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Internally Displaced
(Book, Sign System)
red dot: best of the best (junior award)
red dot award: communication design 2008
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Sign systems have a representational function. They stand for something other than themselves, and it is their task to signify contents, translating them, for instance, via the media of language and pictures. The signs themselves however, are utterly arbitrary at first. Once defined they become convention. Thus, we use the language once learnt in “successful” communication intuitively and naturally.
Design, too, resorts to agreed upon sign systems to establish a fast and loss-free message transfer between the represented and its recipient. However, as was the case with the work “Internally Displaced”, it is often necessary that design digresses from conventions in order to ensure the easy readability of complex information. The two books, the “Darfur Factbook” which provides chronological data and “Internally Displaced” which gives information about different aspects of the crises, intend to inform about the war in Darfur and the situation in Sudanese refugee camps, using a detailed sign system. Complex data from the UN statistics bureau were visually edited to give the viewer an intuitively readable tool for gaining a fast overview. Areas with less supply, for example, are indicated by darker hatching and thus are immediately and clearly identifiable.
client:
IN.D Institute of Design Düsseldorf
supervising professor:
Christopher Wiehl
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design:
Christian Jackmuth, Dormagen
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