When I was young and thought I was very clever, I would spend a considerable amount of time thinking up cool names for projects––my favorite being "Bad/Gas."
This was a project for an Information Design class I took many moons ago. The premise was to create a data visualization of *something,* but to add an unique angle to it. Being a foodie, I predictably turned to food. I wracked my brain for a few days, trying to think... How can I show a correlation between automobiles and obesity in a different way?
There were the obvious inspirational images from Erwin Wurm's Fat Cars (2008) or the 5lb simulated fat that you could purchase online. I turned to data to try and have data drive my design.