Lecture 3: Inspiration

Experience Design, Environmental Graphics & Wayfinding

For examples, inspiration and guidance from other designers, see the resources below. This list includes a variety of  designers, agencies and projects that are relevant to the projects we are exploring this semester.

Agencies

• Bluecadet
• ESI Design
• Potion Design
• Pentagram
• Entro
• OpenEye
• ColumnFiveMedia
• 5WGraphics

Designers

• Nigel Homes Information Designer
• John Grimwade Information Designer
• Nadieh Breme Data Visualizer
• Rocco Piscatello Graphic Designer – Typography master – >> FIT Poster Series
• Nicholas Rougeux Graphic Designer/ Artist – with interest in data visualization and fractal artwork
• Edward Tufte a statistician well know for his work on design strategies for information displays
• Mary Franck creative director and experiential designer focused on digital media for installations, events, and exhibits.
• Abott Miller Pentagram Partner
• Jen Christiansen Science Communicator, Art Director Scientific American
• Fernando Gomez Baptista InfoGraphic Artist for National Geographic (YouTube)
• Alberto Lucas López Information Designer and Graphic Journalist
• Bryan Christie Science Visualizer
• Joe Lertola Science Visualizer
• Bunji Tagawa Science Illustrator
• Immy Smith Science Illustrator
• Jonathan Corum Science Graphics editor at The New York Times
• Adolfo Arranz is an infographic artist. He currently helps run the South China’s Morning Post infographics and illustration department.
• Wendy MacNaughton Illustrator and Graphic Journalist
• Giorgia Lupi Information designer, Partner at Pentagram, Data Designer

General Resources

• SEGD The Society for Experiential Graphic Design is a multidisciplinary community of professionals who plan, design, and build experiences that connect people to place.
• 2019 Information is Beautiful Awards
• NY Times 2018 Year In Graphics Selected Times graphics, visualizations and multimedia stories from the year.
• Information is Beautiful An excellent resource for getting ideas and seeing how others do it.
• Data Visualization Society An organization and online publication with excellent articles and resources about the field of Data Visualization and Information Design
• Data Stories A podcast about Data Visualization and Information Design by Enrico Bertini and Moritz Stefaner