{"id":1939,"date":"2013-04-02T10:31:45","date_gmt":"2013-04-02T15:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielpradilla.info\/blog\/?p=1939"},"modified":"2013-04-29T04:06:39","modified_gmt":"2013-04-29T08:36:39","slug":"drawing-the-world-by-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielpradilla.info\/blog\/drawing-the-world-by-hand\/","title":{"rendered":"Drawing the world by hand"},"content":{"rendered":"

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At Lucerne’s Gletschergarten<\/a>,\u00a0among old maps, models and reliefs of the Swiss Alps, we’ll find an expo from Ueli L\u00c3\u00a4uppi, a local cartographer that makes hand drawings and colorings of maps using a particular projection that highlights a thorough representation of the mountains.<\/p>\n

Moreover, L\u00c3\u00a4uppi has moved his studio to the museum and on certain days you can actually see him completing a precipitation map from an Asian region using a rapidograph and a\u00a0box with carefully labeled Caran d’Ache<\/a>\u00a0color\u00a0pencils to differentiate rainfall ranges.
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L\u00c3\u00a4uppi’s work is at he crossroads between science and art<\/b>. His extensive research (documented on video) evidences his background as an engineer, and his will power to temporarily move his studio to the museum borders on performance art.\u00a0 It’s also evident that L\u00c3\u00a4uppi knows a thing or two about visualization. His maps are very eloquent when it comes to representing data and explaining their meaning.<\/p>\n

Personally, I consider that the staging of this desk in the middle of the exhibition with the rest of the unfinished pieces sends a message: maps are made by people and it’s hard<\/em> to draw maps<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

All of this reminded me of a post about the wireframes and skeletons for web apps and pages<\/a>\u00a0and the opinions of some experts who believe presenting sketches instead of perfect lines gives your output a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153work in progress\u00e2\u20ac\u009d feeling, opening the doors for engagement and getting better and more timely feedback from your clients<\/b>.<\/p>\n

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In Sketchy Rendering for Information Visualization<\/a>, Jo Wood, Petra Isenber, Tobias Isenberg, Jason Dykes, Nadia Boukhelifa and Aidan Slingsby, propose drawing visualizations as if they were made with a marker on a board, in order to communicate that the design is not complete, that is open to criticism and changes, and that visualizations and dashboards<\/a> represent a narrative in progress<\/b>. Also, unlike architectural drawings or industrial designs, graphics don’t represent tangible objects, so they don’t need to be accurate. Their goal is to help tell a story<\/a>. Just as the proverbial business plan written in a napkin, graphics with sketches aim to illustrate a point and it’s ok to sacrifice some accuracy.<\/p>\n

The imprecision suggested by\u00a0sketchy features may reinforce perceptions of simplicity\u00a0and thus reduce the expectation of cognitive effort required\u00a0to interpret the visual scene<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As part of the method illustrated on paper, authors have created a free library<\/a>\u00a0to be used with\u00a0Processing<\/a>\u00a0that provides astonishing results:<\/p>\n

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They seem hand-drawn, right?<\/p>\n

And maybe there’s another key: just as with L\u00c3\u00a4uppi’s maps, these graphics convey the idea that visualization was thought out and made by a human <\/b>and that there’s meticulous work behind them.<\/p>\n

A Handsome Atlas<\/a>\u00a0gathers visualizations completed at the end of the XIX century for the US census. These are graphics of great beauty, charts\u00a0that tell a story<\/a>\u00a0and that are truly different from the automatic output done on excel.<\/p>\n

We forget that graphics need to be well-thought; that they should communicate something, be memorable and situate themselves between art and science.\u00a0 And although a computer does the rendering job on the screen, when visualizing data we’re also drawing the world by hand<\/b>.<\/p>\n

L\u00c3\u00a4uppi’s expo will be displayed at the Glacier Garden until September 15th<\/sup> of 2013.<\/p>\n

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At Lucerne’s Gletschergarten,\u00a0among old maps, models and reliefs of the Swiss Alps, we’ll find an expo from Ueli L\u00c3\u00a4uppi, a local cartographer that makes hand drawings and colorings of maps using a particular projection that highlights a thorough representation of the mountains. Moreover, L\u00c3\u00a4uppi has moved his studio to the museum and on certain days… Continue reading Drawing the world by hand<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[174,172],"tags":[198,197],"class_list":["post-1939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bestof","category-projectmanagement-en","tag-charts","tag-visualization","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tlzy-vh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1822,"url":"https:\/\/www.danielpradilla.info\/blog\/dibujando-el-mundo-a-mano\/","url_meta":{"origin":1939,"position":0},"title":"Dibujando el mundo a mano","author":"Daniel Pradilla","date":"07\/01\/2013","format":false,"excerpt":"En el Gletschergarten de Lucerna, entre antiguos mapas, maquetas y relieves de los Alpes suizos, encontramos una exposici\u00c3\u00b3n de Ueli L\u00c3\u00a4uppi, un cart\u00c3\u00b3grafo local que se ha dedicado a dibujar y colorear mapas a mano, usando una proyecci\u00c3\u00b3n particular que destaca una meticulosa representaci\u00c3\u00b3n de las monta\u00c3\u00b1as. 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