Visualizing the Crisis
Visualizing the Crisis is an infographic project about the global real estate market.
The aim is to create an atlas that gathers news and data about the world financial crisis every week.
The survey has been divided into eight subjects, one topic for each chapter of the atlas: real estate,
central banking, employment, energy, euro debt crisis, gold, insurance and the tech bubble.
The series included 10 weekly bulletins, each printed with a risograph machine. The bulletins were
researched, edited and designed in seven days after the collection and the visualization of all
crucial data related.
For the students' final exhibition at IUAV University, Venice, this interface was presented as an installation
made of punched cards, a reader and a thermal printer. All infographic content from the bulletins
was broken into components defined through a set of 64 keywords ranging from geography, resources,
demographics and financial definitions that then were archived into XML files.
These components can be printed as on-demand, succinct reports. Visitors to the exhibition could select
which reports they wanted to generate by punching the keywords on the cards.
A digital version of the same interface can be found here.
Graphic Design Irene Chiappini, Giulia Serafin
Developed at IUAV, Venice
Supervisor Marco Ferrari, Ivor Williams
Year 2016
Developed at IUAV, Venice
Supervisor Marco Ferrari, Ivor Williams
Year 2016
