Three Days in Nikola-Lenivets
Visualization of a summer trip
to a Russian art park in the Kaluga region
to a Russian art park in the Kaluga region
The poster is dedicated to a personal trip to an art park with landscape installations. Art objects are located in the open air, harmoniously coexisting with nature.
I went to Nikola-Lenivets in June 2024. The trip turned out to be eventful, I took a lot of photos and videos, but I wanted to preserve the memories of it in a special way.
Almost immediately after returning home, I reconstructed the route of each day on the map and recorded supplementary data in the sheet. In addition to the route map, I wanted to make a visualization with reference to the symbol of folk and rustic — platbands.
Almost immediately after returning home, I reconstructed the route of each day on the map and recorded supplementary data in the sheet. In addition to the route map, I wanted to make a visualization with reference to the symbol of folk and rustic — platbands.
Art Objects
Beaubourg
Rotunda
Universal Intelligence
Ugruan
Lighthouse
White Gate
Creation Process
As expected, the most labor-intensive part was recreating the routes. This idea came after the trip, so I didn’t use any applications to record movements on the map. Fortunately, with photos I recorded absolutely all the art objects we passed by, so re-building the routes "hot on our heels" turned out to be not so difficult.
To be honest, at first I tried to lazily cheat and simply connected the points of the art objects with straight lines. It looked strange and didn't reflect real movements at all. Valuable data was lost, for example, movements by car, winding route in the forest part of the park, etc.
I haven’t worked with geodata yet and wasn’t ready to figure it out. Therefore, I first built routes by day between the necessary objects in the maps app, screened them and outlined them in Figma. I took into account all the repeated passages along the roads, so it turned out tightly.
After struggling to combine all three routes into one object, I had to work with the rest of the data. Before this project, I had not yet touched the vertical poster format. The portfolio included only cards for social networks and individual visualizations. I also wanted to do this project quickly, immediately after the trip, so that the motivation would not disappear. Therefore, at first I decided to divide the data into two parts and make separate cards (postcards?).
The result was an infographic part and a more artistic part with a slight hint of platbands. The idea was poorly read, and when combined into one poster, the composition didn't come together. It had no visual or semantic center.
The situation was saved by Anton Mizinov (he has a wonderful datavis tg channel and website). He helped to finalize the platbands encoding and think through the composition. The result of the work is at the beginning of the article and below are sketches made during joint brainstorming.
The situation was saved by Anton Mizinov (he has a wonderful datavis tg channel and website). He helped to finalize the platbands encoding and think through the composition. The result of the work is at the beginning of the article and below are sketches made during joint brainstorming.
