FORM 2015

2015-11-02 00:00:00 2015-11-04 00:00:00 America/Toronto FORM 2015 Get inspired by some of creative technology’s foremost innovators Up your professional creative game at this two-day celebration of the best in design, web, photography, media and craft in creative tech. FORM is an event that promises to both unite and transform the industry by playing… Chicago FITC Chicago

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Personal Processes
Inspire
Storytelling

Overview

For the past decade, Nicholas Felton has methodically captured and shared his life in a series of projects collectively known as the Feltron Annual Reports. These reports apply data visualization techniques to the age-old concerns of the journal and have contributed to the current field of lifelogging. In this talk, Nicholas will share his methods for data collection as well as his narrative and design concerns while creating his reports.

Objective

Personal Processes is an introduction to the motivations and techniques behind the Feltron Annual Reports.

Target Audience

Designers. Anyone working with data or interested in storytelling.

Five Takeaways

  1. The importance of data as a new design medium.
  2. How to humanize statistics.
  3. Successful strategies for collecting data.
  4. Techniques for communicating a data set.
  5. The sensitivity of meta-data.