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In my effort to try to add month labels to the previous design I came up with weird one-letter abbreviations of the month (remember this version's in Spanish).
With month labels, the superfluity of twelve colors became evident and in an epiphany I came to realize that not only two alternating colors were all the design needed, but also that they lent themselves naturally to a most elegant way to show month-ends. It all came to me remembering that date handgame and it is the single feature I'm most proud of. (Notice how here I hadn't realized yet that bluing the 31 would be an elegant extra.) The division between up and down rows became slightly uneven but that was a small price to pay for the clarity and elegance the change brought.
Another great change brought by the use of only two colors was using highlighting instead of symbols to mark Wednesdays. The design suddenly looked much clearer.
The month abbreviations, however, proved universally disliked. I had to find a better way to label the rows and the next design was my answer.
Infographics of car's making of process demonstrates all production stages from conventional metal sheet to a finished car
The Spanish version works better than the English one because the one-letter abbreviations of its daynames have no repetition besides Tuesday (Martes) and Wednesdays (Miercoles), and Wednesdays are magically replaced by the month. On the other hand, the two Ts in the English version (Tuesdays and Thursdays) can easily led to simple errors but I haven't find a way to correct them.
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Hay una version en Ingles (con instrucciones, explicacion, critica, y archivo fuente) aqui, una version mas elegante (sin los dias de la semana) aqui, y otra aun mas elegante (sin los numeros de las columnas grises) aqui.
hive project
Photographs by Stefan Gutmann
hive is an interactive light installation floating over water in the park behind Frankfurt's opera by students from School of Design Mainz for the light festival Luminale 2010.
Project website: luminale.fh-mainz.de
Num país com dinheiro de menos e regras de mais, a saída lógica é simplificar os negócios para criar empregos. Um estudo inédito dá pistas de como diminuir a papelada infernal. Revista Época, edição 1004 - Créditos: Marco Vergotti (infográfico), Luís Lima, Marcos Coronato e Rodrigo Capelo (texto)
Well, it's all about being mobile. I flew so many times I could probably get to Ruzine from any point of Prague being braindead. But it's just me, and what about others? (:
Data is taken from the Prazska Integrovana Doprava leaflet from the metro
Months as Mondays! It looks so obvious now, but it took a lot of fidgeting with the previous design to realize I could embed the label within the row's cells. Ultimately, Wednesdays would prove a much better row to embed the labels in.
Another important change is the darkening of even columns in the numbers section to help the eye move vertically and the increasing of contrast between Wednesdays and weekdays. Also, I managed to fit the year of the calendar in lightgray numbers right after the 31.
Besides the narrowing of the month rows, this is pretty much as evolved a design as the more compact ones that followed it and some people still prefer this one for its arresting square harmony.
See the next design.
I was so proud of the previous version that I started showing it to friends and family. All of them liked it, but my aunt Yola said something important: "It's a real pretty calendar, but maybe only for people who like to think--and you know how lazy some of us are."
Those were precisely the words I was trying to avoid. A calendar is a cognitive crutch or it is nothing and I had set out to create a calendar. It had to cater to the lazy! It should encourage laziness at every opportunity, that was its raison d'etre!
So a little demoralized I searched for ways to make the design clearer. I found two important ways. The first and most important one was to narrow the month rows. It greatly reduced the vertical space the eye had to travel and in so doing, greatly reduced column confusion.
The other great aid was labeling the weekday cells, as the next design shows.
On the other hand, the compactness and elegance of this design impressed me a lot and in trying to further them I pursued a different branch of the design, which led me to erase some numbers.
See ‘Lady with the diagram’ on the Eye blog. Florence Nightingale on Crimean War mortality, 1858 – infodesign in Eye 82.
Num país com dinheiro de menos e regras de mais, a saída lógica é simplificar os negócios para criar empregos. Um estudo inédito dá pistas de como diminuir a papelada infernal. Revista Época, edição 1004 - Créditos: Marco Vergotti (infográfico), Luís Lima, Marcos Coronato e Rodrigo Capelo (texto)
Num país com dinheiro de menos e regras de mais, a saída lógica é simplificar os negócios para criar empregos. Um estudo inédito dá pistas de como diminuir a papelada infernal. Revista Época, edição 1004 - Créditos: Marco Vergotti (infográfico), Luís Lima, Marcos Coronato e Rodrigo Capelo (texto)
Matéria infográfica produzida para a segunda edição de Um Só Planeta da Época Negócios. Infografia: Marco Vergotti. Textos: Martina Medina
Num país com dinheiro de menos e regras de mais, a saída lógica é simplificar os negócios para criar empregos. Um estudo inédito dá pistas de como diminuir a papelada infernal. Revista Época, edição 1004 - Créditos: Marco Vergotti (infográfico), Luís Lima, Marcos Coronato e Rodrigo Capelo (texto)
Updated the seasonal calendar for 2009.
