Observe, Collect, Draw!: A Visual Journal

Observe, Collect, Draw!: A Visual Journal

Discover the patterns in your everyday life in a guided visual journal. Harness your skills of observation. Activities teach you how to document the world through colors, lines, shapes, design, and data.Fuel your creativity. Through the lens of data, encourage yourself to notice more closely the unfolding processes of both the world and yourself.Observe, Collect, Draw! functions as a mini-course in information design, as accessible to beginners as it is engaging to seasoned info designers.This journal is for you if you are interested inSelf improvementCurious about personal data collectionLooking to expand your creative outletsExperimenting with a different way of drawingReview"In other words, "Dear Data" paints a human portrait with data. With each graph and information map, we get a deeper sense of the authors' personalities. What emerges from this information overload is a fascinating catalogue of the complexity of daily living. By tracking such minutiae, Lupi and Posavec, who both work in information design, reveal the patterns that inform our decisions and affect our relationships."-- The Washington Post