Eemeli Nieminen Type & Design » Information Design

Generative Visualisation Poster

admin — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 10:00:55 +0000

I participated on a workshop, that focused on using the generative visualisation software NodeBox 2 in typographic design. The assignment was to create an A1 typographic poster around the theme “A Social Type”. My approach on the concept, was names. The poster shows circa 7000 of the most common surnames in Finland in alphabetical order. The size and color saturation of each name varies according to their prevalence, bringing the most common names up from the pattern of rarer names. A task that would have been insanely tedious to do by hand. Take a closer look.

Vuosaari 20 Years, Web Page Illustration

admin — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 10:34:58 +0000

The City of Helsinki commissioned a web page from Kairo to celebrate and review the 20 years of urban developement of The Vuosaari district, in eastern Helsinki. My part of the work was to illustrate the map used as the interface for navigating through the history of the developement, and the icons for each introduced project.

Information Visualisation Posters

admin — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:00:27 +0000

Posters done during information design workshop in TaiK

A Battle In The Margins: The assignment was to study the 2008 U.S. presidental elections, and my approach was to find out what happened to the 1% of all popular votes that were casted to other than the two main candidates. Resulting an map of the division of the non-major party popular votes per state, and a presentation of the speculative electoral college of the non-major party candidates. But how did it go?. Well if both Obama and McCain would have been disqualified, Ralph Nader would be the presidet of the United States!

My Bad: The size of the pie chart represents the popular votes share of the states total votes. However, the percentage is linked to the diameter of the pie chart, not the area: increment of one percent doubles the diameter of the pie chart, not the area, as it should. So the visualisation is actually biased: the differences between 1% and 3% seem larger, than they actually are. A lesson learned.

The Most Fantabulous Magic Tricks: Another assignment was to design a 50×70 poster illustrating some action that is familiar to you, so I choose a topic near to my heart: cheap tricks.