How to travel with salmon
Produced as part of a master’s degree information design course at Swinburne University of Technology, this publication looked at illustrating a non-data based narrative with data and data visualisations. Using Umberto Eco’s essay How to Travel with Salmon, the design ruminates on the author’s encyclopaedic historical knowledge: the iconography pays tribute to Otto and Marie Neurath’s seminal ISOTYPE illustrations from 1935 and etymologies hidden within the French folds are a subtle nod to the linguistic work that underpins all of Eco’s writing. The book design celebrates the playful — and sometimes absurd — interaction between the pleasantly chaotic storyline and tidbits of data.