A Not So Edible Arrangement
To understand a complex set of data, a visual system is required. Educating through simple and powerful visual content helps ensure the message can easily be interpreted by the viewer.
All leaves were pressed by hand
Illustrator / InDesign / Photoshop / Lightroom
24 x 24 inches, print
The Challenge
As a visual communicator, it’s imperative to be able to analyze and organize a given set of data and present the solution as clear and possible to the viewer. The challenge for this design was to choose then analyze a collection of objects through qualitative means.
After a long list of brainstorming potential objects, leaves were a perfect solution. Each one is unique and they have many qualitative categories to organize them by. The final arrangement of 112 leaves displays them by size and hue.
The Method
I wanted to choose a collection of objects that I had a large number of to show their variety across qualitative categories. Leaves were also easy to translate into the computer, by scanning then cutting out each leaf shape individually in Photoshop. This part of the process was very time consuming but was advantageous because I could easily rearrange each leaf on Illustrator.
A breakthrough came when I decided to arrange the leaves by hue and size inspired by the shape of a color wheel.
