I always do love music! I wish that I could understand to read notes but so far, I can just play a bit of guitar and mostly listening to music. When we got to translate music into data I was excited to imagine how it gonna turns out. However the process was not as easy as I thought. I had a difficulty to find the way of how should I translate it into a data visualisation. Here you can read about polyrhythm and listen to Debussy’s song – The Snow is Dancing.
I tried different approaches from sketch based on the sound wave or based on the right left hands on piano or based on the notes itself but it didn’t work well. So I just listened to the polyrhythm and sort out the song layers by layers. This techniques also inspired by my experience as a girl scout when I had to translate the more into sentences.
In this task, we’re aiming to make a Christmas card for our partner which suits to their taste. So I discussed with my partner, Tatiana, about what she loves from Christmas and what kind of design style she likes. She sent me some pictures of Christmas in Russia that she enjoys and also mentioned about Swiss design style and Kandinsky that she adores.
Debussy’s music notes.Inspiration board.My sketches.Initial design.First draft as a card with black and white which I found interesting.Christmas Card that I sent to people online.
I really enjoy the project and hope to explore more with my design style and colours in the future.
At Unit 2 with Tiz, we learned about creating a data story and a visual from dataset. This class has given me knowledge about many data practices as well as theories to create a good infographic. We explored this task with a dataset about plastic pollution that we could choose by our personal choice to develop further. I chose the dataset about global waste generation and management in many different countries because I thought this is interesting also to see how my country or Germany, where i used to live, generate their waste. The data are also from the same year, 2010, which made me think it more makes sense to compare it in one graph. So I am gonna explain about my process.
Created a mood board as our guideline to get the visual that we want to achieve.This helped me a lot as an inspiration for my graph’s shape and later I adopted the colour from the sea urchins.Later on, I gathered some infographics references and made my sketch.From these datasets, I categorised countries of continents because there are many of them. I also added more data about GDP per capita to highlight high-income countries.I generated the datasets on Raw Graph. All of them are Circle Packing!I found many challenges during the process related to design and how to show the data correctly.
And this is my outcome. This graph depicts the plastic waste management of each country clustered by continent. And shows the plastic pollution impact in the oceans.
This is the feedback from Henrietta: “Lots of information here, one to sit down with for a while, but the density of the text is balanced well with the clear comparison between the continents in the main visual component. Not sure about the circles around the title and line length at the bottom is very long! You seem to have a real affinity with organic shapes – which you seem to be naturally (no pun intended) drawn to. It would be interesting to see you reflect on this perhaps in your writing for Unit 1, does it reflect an interest in the ‘people behind the numbers’ (Lupi. 2017) perhaps.”
I agree with her comments and also I think that I put too much information here as annotations. I would love to practice more as this one was my first infographic so there are so much things that I still need to learn.
I moved to London in September before the lockdown. It’s difficult to find new connections. I mostly spend time alone than I ever did before. During my first week of uni, I didn’t pay enough attention about my needs so I had a sleep problem. Then I realised about the importance of self care. I started to do my yoga practice again combined with another activities that I could enjoy such as meditation, cardio and walking. I gathered my routine data for two weeks, separated it into one week of data with different output. It’s nice to be able trying out some facilities at the studio.
For my first week’s data, I decided to execute it with Intaglio. The legend.
I found that cutting with intaglio technique was pretty much fast. However the printing process takes longer because we need to dip the paper into the water and there are several more steps to make it ready to print.
For my second week’s data, I decided to go with relief printing. The cutting will takes longer but the printing process is faster and we can play around with colours, which is fun!
I booked two sessions so I had more time to cut and did an artwork for my family portraits as well.The comparison of my two weeks of data with two different techniques.I sent this as a Christmas card.
So far I really enjoyed gathering my own data and working with traditional techniques. I would love to explore more when the studio is open again! Kat, Ling and Vito at LCC printmaking studio are so friendly and helpful!
When I looked back when we started this class in September, it’s interesting to know how we’ve grown. It’s just 3 months ago but I feel that I’ve been learning so much than these past years. It’s good to reflect and see what we’ve done so far. That’s why I came with an idea to create a timeline for our Unit 1 journey with Henrietta. She’s been really helpful for this journey. Thank you, Henrietta!
