PPP3: Mapping - An Illustrated Guide to Graphical Navigational Systems

This collection of imagery involves various methods of communicating complex information. The majority of examples deal with raw data; so deal with the challange of converting dry information into something visually harmonious. Fred reccomened this book as it relates to my own investigations of the Hyde Park Picture House.

 

I have picked out a few examples from the book that seem to deal with spacial and trivial information.

 The above excerpt from 'The Sun Years' is a harmonious composition, making the use of a limited palette, and variety of icons to explain information. The image is divided into subsections allowing sections to be viewed independantly or holistically.

Again extremely limited palette, with overlapping sections of information (would be interesting to see animated).

The book does represent interesting methods of information, particulily in the way information is represented non-literally, and may be represented through the over-lapping of shape, colour and line.
Even the flattest of images represent a certain implied depth, which would suggest that my own project could enter a 3-D plain.