Illustration
Cf. Representation, Representation, Illustration
Types of illustration and related concepts
- design illustration/representation
- scientific illustration
- botanical art
- scientific and data visualisation
Botanical illustration is more akin to music with its subjects that require a systematic approach because they are less familiar and intuitive to humans.
What design and engineering representation typically focuses on?
- industrial objects
- standards and regulations
- marketing and promotion
- standard and typical arrangements
- human-made and human-controlled entities
- a narrow range or spatial and temporal scales (human organism, not even human generations)
What is important to represent for ecocentric design?
- evidence, data, numbers, information
- meaning, stories, subjectivities, perspectives
- constraints, restrictions, hidden voices, the ways some voices are too powerful
- diverse actors
- relationships and interactions
- mutualisms, symbiosis, parasitism
- connectivity
- spatial and temporal scales
- processes
- cycles
- life histories
- events and disturbances
- stabilities and relative durations
- contrasting states and other comparisons
What are the existing sources of relevant representational practice?
Examples and Context
Visualizing Science: Illustration and Beyond
Christiansen, Jen. Building Science Graphics: An Illustrated Guide to Communicating Science through Diagrams and Visualizations. New York: A K Peters/CRC Press, 2022.
Design for an Audience | Science Graphics at the New York Times
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