• Interaction | Interface | Web

  • Graphic | Information | Motion

  • Service

  • Experimental

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Self portrait

Class:Graduate Studio 1

An information visualization of my life time


About this project


Self portrait as information design is my first assignment in Carnegie Mellon University, Interaction Design program. Dan Boyarski,the head of school of design asked each of us to create a self portrait poser to introduce ourselves, along with a process book to document some thoughts and expectations. I mapped out my 23 years with detail stories and emotions, color-coded with emotions at that specific time. In my process book, I got 23 signatures from design students in my studio,too.


Project Details

Project Duration: 2 weeks

Project Time: Fall 2007

Course: Graduate Studio 1

Instructor: Dan Boyarski



My peers' posters

CMU school of design gallery Self Portrait as Information Design


Skills involved

  • Illustrator
  • Graphic design for printing medium
  • Information representation

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I have always been an enthusiast of graphic visualization, here's another book I produced at Yale, they are using the same ideas.


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The difference is, at Yale I was asked to design a book with any movie's structure, even now I couldn't figure out the meaning of this(I am not an artist though I have good visual skills), I do think it totally make sense to visualize my life stories because it makes the graphics useful. and it proves again I'm not an artist.