What type of sounds do you get?

WHATYPE has gone into sound and music!

We have started a collaboration just recently that is really interesting and great fun. Quarterbit aka Fernando Fonseca is a Portuguese sound designer/composer that is also involved in other projects like Katsumoto, Torsion or Clark|KENT. As Quarterbit what he does is taking our files and trough data bending and a lot of ‘magic’ creates some amazing sound tracks to go along the Kyoto series. For a better explanation of the process you should really visit his blog at http://quarterbit.wordpress.com/2008/07/09/kyoto-protocol-letter-count

A link as been added to the Kyoto Protocol Letter Count ( http://whatype.wordpress.com/2008/06/03/what-type-of-world-do-you-want-i/ ) so that you can hear the sound track.

So remember to keep coming back here to discover how design is transformed into music.

Music by Quarterbit

mail: quarter.bit@gmail.com

blog: quarterbit.wordpress.com

It’s all in the head

Poster, Type: bell gothic

By: Alexandra Maciel

What type of world do you want? V

In this poster I was thinking about what would it look like if the worlds frontiers where rearranged taking in count the carbon dioxide emissions per capita. Or if you want, how much are we ‘invading’ other countries. To achieve this I’ve taken data from the US Department of Energy’s Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center for the United Nations Statistics Division regarding 1990 to 2004, I’ve calculated each country maximum, minimum and their average. I’ve then scaled each country (or group of territories) according to the values obtained, using each countries geometrical center for the axis of that scaling. Each one received a different color for better reading. Finally each ’scalled’ country was turned in to a rectangle using the geometrical center in order to give a better perception of the area each one takes. I know that there are more correct ways of showing this kind of data, but my goal with this series is to present visual appealing data rather that to present accurate ways of showing the same data.

Poster: A2 Type: Helvetica

By: Pedro Monteiro

Thin line

Illustration

By: Tiago Borges

site www.panda-man.info / network.rca.ac.uk/profile/TiagoBorges
mail: t@panda-man.info

What type of world do you want? IV

With this poster I’ve gone beyond the Kyoto Protocol and worked the IPCC scenarios used for the Forth Assessment Report (2007). I’ve used a typographic grid to display all the information in a organized and coherent way. The six scenarios have a big presence and each of them represent both the maximum and minimum of the raising temperatures and sea level. This data will be used on a future poster showing the exchanges to the world as we know it today under each scenario.

Poster, Type: Helvetica

By: Pedro Monteiro

What type of world do you want? III

QuarterBit - Kyoto 2

This is the the third poster for the Kyoto series. This poster shows how the countries are keeping up with their commitment (or not) going to 2012. To achieve this look I’ve used a unit of 10 cm. Each country is placed upon a stroke that as the height of their goal for 2012 (if one country has to reduce emissions by 92% then the stroke is 9,2 cm relating to the unit previously set). The circles and ellipses are also related to the unit, if every countries goal is a circle of 10 cm, then each year’s ellipse is increased or diminished to the percentage of that years emissions. Each ellipse is rotated 18º to achieve a better display of the data.

Poster, Type: Helvetica

By: Pedro Monteiro

What type of world do you want? II

This is the second poster for the kyoto series. In this poster I’ve taken all the countries that signed the protocol and their quantified emission limitation or reduction commitment. This is a straight forward way of showing this data. I’ve used a grid five columns plus one larger and eight rows plus the title one. This poster works on preceding the third one that I’ll post latter showing how the countries are keeping up with their commitment (or not) going to 2012.

Poster Type: Helvetica bold

By: Pedro Monteiro

What type of world do you want? I

QuarterBit - Kyoto01

This is the first of a series of posters on the Kyoto Protocol. The idea is to show how every little thing can make a difference. For that I counted every letter used on the Kyoto Protocol text and created a way of showing the different proportions between all the letters used. I was trying to give it two levels of reading. The first is the literal one, the black blocks of proportion. But what I was really aiming for was a second level, the one where after you’ve been ’smashed’ by the simple and almost naked feel of the message you can go deeper and find out that even if the E block is so big, you couldn’t have the protocol if there weren’t any Z’s (35 only).

So, for as much as the signature from the USA is needed on the protocol (the USA are obviously the E) you still need us mere mortals and Z’s to save the world.

Poster Type: Helvetica bold

By: Pedro Monteiro

Missing missing that

Can we miss a feeling?

Can we miss the heat from a hug?

Can we take a breath in mourning?

Can a make up become guilty pleasure?

Can chocolate be the only coat?

Can tears be hidden forever?

What type of humans can regain humanity?

By: Joana Maciel

Experience with grids

For this I’ve used a set of rules to create a programme that would give a diferent typographic grid. The basic though was to create circles out of the rotation of a square. The smallest square is 10 cm and is rotated in angles of 5º. The midle square is 20 cm and rotated in angles of 10º and the bigger is 30 cm and rotated in angles of 20º.  I’ve then choosen angles 20º and 80º for the magenta and 30º and 150º for cyan, that created the grid. The text was divided in colors acording to each sentence. Each sentence takes the color of the grid line it’s placed upon and each sentence only begins when the line it is upon is intersected by a line of the oposite color. The question takes the gray color and is the only sentence that is placed out of the grid. This messy look gives the anwser to the question, you have to turn around and to be prepared to take chances and changes to stand out and be heard.

Poster, Type: Helvetica bold

By: Pedro Monteiro and Joana Maciel (text)