Share a wonderful schedule design

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Schedule of performances for the Theater der Künste (Theater of the Arts) 2007/2008.

Desc: Based on a q&a with all of the people involved (from students, teacher, stage technicians and management), we created some (hopefully) interesting and sometimes irrelevant statistics to mix (as a second layer) with the nitty gritty information about all the plays and so on. On the overview side we connected all the involved people over time. After the last «spielplan» you could track who was involved with with play…
Client: Theater der Künste, Zürich
Collaboration: Julie Joliat
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Timeframe: 2007, 2008; Subject: printed matters, poster
Permanent Link: http://work.unfolded.ch/fold/time/2007/#alles-wird-anders
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Colors: 4c/4c CMYK; Print: offset; Size: 148 x 210 (folded), 594 x 841 (unfolded)
Typeface (principal): Plantin; Paper: Munken Lynx, 80gm2; Edition: 5000
Publication: Typography 29, HarperCollins, 2009; Thnk: Cmyk, Feierabend, 2008;
Recognition: Certificate of Typographic Excellence, Type Directors Club, New York, 2008;
Nominierung zum Designpreis der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Frankfurt, 2008

Small Multiples

Small multiples is a good solution when dealing with some kind of information.

in tufte's book, a good example is the chart about where did Chinese poets born in different dynasties.

the most important information stands out and the multiples show the constant change

happening. Seeing the multiples side by side lets the viewer see change and also it makes the information more clear and easy to follow. less important information was designed in a light grey color and it helps the viewer know the surroundings but it doesn't take from the main idea or concept.

I found this chart online, which shows several dimensions of air pollution in China. by looking at the small multiples one can see the change and progress of pollution.

Envisioning Information 12-35

Today I read an instruction(Chinese version!) of a manual camera nealy 2 hours, and didn't figure out how to take a picture with it. The texts and illustrations are so confusing and can not communicate.

Information design can not be more important.

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Reading Envision Information p12-35

I ♥ the stereo illustration on page 17, I think it is amazing because it does not only increase the amount of the data, but turns 2D to 3D, it increase the number of dimension by simply using two 2D images.

The example on page 16 indicate a "grave sin of information design" – directing attention more toward display than to the information it expresses.

When designing with information, I think the designer have to ask what the reader need to know and what they don not need. and make sure the important information grab the attention first. I think this is why information design usually do not have much decoration, because it needs to remove all the unnecessary information and focus on the one it want to say. If not, the design may cause confusion.

After read the charts from p 21-25, I believe that great graphs&charts based on great data.

The timetable for Java railroad line on p24-25 is great. It is in a flat form but contains so many information that can hardly explain by words. And it is not difficult to read and understand although it looks complicated.