Over the next few weeks we will be highlighting award-winning projects and ideas from this year's Core77 Design Awards 2013. We will be featuring these projects by category, so stay tuned for your favorite categories of design! For full details on the project, jury commenting and more information about the awards program, go to Core77DesignAwards.com.
Project Name: Visual Data Designer: Accurat
The project is the "Visual Data" column, a full-spread data visualisation published every week within La Lettura, the Sunday cultural supplement within Corriere della Sera, the highest circulation newspaper of Italy. Accurat studio were tasked with revealing and advancing the use of data-visualisation to provide new perspectives in the newspaper-editorial field. The subject of the project can be described as a new form of non-linear storytelling: info-spatial journalism.
The 16 "Visual Data" visualizations are submitted as Images, and in the Supporting Document.
- How did you learn that you had been recognized by the jury?
Just from the e-mail! We were traveling during the live stream and weren't able to see it live...
- What's the latest news or development with your project?
We are still working with Corriere della Sera and we regularly publish our data-visualizations on La Lettura; every sunday we analyze and represent a different topic or phenomenon and our visualizations are gaining lots of exposure and coverage on magazines worldwide, like Fast.co Design, Slate, PopSci, The Atlantic Wire, Forbes. Images of this portfolio of visualization will also going to be published on data-visualization books from Harper Collins, Gestalten, Springer.
- What is one quick anecdote about your project?
All of the visualizations of the portfolio are actually conceived, designed, built and finalized in five days each; working with a weekly publication forces us to adapt our workflow to the needs of the newspaper.
- What was an "a-ha" moment from this project?
Corriere della Sera is a widespread newspaper in Italy, it's common to see someone exploring our visualizations in the streets; it's always surprising and fun to spot scenes like the guy next to you on the seaside that tells his wife: "What they did here is amazing, did you know that the Caspian Sea is bigger than Great Britain?"
View the full project here.
Project Name: Bozoni Designers: Wael Morcos Rhode Island School of Design
Bozoni is a typeface made of a system of 3 stacking fonts. It is based on the original well known Bodoni font. The idea of the Design considers what happens when a vector shape (with curves and obliques) is rasterized into an orthogonal pixel grid of a screen, and what happens when our expectations for beauty and elegance are processed through imperfect technologies.
- How did you learn that you had been recognized by the jury?
I watched the live announcements.
- What's the latest news or development with your project?
I'm considering the option of actually publishing the font.
- What is one quick anecdote about your project?
I think the name of the font is funny. But that is probably just me having a thing for lame word puns.
- What was an "a-ha" moment from this project?
When I realized that there was something to do with the way the screen changes the appearance of a typeface.
View the full project here.
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