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[ VOYAGER GOLDEN RECORD ]
The Voyager Golden Records are phonograph records which were included aboard both Voyager spacecraft, which were launched in 1977. They contain sounds and images selected to portray the diversity of life and culture on Earth, and are intended for any intelligent extraterrestrial life form, or for future humans, who may find them. The Voyager spacecraft are not heading toward any particular star, but Voyager 1 will be within 1.6 light-years of the star Gliese 445, currently in the constellation Camelopardalis, in about 40,000 years. As the probes are extremely small compared to the vastness of interstellar space, the probability of a space-faring civilization encountering them is very small, especially since the probes will eventually stop emitting electromagnetic radiation meant for communication.
The contents of the record were selected for NASA by a committee chaired by Carl Sagan of Cornell University. Sagan and his associates assembled 116 images and a variety of natural sounds, such as those made by surf, wind, thunder and animals (including the songs of birds and whales). To this they added musical selections from different cultures and eras, spoken greetings in 55 ancient and modern languages, and printed messages from US president Jimmy Carter and U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim. wikipedia.com webodysseum.com
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Carl Sagan noted that “The spacecraft will be encountered and the record played
only if there are advanced space-faring civilizations in interstellar space. But the launching of this ‘bottle’ into the cosmic ‘ocean’ says something very hopeful about life on this planet.” Thus the record is best seen as a time capsule.
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MAGAZINES
PURPOSE DOCUMENTATION
PLANTS
PHOTOSYNTHESIS
INFOGRAPHICS
ZINES
NATURE
SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR
MUSIC
WEATHER
CONTINENTS
NEWSPAPERS
LANGUAGES
RELIGIONS
EVOLUTION HUMAN BODY
THE BODY
EARTH HEALTH
EARTH ARTIFACT
THE BIG BANG
JUNK SCIENCE
ATOMS
SOCIAL MEDIA
FOOD
ORGANS DELICACIES
BRANDS
MONEY
TECHNOLOGY TRANSPORT
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TRADEMARKS
FEELINGS
THE 4 ELEMENTS
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[ CONCEPT GENERATION ]
[ CONCEPT GENERATION ]
ETHNICITYS THE WORLDS FACTS
NATURE
ZINES SCIENCE
RELIGIONS
NEWSPAPER WEATHER
MAPS MAGAZINES WILDLIFE
MAPS DOCUMENTARYS LANDMARKS
POPULATION OUR EARTH
COUNTRIES
DOCUMENTATION
INFOGRAPHICS MONEY AND FINANCES BOOKS
LANDSCAPES
BIRTHS AND DEATHS LEAFLETS
FAMOUS FIGURES/INFLUENCES HEMISPHERE
POSTERS POVERTY
CONTINENTS
'A GUIDE TO EARTH'
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[ RESEARCH ]
[ INFOGRAPHICS ] chosen to look at the visual theme of infographics under the title ‘Earth Artifact’ as I feel it has great relevance and significance for this topic. Our facts and figures are what makes earth and i feel that by showing these in a visual infographic way is a exciting prospect and/or interpretation of the original voyager records.
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Information graphics or infographics are graphic visual representations of information, data or knowledge intended to present complex information quickly and clearly. They can improve cognition by utilizing graphics to enhance the human visual system’s ability to see patterns and trends. The process of creating infographics can be referred to as data visualization, information design, or information architecture. I have
[ CLEVER FRANKE ]
applications and installations that captivate, inform and inspire. They partner with forward-thinking brands, businesses and organisations to develop intelligent and innovative products and services that embrace an increasingly complex and connected world. Each year, Clever Franke publishes a weather chart. In these annual charts, they explore methods to visualize last year’s weather. Clever Franke have a special affinity with the weather; their name is the combination of degrees and celcius.
