Rock survey

Rock Survey was a project created as a personal challenge to see how I could collect and creatively present information from a single rock. I wanted to use the project as a test to see how many mosses and lichens I could identify (assuming my identifications are correct) growing on a single rock near my house, and how many ways I could represent that information. The book is split into two halves. The left half is a small booklet detailing specifics about the rock, what I found growing on it, and how much surface area on the photographed portion of the rock each species covered. The right half is a set of two, layered large scale prints - the bottom one featuring a to-scale photo of the rock with various species called out on it to correlate with the booklet, and the top one featuring a map showing the general distribution of each species recorded in the photo. The left side folds out and away from the book so that both the left and right sides of the book can be viewed and referenced at the same time without covering each other up. The book is an edition of three.

With this project I was able to experiment with how to collect information, shape it into a consistent and approachable format, and add some more creative elements to the presentation of the information, as well. I want to continue playing with the ways that information design and science communication can have more creative elements introduced into them, making them artful, playful, but still informative.