Horse Blanketing Chart

For a year, the two women, living on opposite sides of the Atlantic, collected personal data about their own lives each week—data about the number of times they laughed, the doors they walked through, the compliments they gave or received. These are critically important messages intended to help you avoid potential injury and to prevent damage to your vehicle. A weird bit of lettering on a faded sign, the pattern of cracked pavement, a clever piece of packaging I saw in a shop, a diagram I saw in a museum. This is the magic of what designers call pre-attentive attributes—the visual properties that we can process in a fraction of a second, before we even have time to think. A printable chart is inherently free of digital distractions, creating a quiet space for focus. This is a messy, iterative process of discovery.