KEYFACTS

WORK & PROJECTS

THIS IS:

David Gwiasda

Interaction and Graphic Designer from Germany.
Bachelor of Arts in Media Design since 2010.

I'M AN:

Interface Designer

Screen Designer

Web Designer

Graphic Designer

Concepter

I'M INTERESTED IN:

Information Design / Architecture

Infographics (sometimes even Infoposters)

Data- and Information Visualization

Software development

Experimental User-Interface Design

Usability and Responsive Web Design

Generative Design

Processing

Good typography and webfonts

Good copywriting

TAGS ABOUT ME:

creative thinker

night owl

problem solver

trial & error proofed

grid apprentice

information design addict

human-computer interaction enthusiast

data and information visualization observer

I could go even more complex ...

... but coffee absorber is a good stop for now.

MENTIONS:

Bachelor of Arts in Media Design with distinction.

Tinbergen-Preis for best B.A. Thesis at RFH Köln in Media Design 2010.

Nominee: Cologne Design Award in November 2010.

EXHIBITION:

29.10. - 15.11.2010: MAK — Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Cologne, with Taggnets.

BESIDES:

Part of the Alumni-Jury at the presentation day of the RFH Köln in January 2011.

Apple Certified Pro Final Cut Lvl. 1.

CREDITS:

The "color of the week"-section is inspired by Onformative.

KNOWLEDGE:

A few links to share:

Infosthetics, Visual Complexity, Flowing Data, Simple Complexity, Datavisualization.ch, Information is beautiful, Visualizing.org, Instantshift, Smashing Magazine, GOOD, Co. Design, Contrast, everydayUX, Net Magazine, ReadWriteWeb,

A few books worth reading / looking through:

Data Flow 1 + 2 (Klanten, R.) // Visual Display of Quantitative Information (Tufte, Edward R.) // Envisioning Information (Tufte, Edward R.) // Information Visualization (Ware, Colin) // Information Visualization: Design for Interaction (Spence, Robert) // Readings in Information Visualization – Using Vision To Think (Card, S.K. et al.) // The Information Design Handbook (Visocky O'Grady, Jenn + Ken) // Introduction to Information Visualization (Mazza, Riccard) // The Visual Miscellaneum: A Colorful Guide to the World's Most Consequential Trivia (Mccandless, David) // Generative Gestaltung: Entwerfen. Programmieren. Visualisieren. (Bohnacker, H. et al.) // Responsive Web Design (Marcote, Ethan) // Interaktive Systeme – Software-Entwicklung und Software- Ergonomie (Stary, C.) // Visualisierung im Document Retrieval – Theoretische und praktische Zusammenführung von Softwareergonomie und Graphik Design (Eibl, M.) // Emotionales Interaktionsdesign: Gesten und Mimik interaktiver Systeme (Dorau, Rainer) //
to be continued ...