About Me

My name is Carlie-Rose Maitland, Second year design student (visual communications). Interested in Animation. Nineteen, hoping to get a career doing something I love may it be animation, photography, snow boarding any thing to do with the Arts. Travelling is a Passion, in fact the header of this Blog in actually a photo I took at the Fish Markets in Japan, Tokyo, I feel the aspect of the movement created in the photo that gives the idea of interaction and movement.

Information Design

Information design is the act of de-coding complex information, and displaying it graphically for the average person to comprehend and understand. This type of design is used to simplify data to its easiest possible understandable form. The visual outcome of the complex information can be a simple bar or pie graph, and can even be manipulated creatively to also create interest and appeal to particular audience to meet specific objectives.

Michael Lawlor – Information Design. Last updated13 Jan 2000 http://searchcrm.techtarget.com/definition/information-design.
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This example of information design is a very unique clock called “Pixel Breaker”, which uses a polar plot to show the passing of time.


This map of Tokyo’s JR Train line is a good example of information design, as confusing as it appears at first, there is a large amount of information that has been strategically used to create a legible map for every one to use.


This Graph shows different categories of The World Consumerism, with a colour code system the graph make the information more digestible for the audience to understand and comprehend.