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C°F is a design agency for interactive information and data visualisations, that captivate, inform and inspire. They partner with forward-thinking brands, businesses and organisations to develop intelligent and innovative products and services that embrace an increasingly complex and connected world. Clever Frankes work shows how they see creativity and innovation as a necessary means for tackling the challenges that our societies face in the digital age. They are a design agency for interactive information and data visualisations,
[ DAVID MCANDLESS ]
see information that might be too complex or too big, small, abstract or scattered to otherwise be grasped. McCandless’ genius is not so much in finding interesting new ways to show data, the actual graphics aren’t the real innovation - but it is the way in which he finds fresh ways to combine datasets with these graphics to let them ping and prod each other. davidmcandless.com informationisbeautiful.net
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David McCandless is a British data-journalist, and information designer based in London. He is also the founder of the visual blog Information Is Beautiful. McCandless began his career writing for cult video game magazines such as Your Sinclair and PC Zone in the late 1980s and 1990s before moving on to work for The Guardian and Wired magazine. Since the publication of Information Is Beautiful in 2009, his information design work has appeared in numerous publications, including The Guardian, Wired, and Die Zeit, and has also been showcased at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Wellcome Trust gallery in London, and at the Tate Britain. David McCandless makes infographics in to simple, elegant ways to
[ DEREK KIM ]
scattered strategically throughout the timeline and complements the surrounding tracks with emotional feedback. These photographs were taken during a music festival in the outskirts of Portland, Oregon and it relates it back to the overall piece by depicting additional experiences of music production. I feel that by looking at this project I have seen an additional way in which infographics can be presented for any given reason. itsnicethat.com networkosaka.com
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I recently came across Derek Kims work on a design website showcasing his poster work. It showed a interesting use of space with typography which caught my eye. When i looked further in to his work i came acroos some of his infographics projects, especially his gobal warning campaign which won him best infographic at the annual Kantar Information is Beautiful awards 2013. With his work for Forage Press asked him to make some of his own music for an article he split the project in to two parts. The first part was to compose and produce a song from scratch exclusive to Forage Press. The second part was to create a unique but fictional interface design that ties music production with human emotions. In addition to visualizing peaks and sound waves, it would also visualize the song’s emotional equalizer. Carefully selected photographs were
[ JACK HAGLEY ]
Is Beautiful. I think his work shows a really simple yet effective way of showing information visually, and it immediatly caught my eye when i saw it. www.pinterest.com www.jackhagley.com
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Jack Hagley is a specialist in infographic design and data visualisation although he is also involved in iconography, illustration, branding, art direction and various other graphic design projects. His work has appeared in The Times, the Guardian and Wired. Jack tells stories with data and makes them look beautiful. Jack Hagley broke in to infographics through David Mcandless by making an infographic CV and sending it to him at Information
[ CONCEPT 1 ] that may encounter them. The posters will be understandable without having to read anything through the use of pictograms and graphs.
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For my first concept i have come up with the idea of creating a large infographic style poster for each continent on eart showcasing the many different factors which lie underneath the continents. For example the infographic posters will include statistics showing population, land mass, popularity of different foods, most spoken languages, etc. I intend for these posters to be easily accesable and readable to any intelligent life
[ OUR EARTH ] extinctions. Although scholars estimate that over 99 percent of all species that ever lived on the planet are extinct, Earth is currently home to 10–14 million species of life, including over 7.2 billion humans who depend upon its biosphere and minerals. And ofcourse all these elements are what make earth ours.
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Ofcourse i instantly looked at what made our earth ours when first assigned the earth artifact brief. s the third planet from the Sun, the densest planet in the Solar System, the largest of the Solar System’s four terrestrial planets and the only astronomical object known to accommodate life. Earth’s biodiversity has evolved over hundreds of millions of years, expanding continually except when interrupted by mass
[ CHERUBINO GAMBARDELLO ]
Naples-based architect Cherubino Gambardella’s illustrations for his projects are beautifully rendered. In an age where the development of architectural ideas is largely carried out using digital technology, it’s lovely to see something so textured, layered, and varied. Mixing a variety of media, Gambardella’s images conjure up visualisations that evoke, not only the built shapes, but the atmospheres, materials, air-quality, traffic, and weather patterns of these urban environments. You get a strong sense of space and the interactions between structures, and there is also a slightly dark, sinister quality that intrigues as much as it engages. I found the way that he uses natural elements as a source for his cretivity interesting. He shows his achitecture in a seperate light from how you would usually see it, by demonstrating other techniques through the expression of earths natural elements.
