Gjøvik workshop 2014
It was once again a great pleasure to be invited over to Norway to work with the students at Gjøvik University College for a day's workshop last week. In the same way as last year, I set up a survey to ask them questions about themselves, and tasked them with creating A3 posters to visualise data about their whole year group. Again, I was really impressed with how far they got in just a few hours. The posters This group focussed on colours - hair colour, eye colour and favourite colour (represented by the clothing). From the original sketch, they worked up two different treatments. I love the idea of the eye pie chart. The two different hair treatments both work too. It may be difficult to see the exact proportions with different coloured hair in the left had one, but I think it gives a good overall impression. The group explained that they didn't have time to do what they wanted with the jumper colours in the left hand diagram (as in the sketch). The labelling i