Visualizing Literature
While browsing this other blog I like called Information is Beautiful, I came across the work of graphic artist Stefanie Posavec. According to David McCandless, the blog’s author and designer, Posavec’s work “is concerned with the unveiling of things unseen.” One of Posavec’s projects: to visualize the structure of Jack Kerouac’s On The Road. Being an amateur book diagrammer myself, I was intrigued. [Warning: Nerd Alert] After I read any novel I particularly like, I try to diagram its structure, making charts or graphs or weird timelines. These drawings are basically unintelligible to anyone but me, of course. When I’m stuck on my own work I do the same kind of drawing, hoping that a visual representation will help me fix whatever it is in the structure that’s baffling me. Sometimes it works. Often it doesn’t, but a) it’s fun to do and b) doing it makes me feel like I’m actually working. So when I saw Posavec’s diagrams of On the Road, I immediately got a huge crush on her. I mean, these illustrations are BEAUTIFUL. In a Literary Organism, she makes lines divide into chapters, blooms into paragraphs, sprouts are sentences. All are color-coded according to the book’s key themes. There are other graphic representations of the book’s rhythms, sentence structures, and word usage.
Here’s a blog with high-res images of Posavec’s work. And here’s her website.
Themocracy
Boa noite Frances,
Em primeiro ligar gostaria de me apresentar. Me chamo Adriana Gontijo e sou estilista em BH. A razão deste comentário é porque me apaixonei tanto pelo seu livro “A costureira e o cangaceiro” que fiz a coleção de inverno da minha marca inspirada nele.
E fizemos várias postagens sobre ele em nosso blog. Não sei se te interessaria, mas se vc desejar conhecer a primeira parte da coleção, o blog é: http://www.arosavermelhabh.blogspot.com.
Este foi um dos livros mais lindos que já li. Parabéns!