Handcrafted Time Mapping

Visualizing time is a tough topic which attracted many designers and artists’ attention, so is history, a quite subjective topic. Haohao Huang sticked for his Master thesis to what he believes in as a graphic designer by using info graphics as an approach to visualize history.

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Some further visualizations document the findings and correlations that emerged during the analog analysis process.mapping_time_02

Haohao Huang’s work is an impressive piece of a hybrid of graphic–, information design and data art. Visualizing this amount of data using solely analog tools renders a unique and refreshing view on the data.

Find the entire photoset on Flickr.com

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  • http://visualthinkmap.ning.com chris

    great post ben and christian, cheers. i loved his type design too on flickr.

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