(via Color as Data: Visualizing Color Composition | Brain Pickings)
Data viz superheroes Martin Wattenberg and Fernanda Viegas have taken their visualization magic to the world of fashion photography. Their Luscious project distills the color and light of fashion photographs and ads in glossy magazines into abstract compositions.
“To create the images in luscious, we began with a series of magazine advertisements for luxury brands. We then used a custom algorithm designed to extract “peak” colors from any picture. A random arrangement of concentric circles fills the plane, representing the essential colors of each region. The resulting image hides context and representation and lets the viewer concentrate on pure color.”
Color codification dot drawings by artist Lauren DiCioccio. To make each painting, she lays a sheet of frosted mylar over a magazine page and assigns a color to every letter, with numbers as shades of grayscale, then applies tiny dots of paint over every character on the page according to the color-code.
“Making the paintings is a lot like solving a cryptogram,” says DiCioccio, “and the result is a legible blur of dots in the form of the article’s layout, a kind of Braille for the color-inclined.”
Also see other examples of color as data visualization for magazines and art.
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Japanese Typography: Hiragana stack. Kiyoshi Awazu. 1981
Some typefaces and design work by Jonathan Barnbrook.
Exocet
Mason
Bastard
Infidel
“Designers, stay away from corporations that want you to lie for them” - Billboard, 1991.
The Little Book of Shocking Global Facts (by Jonathan Barnbrook).
The 17th Biennale of Sydney campaign, 2010.
"I hate people who don’t read. I hate people who don’t cook, or know anything about music. I couldn’t work with anyone who only goes to McDonalds. I want people who know movies, who know music, who read books. As you know, not all graphic designers are ‘multi-dimensional.’ They don’t read, they don’t do anything else, and I couldn’t work with those people. I need team people who have general knowledge because that’s what we do."
Erik Spiekermann AKA my heart and soul
MILKBAR
A very nice logo identity here for Milkbar.
There are thoughts flying around my imagination about what a “milkbar” entails that make me want to throw up a little bit…this logo, nevertheless, is super appealing.
I wish I know who this work was by! But it looks like a tourist photo and I can’t seem to track down a website for Milkbar itself. Wah!
(via passionsanddistractions)
