective. Apparently there were a wide range of different responses to each infographic Manning had created.

This is a problem I have quite often — how do I know which style of infographic/map will be the most appropriate for the data!? It tends to differ depending not only on the data, but on the audience, the medium, the format etc…

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http://www.fastcodesign.com/1664136/infographics-of-the-day-an-entire-year-of-meals-mapped-more-than-40-ways

10 months ago

Loving… Domenic Lippa lecture

http://visualexploration.tumblr.com/post/6799214396/lecture-series-1-domenic-lippa-from-pentagram

Summarized lecture notes from Domenic Lippa (Pentagram partner) for the Postgraduate Graphic Design Department of the London College of Communication.

I first heard of Lippa through Harry Pearce, speaking at Semi Permanent in 2009, and have been in love with his (and Harry Pearce’s) simple clean work ever since. They would’ve made a formidable team when they were Lippa Pearce!

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Insights from Domenic Lippa:

-Work with people you like

-Keep things simple (me — agree!)

-Experiment with things

-Work with people that are better than you

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London Design Festival 2011

London Design Festival (previous year).

HEAL’S Identity and packaging

Stanmore Implants:

11 months ago (1 note)

Can’t wait for… We Can Create

We Can Create is the new annual design conference organised by The Church. It’s held in late August and I can’t wait!

I’m very excited to see:

-Kris Sowersby

-Stamen Design

-Hort

-Morag Myerscough

I think Hort will be fascinating, because their work is so eclectic and rather strange at times, and I would love to know the reasoning behind it. I’m hoping I’ll also learn a bit about German (design) culture, because I would love to work in Berlin one day!

I’m also very excited for Hort’s 2 day workshops before the conference. Hopefully I’ll be able to make it to one of them because they sound fun! (Apparently no technology allowed…)

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I remember going to my first design conference, Semi Permanent in 2009, and I was surprised by what I learnt (so young!). It was far more interesting and influential to hear about designers lives/journeys/mistakes/processes than to just look at pretty examples of design. Harry Pearce turned out to be a particularly interesting speaker, while Carson was…underwhelming!

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11 months ago (1 note)

Massey University’s College of Creative Arts graduate book (2010 edition) is now online.

http://issuu.com/coca_massey/docs/exposure_2010

I haven’t seen all of them, but I think it’s the best designed book, with the best work so far! Hope 2011 is even better :)

1 year ago

Beautiful work by North for Barbican

Clever use of italic futura, set on a slight angle…

Minimalist = win! Every time.

1 year ago

Posters

Ok, considering I never seem to post on my “general design” tumblr blog (too busy with uni workbook tumblrs), I should probably start posting the stuff I find interesting.

Sam Weber (illustration) posters. (not sure who designed them though):

Always-amazing work by The International Office (Wellington — respect)

Strategy Design (Christchurch)

Great ongoing work for the Christchurch City Gallery

1 year ago

Exhibition design — Bibliotheque

I’ve always admired Bibliotheque for their cohesive, systematic, modular exhibition design projects.

One of the best examples was the design for the Super Contemporary Exhibition (Design Museum, 2009, London)

The 3-deep wooden ‘panels’ were designed to appear like a bookshelf, and used both as a timeline, and a systematic way of presenting different types of information.

I love the way this design maximizes the wall space available.

They also cleverly brought through the spatial system into the graphics system: as seen below with the exhibition catalogue, which exhibits the same aesthetic, and the same ‘layering’ of information.