GRAPHIC DESIGN · DATA VISUALIZATION

Lemon

Days

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. 

RESPONSIBILITY

Data Screening
Translation
Data Visualization
Graphic Design
Crafting

TIME

Mar 2019

DURATION

1 week

"Make lemonade."

"Eat them."

Squeeze and throw away."

When life gives me lemons, what will I do?

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.
For the colors, I used different shades of grey 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 just grey.

GATHER DATA

I tried to look for possibilities of recreating the experience of depression by reviewing the data in that period. These are data that I have records.

DEFINE THE OPPORTUNITIES

Since the data were all daily data, they can be divided by day; each day is a group.

a group of daily data

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calendar

THE PIE CHART

sliced lemon and seeds

slice to see the inner world

THE COLORS

three shades of grey

THE WEATHERS

lemon and seeds

design elements