Curious designer. I focus on visual identities and its application through different mediums.

Passionate ℗ about building creative tools, information-dense design, and raw design theory.

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Hustle Butter
Visual identity refresh

Barcelona Health Hub
on the 4YFN event

Visual identity

Articler ℗
Website programming language built for designers

Keys ℗
Keyboard layout for typographically sound text: with proper dashes, diacritic marks, and specific symbols.

Sports Trio website and Instagram posts
The sport center that focuses on martial arts for children.

Barcelona metro ℗
Map

I write about a design concept to accelerate the generation of visual ideas: Expressiveness concept.

Graphs

One of the people who heavily influenced me as a designer was Edward Tufte. He explores means of clear visual communication of complex data. He describes beautifully made maps, graphs, tables, and schemes — naturally I fell in love with this discipline.

Redesigned graph of the inflation forecast for June 2022 compared to December 2021

Original graph:

The redesign doesn’t compromise on scale for Turkey and Argentina:

and keeps two graphs in one place.

It’s adaptable for vertical horizontal screens:

Redesigned graph

The original:

The redesign uses colour more delicately and keeps lines angle close to ∠90°

Instead of random colours, languages are assigned a gradient by which it’s recognised. For example, Python is yellow and JavaScript is orange

Vertical:

Horisontal:

A map of the Indo-European languages family tree

The theory suggests that most languages derived from one language — Proto-Indo-European.

“Proto” means it’s hypothetical. It occurs when two or more languages’ structure suggests they derived from a common language.

There’s no physical evidence for a proto-language. It is usually theoretically constructed — based on the languages that derive from it.

Details:

Lines usually run from top to bottom, like after Sabellic, but sometimes are bent to occupy less space:

Line between Vulgar Latin and Romance is prolonged to emphasise that most families come from Romance:

Lines are aligned with the x-height, but in case with Langue d’Oïl and French it makes sense to align by the capital height:

Let’s get in touch!

makar.polovinka
@gmail.com