Zhiliang Shen, Nanjing University of the Arts

The traditional graphic design standard books are mostly based on long text content, boring and inconvenient, they are hard to read. Therefore, “Diagram of Graphic Design Specification” make the graphic design specification in accordance with the font, layout, color, graphic design and printing and so on the basis of the compiled into knowledge, using the graphic design let an interesting boring information into visual information graph, facilitate graphic design beginners understanding, memory and access to the basic knowledge of graphic design.

Shijie Chen, Nanjing University of the Arts

Our work is a visual design around the compendium of materia medica, which includes information charts, posters and app interface presentations. We have ten parts in the body of the 10 kinds of common diseases of finishing prescription in the treatment of these conditions in the book, and each medicine prescription contains comprehensive information, through the way of information visualization rendering compendium of materia medica Chinese medicinal materials of various properties. The aim is to combine information design with traditional medicine and promote the traditional culture with the new information dissemination method.

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Vinod Kumar, National Institute of Design

Exodus is an Information-visualization that attempts to uncover the causalities behind the movement of refugees who have migrated from their homes to new lands, from the top 11 countries with a major refugee-crisis, from 1960. Visit Exodus here.

Lin Fan, Arizona State University

The Hubble Space Telescope is a space telescope that was launched in1990, which was named after Edwin Powell Hubble, who passed away 37 years before the launch of the telescope. Why such a high honor was given to this person? You may find the answer after going through his 64-year life presented in the following infographic.

Dima Yarovinsky, Bezalel Academy for Art and Design

I took the content of the “terms of service” of the leading online services that we use on a daily basis (including Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, Tinder etc.). I’ve printed them on a standard A4 wide scroll with a standard legal contract font size and type. After printing this so-called terms, I hanged the scrolls in the gallery at the academy, added the number of words and the time it takes to read each scroll on the floor. My main goal was to emphasize how small, helpless and harmful are we against this giant corporates.

Domitille Debret, Design Academy Eindhoven

A great number of websites have used and are still using the analogy between ships and cars when it comes to the topic of maritime industry’s pollution. Headlines such as : “World’s 15 Biggest Ships Create More Pollution Than All The Cars In The World” are popping up across the internet. In this multiplication of articles, published by many websites around the world, it is hard, even barely possible to find the sources and origins of this calculation.
This online platform is made for gathering the articles all together to allow a simplified entrance into the topic. The website offers three different types of visualization/navigation in order to materialize the links inside this mass of articles and the progressive alteration of information.

S. Del Nero, M. Mezzadra, C. Pazzaglia, A. Riva, A. Zotta, Politecnico di Milano

In the context of understanding the complex phenomenon of violent religious radicalization, the map details the journey of ISIS’ foreign fighters to and from the territories of the Caliphate. In addition to publicly available data about their journey, the map depicts the distance of each country from the destination, its total population, and Islamic population.

Yoko Wong Chor-Kiu, Design Academy Eindhoven

The result of the inspiration from Georges Perec was a variety of experimental mapping methods which I employed to produce a series of 3 works, titled Observing the City. The French author Georges Perec’s works, called An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris demonstrated a scrupulous observation and realistic, unadorned description of people, objects and places, and did not exclude unnoticeable or recurring things. It led me to ponder how to define information design, and focus my mapping research on how to render multi-angle visual narratives by fully utilizing the characteristics of maps. All the surroundings and things I had seen in Eindhoven became a living database all of a sudden.

Johanna Buehler, Basel School of Design

«Many ways lead to Rome», just like my everyday bicycle track. Each morning I choose, between three different routes through the city, to get to university. Each way is, as such, equally exhausting, stressful and annoying. Many crossings, a lot of traffic, and waiting at red lights can make the journey quite unappealing. This work illustrates how many crossings I must wait to turn, or cross the road. Each symbol represents a crossing within a distance of a hundred meters: the center point is myself on my bicycle and the bold line shows my route. The symbols themselfs are not sorted by a particular route so that you can choose by yourself which way you want to go.

Andrea Zaccuri, Arianna Smaron, Basel School of Design

In March 2015 the collective VOLUCE was engaged in the problem of abandoned places in Milano, starting the project SPOGLIE. The research was divided into two phases: first, we collected data and pictures of the areas then, designing the book, we acknowledge how to visually represent them.

Thanks to Basil.js we were able to process 330+ places, managing their metadata, drawings and satellite pictures. The code we wrote captured the information from Google Maps and a datasheet organizing them into the book. Due to the complexity of the information, the use of a programming language was a fundamental aspect to visualize and understand the data. The final outcome is a connection between the architectural space and its digital representation.

Carlo Natter, Tobias Dupuch, Shaën Reinhart, Zurich University of the Arts

With this project, our goal is to visualise the exploration of Antarctica and with it the race to the south pole through data. It takes you on the journey south going further than anyone has ever gone before and tells you the stories of the heroic exploration parties heading towards this unforgiving land. The decades of historical data are explained through interactive visualisations inviting the user to further explore the exploration.

Madhushree Kamak, Chetna Meena, Sayani Sinha, National Institute of Design

Hindu Mythology is a rich treasure trove of legends and fables.Vishnu is one of the Holy Trinity in Hinduism, responsible for protecting the Universe. The legend of the Ten Incarnations of Vishnu – “Dasavatara” is one which is extremely popular in and around India. He incarnates himself on earth to preserve “Dharma”, the eternal order. Each form and its adornments have deep symbolism. Several of these avatars have some basis in history and draw inspirations from natural phenomenon. Research on the origins and iconography of these avatars led us to a deeper understanding of the life and mentality of the people of that age. This project aims to visualize this cultural knowledge and create a platform to engage with it.

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Karin Fischnaller, Mar Ginot Blanco, Design Academy Eindhoven

We, Mar Ginot Blanco and Karin Fischnaller, worked together on translating present day choices into future disputes. Our first project raises a discussion about donation models and their moralities. The different donation models in our home countries Spain and Italy led us to further research on organ transplantation.

Kidney Shortage
The main cause of kidney shortage is the increasing rate of diabetes and high blood pressure. Both diseases lengthen the waiting lists for a kidney donation.

Kidney Overflow
On the other hand, a healthy human being only needs one kidney to live. Why not donating our second kidney? Living donations last longer.

We aim to raise discussion about the urgent need of kidney transplants by offering four (fake) donation models. These four fake models are inspired by real models that are established in different countries all over the world. We want to provide information on how these models work. By using the “switch” button, the reader can access the real information in the shape of a visual journalism platform.