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[ URTHECAST ]
resolution camera, Theia “hit the market”. There is a page for ordering the imagery but you have to provide your name, email and organization. I fell like the images enlighten people in to what our earth really looks like from a completley different perspective from how we usually see it. The pictures really are beautiful and are not only scientifically intriguing but artistically aswell in every way. The colours, shapes, space, and layout of the images interests me when first looking at them. itsnicethat.com urthecast.com
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UrtheCast is a Vancouver-based tech start-up that installed cameras on the International Space Station, sending high res images of the earth back to its dedicated website. Through the website you can find out when the ISS will pass over your house and so can arrange something to be captured on its cameras, but what was more fascinating is the way that companies and governments might use the data; by monitoring the amount of vehicles in Chinese factories’ car parks for example, economists can make predictions about the country’s output. The UrtheCast service will be accessible online and will allow users to access the two UrtheCast cameras from their homes to examine places or events - One medium resolution and one high resolution camera. In August 2014, Urthecast’s imagery from its medium
[ BRYAN OLSON ]
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The North Carolina-based artist is arguably the master of his medium; a creator of collages so delicately crafted it’s often impossible to tell they’ve been made from hand-cut paper. Though it’s by no means his only concern Bryan focusses a great deal on the cosmos in his work, leaving strange portals into the unknown at the centre of his images or placing earthly objects within inter-planetary scenes. It’s a heady combination that lures viewers in, making them feel like children gazing at a dense night sky or an adult on one hell of a trip.
[ MIKHAIL MISHAINIK ]
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While the man-made beauty of modern day life with the wondrous buildings put up in our cities or the machines we build to make our lives easier, sometimes nature just trumps all of that by being effortlessly amazing. Mikhail Mishainik demonstrates this perfectly with his images of Russian salt mines, which he managed to capture by venturing 650-feet below the city of Yekaterinburg, Russia. The naturally psychedelic mines are stunning with floor to ceiling swirls of earthy browns and oranges, interspersed with greens and rusty purples. Caused by the mineral carnallite, Mikhail has spent over 20 hours exploring the abandoned mines despite the risk of leaking chemicals and landslides. The patterns that have evolved over time are beautifully hypnotic and just the sheer scale of this natural phenomenon is what really boggles my mind.
[ ALEX MACLEAN ]
since being awarded his pilot’s license in the 1970s, and he hopes that his photographs will encourage viewers to consider the impact of pollution and resource extraction on the environment. He explains: “Through sort of abstract and engaging patterns, those things will draw people into it to hopefully think about these issues. It really is about combining art and information. Some of it is sort of subliminal – you can’t quite put your finger on it but it sort of draws you in and engages you.” itsnicethat.com
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I like to imagine that if I were to hop on a spaceship and zoom a distance away from the earth I’d be able to watch all of the inhabitants of our busy planet scuttling hurriedly around its surface like tiny ants. This is extreme, of course, and completely ridiculous, but as it turns out, if you hover at a considerably lower altitude in a plane, and dangle out of the window, you really can make out the traces of activity that we leave behind us. Alex MacLean is a photographer who examines the relationships between people and their environments and his images possess almost revelatory quality. Alex has been leaning out of plane windows to capture his shots ever
[ PRIMARY RESEARCH ]
[ IMAGES ] from all over the world. Images which I felt portrayed earth brilliantly. Colour is proenant throught the images and I feel that although It isnt possible for me to collect a wide variety of images from around the world, the images I have shown for my primary research do the job quite well.
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For primaryh research in relation to the subject ‘ Our Earth ‘ I felt it would be most appropriate to develop a body of images which i have collected over the years showing many different sides to what I see as our earth. The images contain landmarks, views, weather, animals and sights
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[ CONCEPT 2 ] good way of detailing earth and showing any intelligent life what to expect to see if they were to ever enter our planet.
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My second concept is to create a book of abstract images detailing earth just like was done in the original Voyager Golden Record. However i intend for the book to include more modern up to date verions of images best representing our earth with brief description of each image detailing what the image is, where and when it was take, and who by. I feel like creating a more modern, up to date version of the golden record will be a
[ DOCUMENTATION OF INFO ] the earth artifact brief. This is because I feel like different examples of documentation such as newspaper, magazines, leaflets, posters, zines etc are a great way of showing information and processing information. I feel like it could be a really good path to go down in accordance to earth artifact.
