Information is Beautiful: Data-Inspired Textiles

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Some artists draw on emotions; Annika Syrjamaki relies on more concrete means: Data from newspapers and stock markets.

Does that look like a weather report to you? Photo: Annika Syrjamaki.

Even if your eyes glaze over at charts and graphs, Annika Syrjamaki's "content-based" textile design will win you over. The artist's research project "The Daily Pattern" sources less-than-glamorous information -- think word frequency and the weather report -- and uses computer programming software to develop the numbers into patterns. Those patterns are then woven, printed or laser cut into stunning textiles. Wondering why she's after such fact-based inspiration? That's exactly the point. "Too often, textile design is approached from a purely aesthetic perspective," she writes on her site. "I want to design textiles that serve not only a stylistic, but also a communicative function, in which the resulting form is a direct product of the content itself."

Left: Pattern based on "positive" versus "negative" words on teh front page of different newspapers. On the right: word frequency. Photos: Annika Syrjamaki .

A pattern sourced from a Swedish election program. Photo: Annika Syrjamaki

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Source: http://www.shelterpop.com/2011/05/27/information-textiles/

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