This is a designer.: abstract

29 Oct 2012

British web of love.

My final university project was a mapping project. My design statement and project are as follows. The design statement appeared in a booklet that I hand sewed the binding of. This booklet displayed all 20 maps and was placed inside the envelope on the right of the presentation that is marked as the 'Legend' of the map.

Design statement
My maps explore the connections between actors within the British film industry. By limiting the selection to twenty films I was able to see the versatility of some actors, and their prolific nature. Twenty individual maps were formed, focusing on the actors that appear in at least two of the films chosen. From these, six (so as to represent the notion of six degrees of separation that supposedly exists between individuals of any walk of life) were then chosen due to the interesting shapes formed by visualising the data. The central graphic depicts the connections between all 64 actors that repeatedly appear across these twenty British films.