Sparky Malarkey http://www.living-thoughts.net/blog Unit 14 Blog Sun, 08 Apr 2012 17:18:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Name http://www.living-thoughts.net/blog/?p=343 http://www.living-thoughts.net/blog/?p=343#comments Sat, 22 May 2010 04:53:51 +0000 Shin http://www.living-thoughts.net/blog/?p=343 Got a name for the infographic poster!

Full Medal Jacket

gettit, gettit?

for those dummies who don’t…
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Cut off, continued…whichever, both looks crap.

CRaaap.

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Second go at gridding the space. Now must count up the number of spaces available for ‘medals’ and go on with adding numbers in…

Edit: 548 is maximum squares for ribbons

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Source (Henry Holland on the ASOS Catwalk)

Henry Holland, nice shirt.

Everything and anything somehow relevant to medals will end up here I fear.

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Source

First go to see how the gridding & mapping for the infographics will work. Unsure about the jagged edges – does it affect legibility much? It doesn’t seem so clear what the pieces are as well – might need annotations or whatever. Template borrowed from this!

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Sucessfully vectorized ribbons

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Photos of the VV Rouleaux Ribbon shop

Looked into buying real medal ribbons from this store but seeing that I needed around 30m, the costs came up to about £300, so I had a think again, obviously. Came to a conclusion that my ‘medals’ don’t need to be authentic medal ribbons, since the point now is not to highlight what the medals visually stand for, but to use the system and attitude to represent a new school of thought.

Quite a pity that the ribbons aren’t all the same width, and I’ve had to choose cheaper (i.e solid colour) options for larger categories.

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Braved Primark to buy the Jackets, £21 each. Plan is to have one with examples of medal pinning, another with full medal lining, and the third also fully lined but displayed inside out.

]]> http://www.living-thoughts.net/blog/?feed=rss2&p=362 0 The economic value of achievement http://www.living-thoughts.net/blog/?p=339 http://www.living-thoughts.net/blog/?p=339#comments Sat, 15 May 2010 04:39:40 +0000 Shin http://www.living-thoughts.net/blog/?p=339 I thought it was important to narrow it down and make it as relatable as possible so decided to stick to real figures from London, from the past 4 years.
  1. Recycling - ~6m – 19.5%
  2. Choosing not to smoke – ~5.5m – 17.9%
  3. Blood Donations - ~0.3m – 1%
  4. Participating in Neighbourhood Watch – ~0.75m – 2.4%
  5. Cycling as means of transport – ~0.15m – 2%
  6. Using Public Transport – ~3m – 9.8%
  7. Buying Organic Food – ~3.3m – 10.8%
  8. Official Volunteering – ~1.8m – 5.8%
  9. Charitable giving - ~5.85m – 19%
  10. Energy efficient buildings – 4m – 13%

*The percentage is measured too add up to 100% so for example, to use one of the categories, the way the infographic would be read is: “19.5% of Londoners recycle”, or “2% of Journeys made in London are on bicycles.”

Source Acknowledgement

General Data: http://data.gov.uk/

  • Charities & Volunteering:  http://www.communities.gov.uk/documents/statistics/pdf/1341477.pdf
  • Recycling: http://www.communities.gov.uk/documents/planningandbuilding/pdf/150583.pdf
  • Travel stats (cycling/public transport): http://www.tfl.gov.uk/assets/downloads/corporate/Travel_in_London_Report_2.pdf
  • Neighbourhood Watch: http://www.mynhw.co.uk/regional/london-index.php
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