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Documentation is a set of documents provided on paper, or online, or on digital or analog media, such as audio tape or CDs. Example are user guides, white papers, on-line help, quick-reference guides. It is becoming less common to see paper (hard-copy) documentation. Documentation is distributed via websites, software products, and other on-line applications. I have chosen to look in to the idea of documentation as a visual idea for
[ DAYZINE ]
[ DAY ONE / DAY TWO ] little zine. I really enjoyed looking through the pages of these two zines as i found every aspect of layout, shape and colour they use interesting. They show a real sense of individuality throught the work and how a collection of work can be shown in an alternative and intriguing way, itsnicethat.com
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DayZine is a self-proclaimed “art project and zine” which has got an ingenious concept – bring a group of creatives together for a 24 hour period and create a magazine inspired by the characteristics of that specific day. What’s the weather like? What’s in the news? What happened to you at the market? It’s all there and more in this spontaneous time-capsule. With each issue being the collaborative result of a whole host of talented creatives coming together over a one day workshop, each zine is naturally inspired by the events surrounding the 24 hours in which the collaborators meet - Bringing individuality to this
[ NABIL SABIO AZADI ]
[ FOR YOU THE TRAVELLER ] The Iranian-New Zealander’s first book is a limitededition hand bound travel guide with a difference in that it’s based on the people who live in certain places rather than the places themselves. And as well as these individuals sharing their stories, they also provide their phone number for anyone passing through that particular region to get in touch should they want and/or need to. The subjects range from metalworkers to musicians and political analysts to farmers but the common thread is this extraordinarily kind and trusting leap of faith they have agreed to. For You The Traveller a fine looking thing too, with some charming illustrations supplementing the entries which include locations as diverse as Tehran, London and Lemnos.
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[ ELIZABETH DILK ]
[ TRENDSETTER ] Elizabeth developed a retail product that brings their concierge travel service to life. Product includes a clamshell containing a photo book, a travel journal, and a credit to personal travel consultations.
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Elizabeth Dilk is a New York-based graphic designer and art director who has a a portfolio that includes web design, packaging, identities and logo marks, advertising, typography and print. Elizabeth’s book for travel conciergeJetsetter feels appropriately elegant while also being engaging, thanks largely to the bold use of imagery. On a separate note Elizabeth plies her trade at Partners & Spade, a studio which describes itself as “a well-intentioned endeavour�. In partnership with Partners & Spade
[ BOAT MAGAZINE ]
in each city, Boat Magazine presents gritty, honest, inspiring editorial through interviews, features, stunning photography, personal profiles, artwork and fiction. Their aim is to act as a great big reset button – changing and updating readers’ perceptions of what the city is actually like. Because they spend a good amount of time in each city, you won’t get the typical fly-by top 10 lists, tourist hotspots or new openings – you’ll actually get to meet the locals, learn some secrets, and be inspired by these cities that are full of life and passion. itsnicethat.com wikipedia.com boat-mag.com
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Boat magazine is a nomadic travel + culture publication that focuses on a different, inspiring city for each issue. From Sarajevo to Reykjavik to Lima, Boat Magazine shines a different kind of light on cities with big stories to tell. The boat team decamps to a different city every few months to immerse themselves in its quirks, customs and culture and then they produce a beautifully-designed, brilliantly written magazine documenting the things they learned. For each issue, they physically move to the focus city for a few weeks setting up their studio and working with locals to create the content. The locals get to decide what they want the world to know about their city, and the boat team work day and night to uncover stories that don’t usually get told. This inside/outside approach to a city keeps the perspectives varied and balanced and the overall content raw and often surprising. Digging deep
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of primary research rather than taking images of irrelevant things or trying to find a input of primary research that wasnt going to effect the rest of my research or future experiments.
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When thinking about how I might gain primary research for the idea of ‘documentation i began to flick through magazines, small zines and books that caught my eye in the library, at home, shops. I started looking at the layouts used, images, shapes, and how to text was placed and layed out. I felt that by looking at these different examples was more of a substancial and effective form
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[ CONCEPT 3 ] I intend for the magazine sto be easily readable, accesable and navigational as we are unaware of what is going to be approaching the magazines and having to understand them. It will be like a easy to read, go to set of information magazines focusing on earth and its continents.
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My concept for the theme of Documentation Of Infomation is to create a series of 6 magazines that are to be packaged together as a replica of the current Voyger Golden record. The magazines will be a set off 6 - each magazine representing a different continent of Earth. The content of the magazines will include information on languages, food, countries, population etc and a large display of images to make it easily understandable what earths continents are.