First raw sketch. I was at the library and didn’t bring colour pencils, so I wrote down all the colours.
I always fascinated by flowers, so it’s always cross in my mind in the first place. Based from flower concept, I developed it with art deco style that I also adore.
Art Deco inspiration from 1920
So here you go, my timeline reflecting unit 1 process. I just highlighted our main materials every week and materials that I enjoyed the most. Also I put flowers with words/terms that I learned from that topic. It’s also help me to add more vocabulary, since I am still learning academic english. That’s also the reason why I put “level of difficulty” category. Some texts have many complicated and new words that I never heard before.
The timeline is not finish yet since we still have a long way to go. This flowers keep growing, so do I.
Every time I heard about the word “coding”, I always thought that it’s definitely not my thing because it’s full of numbers and just too complicated. However I always admire people who create creative coding. My feeling was mixed when we first learned P5! Even though we started from the basic but I still found it’s hard to adjust my brain in this programming language. I am still trying to understand this Java Script language but I am optimistic that everyone could do it if there’s a will. Learning a new language is always a challenge, like when I learned german. It was full of tears but now I am comfortable with it. I hope I am gonna achieve that in P5 as well.
After the class, I tried to learn from various sources. I managed to create some visuals and it made me happy to combine graphic design and colours with coding!
This visual I developed from the class with Llwelyn last FridayThis one I learned from creative coding class with Ed from tech lab.
I am going through the concept of (un)certainty based on my first idea that I haven’t posted yet. I am still developing the other outcome and gonna post it when it’s finished.
Once my dad said, there’s a quote from taoist philosophy that our life and fate is uncertain and what certain is only death. I lost my mother last year, so this quote came to my mind when we talked about uncertainty and certainty. This gives me urge to develop further the story between mother and children related to birth and death.
While reading “Data Feminism” book by Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren Klein, I came across a story from Serena Williams, an American professional tennis player and former world No. 1 in women’s single tennis. She announced her new born baby on social media and posted a video which this narration: “So we’re leaving the hospital,” she explains. “It’s been a long time. We had a lot of complications. But look who we got!””
Her instagram followers were happy and congratulate her for the new born baby but this also lead to a conversation, especially amongst numbers of her followers, many of them Black women like Williams herself. Dozen of them started to post their complications experiences on childbirth.
Serena Williams later posted her statement on her Facebook account.
People begun to pay attention in this crisis, including the mainstream media. They found out that there are actually many problems inside the healthcare system for child birth. In the States, they investigated further and found that there’s a fundamental problem: there was still no national system for tracking complications sustained in pregnancy and child birth.
When I looked at the data set for maternal mortality, it has decreased significantly in all over the world from 2000-2017 according to World Databank. But 800 women still die every day – over 300,000 every year – from preventable causes linked to pregnancy and child birth.
After reading the story from Serena Williams, I am curious to investigate more about the maternal mortality rate based on ethnic group. Unfortunately I couldn’t find more specific data then what I found on bbc article. It states that Black women in the UK are much more likely to die from complications surrounding pregnancy and childbirth than white women.
I decided to work based on this limited data. I was questioning why they divide the category between Asian and Chinese? I guess, it might because there’s a huge number of maternal death in Chinese women compare to the average of other Asian women. I think there’s missing data related to maternal death as state in Data Feminism book.
I made a sketch to visualise the data with relief printing, so I also should consider about the details to not be that complex. That was my first time worked with this technique and it was nice to work with something handy and not computer-based.
The printing plate after being cut (left) and my initial sketch (right)
Probably maternal death is not the biggest problem in the world especially in the first world countries. It fallen by around 45 per cent over the past two decades. But still, losing mother or never met your mother since you were born because of the this fate will affects children life, forever.
Learning Excel and Statistic is a real challenge! As someone who always work with pictures, excel tables and numbers could be intimidated. But we’re here to learn and I am happy to get a chance learning it from the start.
