People whos talent I am jealous of: Stefanie Posavec

Con­sider this the first in my one-part series on human beings who have a gift and tal­ent the makes my blood seethe with envy. This pres­ti­gious bur­den gets placed today onto Ste­fanie Posavec. Ste­fanie is a 28-year old Den­ver native who has man­aged to snag the recent cover design gig for inter­net wun­derkinds OK GO (you’ve prob­a­bly already seen their first vid [4 guys, 4 tread­mills, 4/4 power-pop], you really ought to watch the new one as well).  I had actu­ally stum­bled across her work before but was unawares that she was involved in the gen­er­ally accu­rate, smart, fun, bril­liant Left Vs. Right infographic.

Her “Writ­ing With­out Words” project applies sta­tis­ti­cal analy­sis and graphic rep­re­sen­ta­tion to great lit­er­ary works, in an effort to gen­er­ate visu­ally dis­cernible graph­ics that might rep­re­sent an authors tone, the­matic ele­ments, or cadence.  The results of her visu­al­iza­tions are intri­cate, and beau­ti­ful.  And rich with information.

In Lit­er­ary Organ­ism, Ste­fanie has mapped out themes from Kerouac’s “On the Road”:

Here, Part One divides into chap­ters, chap­ters divide into para­graphs, para­graphs divide into sen­tences, and sen­tences divide into words. Every­thing is colour-coded accord­ing to key themes in On the Road.

She applies her gift to the world of pub­lish­ing, where i gather she is employed, in (En)tangled Word Bank Ste­fanie has applied her style/prowess to the task of cat­e­go­riz­ing revi­sions between edi­tions of Darwin’s Ori­gin of the Species.

Many thank yous to Infor­ma­tion­Is­Beau­ti­ful for turn­ing me on to this gifted graphic artist.