More Catalog/Re-Catalog

This past week I kept moving forward with grouping and re-grouping the Vitra archive of chairs, and started applying outside data to the groupings of chairs. This first chart simply separates the chairs based on the decade the chair was made and whether the presidents occupying the White House were Democrat or Republican.


This time I separated the designers by country of origin to see where the concentrations of creativity and innovation were. Thinking about re-doing this one in a more visual way, that plays with a map perhaps? I tried overlaying the chairs into the bar graph, but it became visually cluttered.

For this chart, I reached into the vast pot of Gapminder data. Though much of it was difficult to decipher and visualize, I decided to start with the data for the GDP growth of countries represented in the chart above that featured more than 2 designers.


Coming soon is a similar chart to the one above, this time tracking the CO2 emissions of the countries featured over the past century. Next steps will be to make visual links between the charts by overlaying/combining/hybridizing in a way that clearly shows the potential present in the act of cataloging and re-cataloging.