Gjøvik graphics workshop
Just back from an interesting trip around Norway - where I spoke at the Norwegian Agency for Pollution and Climate and Oslo Science Library. The main purpose of my trip though was give a talk and to run an information graphics workshop at Gjøvik University College (Høgskolen i Gjøvik). 17 of the students had filled out a survey about themselves before I got there, with about 20 questions on their favourite colours, films etc. The challenge for the workshop was to work in groups of 3 or 4 to produce an information graphic based on the data - to say something about the whole set of students - in just one day! I was of course very impressed with the results. I'd have been happy if they'd just produced roughs on paper, but most groups actually managed to boot up Illustrator (and in some cases Excel), and get at least a partial design done. While they didn't have much time to visually refine the graphics, I was really impressed by the communicative power of their designs.