conversations here spurred me to try something new this week - I've been working on putting together some ideas into a form I'm not so sure about -
I'm drawn to structural analyses, so much so that I have often forgotten to address content, and ended up with content i didn't want. So I've been trying to get more directly to content lately.
don't know if this will make sense at all. it's somewhere in the same world as tufte and stephanie brooks. i'm no designer, but i love information.
check it out here, if you're not sick of me yet.
Posted by kevin at May 27, 2004 04:00 PMkevin - I like the idea, and I think it could be a funny, informative project. To make it more Tufte-esque, though, I think you'd have to get away from the linear PowerPoint format and more towards a total information map, so that you're graphing change of your own attitude over time, and color-coding Christian Right attitudes against your own, and so forth. Although the matter-of-fact PowerPoint format is funny too. To use that structure, I think your narrative would have to be less directly confessional -- that is, not in the first person -- and more businessspeak.
For instance, for a not-too-relevant link, here's the PowerPoint anthology of literature.
This hasn't been too coherent. More tomorrow.
Posted by: seth at May 28, 2004 03:53 PMyeah, you're right - I'm guess I'm more of a David Byrne user of powerpoint than a tufte in this work so far.
i think i want to keep it personal to start, but I want the rest to overtake it eventually. It's more of a skeleton right now, I'll get back to it after I fulfill some other responsibilities first.
thanks for the input!
Posted by: kevin at May 30, 2004 05:22 PMkevin,
i think this is a great project. i agree with seth that the information has the potential to naturally build its own, more organic structure. particularly because there seems to be so much overlap between subtopics- an opportunity to stress your position. though, i understand that you are probably trying to hold to a more minimal grid. i really liked the lists- it is actually very personal.
are you from south carolina?
Posted by: alan at May 30, 2004 09:12 PMKevin,
I am a fan of Tufte. So the mere mention drew me in. It has a nice mix of simplicity while conjuring up the complexity of the "situation".
I like the start with the personal perspective. It also calls to mind a child's progression through to maturity. I am excited to see how it expands as you continue to work on it. I would be interested to see this as a chart on the wall or a flip book attached to the wall. Some way to display it that seems appropriate to you. This also seems to relate to the tree images and concepts that have been mentioned before. The tree having spiritual, archetypal, informational, and other hats that it wears.
As I was going through it the presentation really was resonating with me. It had humor, a human touch, yet it also had a system that it was using to relay information that was very matter of fact (scientific if you will). This mix of theoretical and the everyday, "the dog and his feces" seems to be something to be balanced within this project of ordinary aura.
Kevin,
I am a fan of Tufte. So the mere mention drew me in. It has a nice mix of simplicity while conjuring up the complexity of the "situation".
I like the start with the personal perspective. It also calls to mind a child's progression through to maturity. I am excited to see how it expands as you continue to work on it. I would be interested to see this as a chart on the wall or a flip book attached to the wall. Some way to display it that seems appropriate to you. This also seems to relate to the tree images and concepts that have been mentioned before. The tree having spiritual, archetypal, informational, and other hats that it wears.
As I was going through it the presentation really was resonating with me. It had humor, a human touch, yet it also had a system that it was using to relay information that was very matter of fact (scientific if you will). This mix of theoretical and the everyday, "the dog and his feces" seems to be something to be balanced within this project of ordinary aura.