information Graphics III

Advertisement for the Hive music festival. Very creative and original signifying all the information in the form of a man. I love the typography and the way in which different bits of info are in different sized fonts.

information Graphics II

This chart definitely stands out the most and in my opinion looks the most attractive of the three 'Beatles' pieces. It also looks the most complicated and most of the information is not even took in unless really studied. It shows The Beatles' working schedule from 1963 - 1966 plotting all their albums, performances, tours and side projects. The colours used are really effective and the way its presented looks like a piece of art itself.

This information looks a bit jammed up but its actually the most interesting of the three. Showing every song The Beatles made, who wrote it and the percentage of which each person wrote. At first glance it doesn't really appeal to me but I don't think that so much information could actually be presented in a better way.

This chart shows the frequency of each musical key used in each of the 13 Beatles albums they each have their own little pie chart showing which keys were used more often within them. I think it's very creative and original. The information isn't really important but its interesting to look at, especially if you're a Beatles fan or just a music fan in general. I don't like the blue background but it goes well with the other colours used so overall it stands out.

information Graphics

This is genius. And proves that drugs make people happy. I think the colours used are too bright though which makes the information harder to read and the colours used on the map for the last third don't stand out enough either, I think they need to show the correlation clearer. I like this because the idea is interesting, unique and funny at the same time.

By The Way

Sign - 'Red Hot Chili Peppers - By The Way' album cover. 2002.

Signifier - Painting and photography by Julian Schnabel. Colourful metallic blue painting of a naked woman (Julian Schnabel's daughter & John Frusciante's then-girlfriend) over a 'dirty' black & white photograph. Grungy red & blue text.

Signified - Colourful music which can be full of energy at times but lonely at other times.

Natural History

Sign - 'I Am Kloot - Natural History' album cover. 2001.

Signifier - Detailed colour painting of three scruffy old men drinking on a park bench.

Signified - Represents the laid-back and kind of negative themed music.

TLSP - TAOTU

Sign - 'The Last Shadow Puppets - The Age Of The Understatement' album cover. 2008.

Signifier - Black & white photograph of a roughed up young lady sat on the floor. Taken by Sam Haskins in 1962.

Signified - At first glance anybody would think that she is the singer, unless you know the band.

01-18-08

Sign - 'Cloverfield' movie poster. 2008.

Signifier - Broken statue of liberty, gloomy & destroyed NYC, dark sky & water. Special effects produced by Chantal Feghali, Bad Robot Productions.

Signified - Advertising release date and theme of new big film.

Bus Stop

Sign - Bus stop advertisement.

Signifier - Looks like stacks of real cash in a window advertisement at bus stop.

Signified - Advertising 3M security glass.

Semiotics

Semiotics = The study of Signs.

Signs - Something that stands for something, to someone in some capacity. It may be understood as a discrete unit of meaning, and includes words, images, gestures, scents, tastes, textures, sounds – essentially all of the ways in which information can be communicated as a message by any sentient, reasoning mind to another.

Signifier - The form which the sign takes. Any material thing that 'signifies' such as words on a page, a facial expression, an image.

Signified - The concept that the signifier represents.

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