Self Portraits

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I love this representation of self  'Map of an Englishman' by Grayson Perry. Very intricate and in depth, I think I posted something called BrainLand in a previous post ages ago but this is detailed.

'His Map of An Englishman (2004) is a mock-Tudor etch of an imaginary island, not coincidentally resembling a brain, surrounded by Psychopath, Bipolar Disorder, Schizophrenia, Delirium and other unpleasantness at sea; divided into counties with alluring names such as Tender, Bitch, Romance, Cliché and Guru – Normal and Easy are pretty small areas, and Fear is a large, scary forest in the east.' http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2008/02/08/ They also remind me of these that I saw. How curious again, seen at strange maps, he released a book. Well worth a look.
found: http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2009/03/01/363-ego-cartography-the-island-of-philippe-gonzalvez/
found: http://www.serialmapper.com/archive/2009/03/22/facemap.html
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Published on 2010/07/04 7:25 pm.
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What's in MyBag?

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What does a bags content communicate about our selves? Take a picture of the contents and share.
Find more photos like this on whats in mybag

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Bag - Camera - Upload - It will take you 5 mins - Join In!

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Its intriguing what people have in their bags. Use your discretion to veil sensitive info. Please join in, and you don't have to just be  creative individual that takes part. Anyone can do it and take part.

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Express yourself!

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http://whatsinmyb.ning.com/

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Published on 2010/03/25 6:30 pm.
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Self Mapping

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mileage - annual report - Nicholas Feltron’s


music - annual report - Nicholas Feltron


reading habits - annual report 07 - nicholas feltron

Visualise yourself, what would you display to an audience? how intimate would you make it? Well even though he has been doing them from 2005 I have just discovered them by Nicholas Feltron. With very minimal styles but nice clean, clear, infographics and bold numbers encased in this swiss style grid system to keep some structure and rigidity to his diverse information of his life.

I am curious how he records all this data to be absolutely accurate, it must be some focsed, disciplined time keeping and number crunching.

Why? When quizzed, Felton’s admits that ‘it satisfies a real curiosity that I have about my habits. Why is it a popular document? If there are numer ous people out there who think it is fascinating and don’t even know me… imagine how fascinating I find it’. At first your reaction is ‘Oh please….’ but soon you are scouring the pages to see which was the most visited restaurant, his most-drunk beer: a sort of typographic Truman Show, authored by Truman himself.

It is intersting how the CR blog author describes it as a sort of typographic Truman Show.

http://feltron.com/

there are previous versions there.

found here: http://www.creativereview.co.uk/crblog/me-myself-and-i/

Published on 2009/01/16 3:22 pm.
Filed under: brockmann, clean, complex, data, design, geographic, how to, map, mobile, seeing, self, strange, swiss, visual maps, visualisation

Notebook Route Map

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This is showing the visual communication of my thoughts on page(s), (9 pages). A visualisation through the journey of my investigation on the terrain of thoughts.

They meander accross the double page spread and mostly are connected via their physical position, i.e. a train of thought finishes, it restarts at the same point at the edge of the page on the next.

They were experiments to see how I visualised my ideas. Whether their physical arrangement through the notebook of my research, ideas, investigations helped me understand better. Re-Re-Reinvestigation.

The second image (route map) is for others to use, simply overlay it on any terrain thou wishes squire, your own notebook pages, maps etc. Then visually think and elicit thoust own topographic connections and routes.

It is quite a conceptual abstract notion to take the visual direction of my thoughts on page(s), the journey of my investigation on the terrain of thoughts and utilise this route with alternative content/terrain. Really like the abstract/organic lines mixed with geometric shapes bringing a bit of order to my thoughts (chaos).

Some experiments I have created, playing with that great notion of 'the map is not the territory' - baudrillard. Hence investigations into what is the territory, and can you utilise maps in different territories. Spatial arrangments intensifying/enhancing cognition. Got me buzzing.

Hope they're interesting.

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Published on 2008/09/14 10:31 pm.
Filed under: complex, composition, diaries, information, interpret, knowledge, landscapes, mapping, maps, multidirectional, non linear, notebook, seeing, self, spatial, territory, visualisation

Life Map

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LifeMap
Originally uploaded by ritwikdey
Excellant visualisation of user ritwikdev for work on Information Design course at Parsons.

He charts his life between ages 6 and 24 with a revealing honesty of family. Great work looking at the self with the varying rainbow colours changing in scale on the top in these warm vibrant colours of his creative side each colour representing a discipline Drawing, Reading, Singing and further progressing in his Academic studies to Graphic Design, 3d modelling, then to MFA Advertising, Print, Ambient Music.

Then the subtle gradaution creating sublime salience of light blue to dark in the 'Non Academic' of Mechanics, Physics progressing to Code Art probably influenced by John Maeda no doubt, Info Viz.

The very bottom has a good reflection of life mentioning joining Boy Scouts, School Captain, Troop Leader, Mothers Illness, Relationships.

The Very Top if all this wasnt enough he has room to slip in more info of his geographic location over these years. But dont forget there is still room on the right to add to his life from now onwards...

Brilliant Multiple Subjective Map.

Published on 2008/05/18 3:46 pm.
Filed under: clean, colour, creative, diagram, geographic, information, knowledge, memories, multiple, new york, perspectives, representation, self, subjective, sublime, time, visualisation, ways of working