Finding Elegance – designing with data

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€ 259 (VAT exempt)

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This training is for everyone who would like to spend time to learn off-screen approaches to designing a data visualisation. During the training you will draw and redesign a data visualisation.

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SOLD OUT: 30 September & 1 October, 2021 (1:30pm - 4:30pm CEST, total 6 hours).
The training will be online.

4 November & 5 November, 2021 (1:30pm - 4:30pm CEST, total 6 hours).
The training will be online.
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Finding Elegance: designing with data

Data visualisations made by Italian designers are considered of an extreme high standard. The composition, the level of complexity, but especially the beauty of the design are world class. Federica Fragapane is one of the young and talented designers and illustrators from Italy. In this workshop she will focus on the elegance and design of a data visualisation.

The training will guide the participants through all the phases of a data visualisation project. Special attention will be on the design of a visual narrative and how to tell a compelling story with data. We will be focusing on the participants’ interests and inclinations, both on the contents and on the visual aspects in order to create a clear, visually appealing (hand drawn or tool based) visualization. Plenty of time will be dedicated to the refinement phase: the participants will be guided to work on all the visual details and stylistic touches that can have a relevant role in the creation of an effective and elegant data visualisation.
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The first day of the training participants will be offered some datasets to choose from, according to their personal interests and inclinations. The training will guide them in selecting the data and the story that they’re interested in communicating. Participants will then sketch their ideas on paper and – after having defined their new visual alphabet, made by shapes and colors – will hand-draw or use online tools to make the first draft of a data visualisation.

The second day we will be focusing on the relevance of the visual refinement phase. Participants will be invited to test their visualisation and re-look at them with a new and fresh point of view. This refinement phase will help them in finding those elements and details that can have a significant role in the creation of an effective and elegant visual narrative.

The following topics will be covered:
  • short introduction to data visualisation
  • case studies and examples of data visualisation projects
  • from data to visual alphabets
  • the role of visual inspiration
  • definition of custom visual models
  • designing elegance
  • the importance of details
  • critical analysis of previous works
  • redesigning a visualization through new points of view

Trainer

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Federica Fragapane is an independent visual designer. Among her projects, she designed data visualizations for Google, UN, Scientific American, BBC Science Focus, Penguin Books and La Lettura. She is co-author of the infographics children's book "Planet Earth" (National Geographic Kids and White Star) and co-author of the "Geopolitical Atlas of Water" (Hoepli).

She is Research Associate at ODI - Overseas Development Institute.

She won a Silver Medal and three Bronze Medals at Malofiej 2020, the Data Design Honoree at Fast Company Innovation by Design Awards 2019, the gold medal at the Core77 Design Awards 2018 in New York and was awarded at the European Design Awards 2019 and 2017, Core77 Design Awards 2017 and Information is Beautiful Awards 2017 and 2014.

Many of her projects have an experimental approach and she is interested in exploring the relationship between data visualization and people.