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GOOD Magazine Transparency
This was designed for GOOD magazine under the direction of Mark Owens' Information Design elective at CalArts in the spring of 2008.
The visualized data presents a history of US troop levels at various points in time. Much of graphic design about war is often highly critical and often takes on the look and feel of "protest." My formal solution to this data was an intentional "about face," if you well from that stance. I used my own photography of toy soldiers and battle vehicles as data points. The supplemental typeface, House Industries United with it's stencils and wide range of weights give typographic connotation to the numbers. The stencil evokes markings on the sides of military freight and equipment, while the width of each percentage grows with the percentage.
The result is a tongue-in-cheek response to the dropping of troops to total population. The criticism comes via humor, rather than the typical grass roots approach of rough imagery, and brash colors.
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