Friday, June 03, 2011

How to Illustrate a Chart

Tomer: the Play section in Wired focuses on a single theme and measures certain aspects of it throughout the magazine. it's an info-graphic, or a pie chart, showing the relative sizes of the different parts of a whole.

This chart was about the Apocalypse. my initial idea was a lone mutant survivor climbing a heap of junk, sporting a multi-lens glasses. each lens represents a different segment. no luck.


Another round: ghosts; rainbow; toxic puddle; totem. no luck.
 

But the totem led to this idea.

Which became this page--

Art directed by Alice Cho for Wired magazine.