Darkness & Light no.1

I've been playing around with the concept of darkness and light in terms of art and design lately. Below is the first piece of a series that I've completed. I hoped to balance the beauty and desolation of life on the Canadian prairie. 

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Infographics: The Power of Visual Storytelling

If you are a designer who develops infographics, you need to read this. "Infographics: The Power of Visual Storytelling" is an extremely informative and inspiring design tome that covers all bases in regards to dissection and display of data. 

If you are a person requesting the design of an infographic, you need to read this. "Infographics: The Power of Visual Storytelling" includes easily understood terminology and planning/strategy guides that will aid in communication with your designer and decrease the amount of attitude and eye rolls they reciprocate for not fully understanding their process. 

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The Life & Times of Marie Antoinette: An Infographic

I like to think I have a life plan that is attainable. 

I want to buy an apartment in Paris. Preferably the latin quarter.

I want to rent that apartment in Paris in the latin quarter to tourists, artists, lovers, those who are lost and those who will eventually find themselves as in love with the city of light as I am.

Then I want to move to Paris when my life savings merit it. I will live in that apartment in the latin quarter displacing any tourists, artists and lovers residing there to some other shelter in the city. I will first change the sheets. 

I will need a job. 

I don't speak French well. 

I am currently taking a university course on French history. 

I will use the knowledge gained through this to transition my career from artsy-fartsy type to English-speaking tour guide in French-speaking Paris. I will use the skills I honed in my first life as a designer to create supplementary materials similar to what I've developed below, an infographic on the life and times of Marie Antoinette. People will appreciate this. There will be word-of-mouth. I will be successful. I will live the rest of my life in Parisian joie de vivre. I will die from eating too many eclairs. It will have been worth it.

 

 

I'll probably die in Saskatchewan. In the winter. After choking on a tidbit from Tims. 

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Let them eat cake.

Since my trip to France last year I've become greatly intrigued by the history of the nation. In particular, the era of unabashed excess which led to the French Revolution has provided vast inspiration for some design work that I've been working on including this poster of my current historical muse, Marie Antoinette…the noise of reputation shouldn't silence true self:

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