At e-artsup we make our students aware of the importance that data can have in decision making. And reporting on the information provided by the data in a simple and enjoyable way is the job of the graphic designers!
Two examples of projects carried out at e-artsup around this theme
In Bordeaux from March 23rd to April 1st 2012, on the occasion of the Digital Week organised by the city of Bordeaux, 1st and 2nd year e-artsup students participated in the Digital Creative Battle organised by Cdiscount and the city of Bordeaux.
During this competition, five teams of around ten interdisciplinary students from the Bordeaux Campus, Sciences-Po and the Bordeaux 3 Master's degree in design service competed in imagination and audacity on the theme of open data. The objective was to create in one day a new innovative online service, based on data provided by the City and Cdiscount, with the key to development facilities in terms of human, material and financial resources for the best project.
Tristan Pénin, a 2nd year e-artsup student who was part of the winning team explains : "My group has designed a project that allows any customer frequenting a CDiscount partner restaurant to find the CDiscount references of the product consumed from a QR Code on the sales receipt. We will soon be able to take part in the development of the project we have imagined, its realization and its marketing. »
In Lille from 4 to 8 February 2013 The students of e-artsup Lille and the Ecole Supérieure de Journalisme (ESJ) Lille collaborated during an datadesign workshop.
The objective: to visually and clearly translate a set of statistical data into figures and to derive clear content from them. Supervised by Lorena Foucher, independent art director and datavisualization specialist, the students wrote the information from Excel spreadsheets, embodied the data and were pleasant to read. Each team consisted of a journalist and four designers: a project manager, two graphic designers and a watch manager. Each group worked on a survey carried out beforehand by the team's journalist: unemployment in a district of Lille, self-entrepreneurship in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region...Embodied by the slogan "Make your DATA sexy! «
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Datadesign is of increasing interest to institutions, media and companies because of its clarity and playfulness. However, there are still few agencies specialising in the sector. With the increasing availability of data from public authorities (and increasingly from private actors), the demand for rational interpretation will also grow, so e-artsup students have their own card to play in this rapidly expanding field.
Nicolas BecqueretDirector of studies e-artsup