See the simple version here.
Print at 300 dpi, fold on the vertical lines, and tape the ends. For any particular month, just fold it flat so the month is on the left. The color of the month matches the last day of that month (April, June, September, November in grey have 30 days, February in white has 28 days, and all the other months have 31 days).
To see the finished product, here's the front, and back.
The colors are for the seasons:
Green - Spring
Yellow - Summer
Orange - Autumn
Blue - Winter
The small numbers are the Federal holidays:
Thursday, January 1 - New Year’s Day
Monday, January 19 - Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Tuesday, January 20 - Inauguration Day
Monday, February 16 - Washington’s Birthday
Monday, May 25 - Memorial Day
Friday, July 3 - Independence Day
Monday, September 7 - Labor Day
Monday, October 12 - Columbus Day
Wednesday, November 11 - Veterans Day
Thursday, November 26 - Thanksgiving Day
Friday, December 25 - Christmas Day
A bit late, but here's the Roll Calendar updated for 2010.
Inspired by the simple elegance of the "cal" program on Unix.
Print at 300 dpi, 180mm x 50mm. Fold in half and tape the ends.
You should end up with a little calendar exactly the size of a business card.
(Cube with LOGO)
Carlos Simpson Design Studio, Brand Identity, Logo / Commercial - London, United Kingdom.
Carlos Simpson is a Strategic Designer, Artist, Self-thought Musician, and Author in London - United Kingdom.
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See Olympic graphics watch 2, eyem.ag/MWF1KY – infographics, illustration, ironic accuracy and competitive armchair Olympics.
In a way, this is almost an inevitable evolution of this design but few people liked it. I myself am ambiguous about it. On one hand, it fits the most date data into the least ink. On the other, it seems paradoxically more cluttered (I think because of all the suddenly activated negative space).
What ends up redeeming it is focusing on only one month row (say, April) and realizing it's a new infograph of sorts, intriguingly boxplotish, for a month's daynames.
See ‘Taught from a new angle’ – Oliver Byrne’s Elements of Euclid, 1847. Infodesign history by Alexander Ecob in Eye82
Matéria infográfica produzida para a segunda edição de Um Só Planeta da Época Negócios. Infografia: Marco Vergotti. Textos: Martina Medina
Based on the painting of Pablo Picasso "Acrobat on the Ball". So, four basic Tropes(defined by G. Vico) in Semiotics are: 1. Metaphor -- Similarity despite difference (explicit in the case of simile): I work at the coalface == I do the hard work here; 2. Metonymy -- Relatedness through direct association: I'm one of the suits == I'm one of the managers; 3. Synecdoche -- Relatedness through categorical hierarchy: I deal with the general public == I deal with customers; 4. Irony -- Inexplicit direct opposite (more explicit in sarcasm): I love working here == I hate working here.
You had to print the designs to really grok them. It wasn't only that holding them in your hands was a very, very nice feeling, but rather that Excel 2007 couldn't handle perfectly the small sizes I was using and would display all sorts of slight, but crucial, deviations onscreen (deviations that would be magically cured on paper).
A poster created to inform the viewer about the works of Marc Newson, an internationally acclaimed designer.
As seen on Kottke.
Print at 300 dpi (ie: 2 inches high), fold on the vertical lines, and tape the ends. For any particular month, just fold it flat so the month is in the top-left corner. The color of the month matches the last day of that month (April, June, September, November in red have 30 days, February in green has 28 days, and all the other months have 31 days).
To see the finished product, here's the front, and back. Also, here.
My non plus ultra in graphic simplicity, this is simply the previous design without the numbers in the even, grayed columns. Most people haven't liked the ellipsis but it works for me. What fascinates me about it is that, together with the absence of dayname labels, it makes the finding of a date's dayname an almost pre-verbal quest, a spatial matter rather--shape, position, and color working together to create meaning.
I tried to improve on the design's elegance with mixed success in this version.
Infográfico sobre o esenho "The Simpsons" de Matt Gorening. Desenvolvido para a disciplina de Infodesign. Ilustrações feitas por mim no programa Inkscape.
From Doogie Horner's article on Fast Company: www.fastcompany.com/1692957/facebook-profile-picture-flow.... Shared by Dani Markowitz
Carlos Simpson Design Studio in London, United Kingdom
(Logo).
Photoshoot / Commercial - London - Carlos Simpson is a Strategic Designer, Artist, Self-thought Musician, and Author in London - United Kingdom.
Source: www.youtube.com/@carlossimpson/about
► www.carlosimpson.com/about-carlos-simpson/
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In this photograph is the Artist, Designer Carlos Simpson, London United Kingdom.
Carlos Simpson is a Strategic Designer, Artist, Self-thought Musician, and Author in London - United Kingdom.
Source: www.youtube.com/@carlossimpson/about
► www.carlosimpson.com/about-carlos-simpson/
► @carlossimpson
► @carlosimpson