Another Double-Shot of Inspiration
Another Double-Shot of Inspiration
Super Sundry Vol. 7: these colors will tickle you happy
In this edition of Chartography: an upcoming Dogpatch SF event (and online) before a parade of dazzling delights Let’s go!
🗓️ Thursday Feb 29th: I am appearing LIVE! in conversation with Rob Saunders at the Letterform Archive to discuss “glorious data graphics.” It will be an evening of insights and delights from the world of information graphics. The event is both in-person and virtual (and free!)—let’s pack the room:
🎙️ Stats + Stories podcast just released an episode with me:
Good data visualization can catapult a news story or research article from ho-hum to extraordinary. A new book series is exploring the careers of information graphic visionaries. Episode 315
We shipped a dozen Visionary books since its release, including a full set to China! Everyone who holds these books loves them, but I don’t trust me, see them for yourself. Discounted prices on our books with $5 domestic shipping persist at Visionary Press.
Another Double-Shot
“We can see more when we look across and between designs.” That’s what I wrote in the first installment of inspiration double-shots. Mamma mia, here we go again.
With one exception, color overflows the following aesthetic pairings. Zoom-in, see them on a big screen, and visit the websites of all these artists and designers filling our world with joy.
Left: Audrey Smit digital mural on Brittany farmhouse. (She also paints actual murals too.) IG thislittlestreet
Right: “Oak” by Mattias Adolfsson. blog
Left: Oil pastel quote by Julia Ockert. You can commission one for $186. shop
Right: “Swiss darning” repair to torn old sweater by visible mender Flora Collingwood-Norris. Website
Left: Display of colors, Album des installations les plus remarquables de l'exposition universelle de 1862 à Londres (1866). BnF
Right: Leopard paint on hand-cut wood by illustrator and muralist Stevie Shao. IG stepfrae
Left: Detail of axidraw artwork by pavlovpulus. shop
Right: Ad for Honda Prelude MkII (1983-1987).
Left: Detail of room corner from Le Château Laurens (or what happens when you are the sole heir of a colossal fortune and blow it all on a Belle Epoque castle). website
Right: Comic by Alex Gamsu Jenkins. website
Left: “Shoot High, Aim Low” magazine collage by Ben Stafford. website
Right: Map from Hungarian illustrated magazine Szovjetúnió (Soviet Union). Attila Bátorfy described it: “This map aims to show how the biochemical composition of the Soviet Union's soils relates to different diseases—for example: iodine deficiency=goiter.” See our previous installment interviewing Bátorfy about Hungarian graphics.
Left: “Rippled surface”—a linoleum cut by M. C. Escher (1950), which he described in Grafiek en Tekeningen: “Two raindrops fall into a pond and, with the concentric expanding ripples that they cause, disturb the still reflection of a tree with the moon behind it. The rings shown in perspective afford the only means whereby the receding surface of the water is indicated.” more
Right: “General Arrangment of the Nervous System” from Modern Biology (1947) Internet Archive
Finally, a parting double-shot trackback to two more of Stevie Shao’s colorful creatures. (Oregonians, you can see them in-person for a few more days at Nucleus, Portland.)
In the next edition of Chartography, I plan to present some new work related to the Academy Awards.
Onward!—RJ
About
Data storyteller RJ Andrews helps organizations solve high-stakes problems by using visual metaphors and information graphics: charts, diagrams, and maps. His passion is studying the history of information graphics to discover design insights. See more at infoWeTrust.com.
RJ’s recently published series, Information Graphic Visionaries, a new book series celebrating three spectacular data visualization creators. With new writing, complete visual catalogs, and discoveries never seen by the public. His first book is Info We Trust, How to Inspire the World with Data., is currently being remastered for a new edition.