Drawing
Drawing is perhaps my most favourite thing to do on a daily basis. I particularly love making characters and expressing my weird artistic fixations on paper, but I feel like I also neglected other forms of drawing. Today we looked at a presentation about other various ways we can communicate through drawing. Technical. Digital. Virtual. Musical. Scientific. Graphic. It is more versatile than I thought. Based on that, we were given the task to create an infographic of our thought object that visually communicates what it's about.
Thought Object Infographic Challenge
Utilising drawing in a completely different way than what I'm used is an interesting challenge itself. The information in my book "Making" is not something I can quantify, all it talks about is 140 projects and the process behind them. So I had to figure it out.
I started doing what some of the people around me were doing, researching statistics and drawing a Tetris like infographic, but the statistics I found had practically nothing to do with my thought object itself, therefore the graph felt pointless.
I then browsed onto Heatherwick Studio's website and saw how their projects are put into four categories- Buildings/ Spaces/ Infrastructure /Objects - which is finally something relevant. These 50-ish big projects were all outcomes, influenced by the individual projects discussed in my book. To translate this information I drew a table of four sections containing each project title; laying out the website as a table. Whilst this is better than my first graph in concept, it looked so confusing mainly because I had to separate each title with lines to avoid jumbling up the words, just for it to look jumbled anyway because they were small. My classmate jokingly said it looked like a brick wall. Thank you Syd.
A brick wall makes a great infographic representation of my thought object, metaphorically and logically. It's not clear which of the 140 projects in the book is more significant that the other, however each of them are build the foundation of Heatherwick's work, contributing to the betterment of the future. I quickly drew a somewhat 'aesthetic' brick wall because I only had 20 minutes left, and wrote the names of the projects in each brick.
Present
Like the last time we all presented our work, it was insightful to see the various outcomes throughout my class, and I think the idea of presenting our work infant of our class will help us gain confidence speaking publicly.