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Nicholas Felton, “Accumulations”

Talk Summary: For the past decade, Nicholas Felton has methodically captured and shared his life in a series of projects collectively known as the Feltron Annual Reports. These reports apply data visualization techniques to the age-old concerns of the journal and have contributed to the current field of lifelogging. In this talk, Nicholas will share his methods for data collection as well as his narrative and design concerns while creating his reports.

Takeaways:

- The importance of data as a new design medium.

- How to humanize statistics.

- Successful strategies for collecting data.

- Techniques for communicating a data set.

Biography: Nicholas Felton is a designer, entrepreneur and artist concerned with translating quotidian data into meaningful objects and experiences. He is the author of numerous personal annual reports that condense the events of a year into a tapestry of maps, graphs and statistics. The insights and techniques developed from this project have informed his design of Facebook’s Timeline and the creation of the Reporter and Daytum products. He has been profiled by The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times and his work is a part of the permanent collections of MoMA, SF MoMA and the RISD Museum.

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