GRAPHIC DESIGN · DATA VISUALIZATION
A work about data visualization.
A work about self-study.
A work about depression.
THE DESIGN
In the thesis year of my MFA program at CCA, I was working in the area of biography. I was given a lemon and asked to design anything with the element of lemon.
📅 TIME
Sep 2019
🛠 TOOLS
Sketch
Printer
✅ MY JOBS
Data Screening
Translation
Data Visualization
Graphic Design
Crafting
When life gives you lemons
"Make lemonade."
"Eat them."
"Squeeze and throw away."
The first thing that came to my mind was the days when I was suffering from depression.
I was diagnosed with moderate depression and used prescribed antidepressants to treat depression for some time.
Luckily, I didn’t stop my personal ritual of taking a photo every day in those days.
So, I have the opportunity to visualize my personal life from the photos I captured during that period.
In this work, I visualized my sleep time, daily meals, color palettes from everyday photos, and the weather.
I used different shades of grey for the colors to express my feelings of “lemon days” intentionally.
Because I want to tell people that depression is different from sadness;
I was not upset but had no feelings or mood swings on everything.
I cannot feel dark or bright.
My world was only grey.
IDEATION
I tried to recreate the depression experience by reviewing memories in that period. Here are the data types I have in records.
Since the data were all tracked daily, I divided them by day. Each day is a group.
a group of daily data
calendar
DESIGN & MAKE