Generative Visualisation Poster

Year: 2010 School: TaiK

I participated on a workshop, that focused on using the generative visualisation software NodeBox 2 in typographic design. The assignment was to create an A1 typographic poster around the theme “A Social Type”. My approach on the concept, was names. The poster shows circa 7000 of the most common surnames in Finland in alphabetical order. The size and color saturation of each name varies according to their prevalence, bringing the most common names up from the pattern of rarer names. A task that would have been insanely tedious to do by hand. Take a closer look.