One of my core offers, cartography, is one of the oldest infographic (information design) forms. It combines both art and science, and our relationship with them is two-fold; both as a tool and an image.
Maps employ a wealth of information portrayal strategies: classification, selection, generalisation, simplification, exaggeration and symbolisation — realising both topographic and thematic forms. Continued developments in technology, science and visual communication have evolved and refined the graphic codes that maps employ, their capacity for abstraction and application. Utilising conventional and new cartographic techniques, together with GIS, I use maps to create and articulate patterns, concepts and information about our environment and experiences.
As our digital and virtual worlds are continually shaping our perceptions of the local and global landscape we inhabit, topology rather than geography has emerged as the new measure of social proximity. Mapping has adapted and evolved to encompass that, and continues to gain ascendency as a critical mode of inquiry, exploration and creative endeavour.
As well as (re)presenting environments and information, I am also interested in mapping our experiences — our emotive and physiological response to space. I have collaborated with architect, artist and academic, Mathew Emmett in this regard. This is an area which is growing in significance; relevant to the use and experience of public and private spaces that exist, once existed, yet to exist, or imagined.