Archive for the 'data visualization' Category

While being sick and covert under my sheets with my mac on my lap, and a large box of tissues, I thought that this is a nice opportunity for updating the blog a bit.
First, I found this great railway visualizations made by zero per zero, “City Railway System”. They explain that the subway line map [...]


A pdf with a selection of my work can be downloaded from the following address www.nathalik.be/portfolio_nathalik.pdf
(low resolution)


My research in the visual language of maps has narrowed to a more precise topic…borders. There are different ways of looking at and understanding these frontiers.
A border can be a human made division (visible, invisible or even imaginary), for political, cultural or social differences, between regions or they can be natural as sea, mountain, river. [...]


UFO map

12Feb08

UFO’s spotted in the month November, 2007 (only in North America…of course). Even the graphics tell us something about the reliability of this information, through a childish and ugly representation.
Just to show that designers do put their opinion and doubts in their designs, which means they have a huge impact on how the message is [...]


Wanda Wanders did some decent research on the graphical language used in metro maps. Out of this research she selected the 12 best designed metro maps in the world. And this time it isn’t the London Underground who’s getting all the credits (third place). The study is based on 7 criteria to calculate the greatness [...]