Tide Chart For Surf City

It was a tool, I thought, for people who weren't "real" designers, a crutch for the uninspired, a way to produce something that looked vaguely professional without possessing any actual skill or vision. 8While the visual nature of a chart is a critical component of its power, the "printable" aspect introduces another, equally potent psychological layer: the tactile connection forged through the act of handwriting. A professional is often tasked with creating a visual identity system that can be applied consistently across hundreds of different touchpoints, from a website to a business card to a social media campaign to the packaging of a product. This single, complex graphic manages to plot six different variables on a two-dimensional surface: the size of the army, its geographical location on a map, the direction of its movement, the temperature on its brutal winter retreat, and the passage of time. It’s a representation of real things—of lives, of events, of opinions, of struggles. A primary consideration is resolution.