Jovan gave us the task to create a visualisation from scratch. I was in group 1 with Martyna and Imy. We got the task to make a graph presenting the percentage of Desktop and Mobile devices. We came out with two stories idea; either comparing the usage based on daily usage (weekday and weekend) or big events. Later we chose to compare it based on big events, that first we thought could be interesting but later we realized that it was probably not a good choice. Why? Because in the end we felt that this topic was not the best for our current abilities and also for this exercise.
So here I am gonna show you the process and case study.
First we gathered all the big events in 2020. It looks interesting, isn’t it?
Secondly, we made some sketches. These are sketches that I made.
This one is more simple version
And then we searched the page view trend on Wikipedia Data for each events. After that, we calculated the mobile percentages.
This part took so much time, so we tried to reduce the events from ten to four. But still, it didn’t help regarding the time we had. In the end, we decided to just choose one event, which is Black Lives Matter, that has more distinction between the usage. After the death of George Floyd in 25th May 2020, there was a big increased in both desktop and mobile view.
The graph shows an increase of mobile usage.
Overall, we’re not satisfied with our outcome. We hope that we could try again with another approach and aim to create a better story. We emailed Jovan about that and still waiting for his advice.
I think it’s not too bad that we faced this difficulties so we can learn from this experience.
After the design research methods session on Wednesday, I felt so inspired by the topic “Manifesto”. It wasn’t the first time that I heard about this term. When I was still working in advertising agencies, we also made many of manifesto work. But to be honest, I never fully understand about the concept and theory behind it until I had this session.
Cited from an article written by Julian Hanna from the Atlantic, 2014,”So begins the preamble to that ur-manifesto of the avant-garde, F. T. Marinetti’s “The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism” (1909). The manifesto appeared as a paid advertisement on the front page of Le Figaro; the next morning it was birdcage liner for most of its readers.”
Merriam-Webster describes manifesto as a written statement declaring publicly the intentions, motives, or views of its issuer. The group’s manifesto focused on helping the poor and stopping violence. Below I post two manifestos that inspired me.
Yvonne Rainer: No Manifesto, 1965.Dunne & Raby: A/B, A Manifesto, 2009.
Manifesto has been created by many individuals and groups: artists; designers; brands; and many practitioners. In my opinion, it’s necessary to create a personal manifesto as an ethical code for every human being. After reflected my self development and my career as a graphic designer, this is how I want to manifest my attitude and motivation through my practice in data visualisation.
I agree that creative process for everyone will be different. There are many aspects that influence the process. One of them is our background area of expertise. Even for me as a graphic designer who has been working freelance is also gonna be different comparing to another graphic designer who work in a company/big team. In this post, I want to share the whole creative process that I normally going through whether I work for my personal project or with clients.
First sketched that I created during the class.
The first thing I do to create a personal project is to find the insight through my own experiences or topics that I am concern about. I could relate it with what Kolb (1984: 38) said in Friedman’s book “Creating Design Knowledge. Kolb’s definition of learning as “the process whereby knowledge is created through the transformation of experience” offers a useful perspective.
I found that discussion also would always enrich my idea. If I work with a client and they already gave me the insight or idea of certain topics, I just jump the process to next stage, which is research.
The process cycle after being simplified.
Every project has its own journey. A simple topic doesn’t mean that it always take a short design process. There are many internal and external aspects that can affect it.
In the end, my creative process always involve people feedback to prove that my design has answered the brief or certain problems. It’s also necessary to help me to get a better understanding and more accurate result.
Reforming research in Indonesia: Policies and practice was jointly carried out by the Communication Research Centre, University of Indonesia (Puskakom UI) and the Centre for Innovation Policy and Governance (CIPG), and in collaboration with the Asia Research Centre, Murdoch University, Australia (ARC). It was funded by Global Development Network (GDN). The study discusses the barriers in doing social research in post-Suharto Indonesia, within the context of Reformasi and higher education autonomy.
I got the data from the research team and created a basic infographic that looks not too formal even though it discussed about a hard topic. Since the brief was to create a basic style of infographic, so my process was also quit simple. I analysed the bar graphs and simplified it into different icons and colours. The aim was to create a clear and simple infographic to be first presented in the GDN conference in Jakarta, 2017.
