This is an infographic narrative execution of Francis Ford Coppola's film Apocalypse Now. It details Captain Willard's journey to meet Colonel Kurtz. Done for no other reason than the pleasure...

In 1977, the great computer scientist Donald Knuth published a paper called The Complexity of Songs, which is basically one long joke about the repetitive lyrics of newfangled music (example quote:...

King Bhumibol Adulyadej, who died in October 2016 at the age of 88, was Thailand’s monarch for seven decades. Preparations for a lavish, five-day funeral with a budget of $90 million took nearly a...

How big a deal is an Oscar nomination? Most movies make the majority of their profits in the first few weeks after release. A nomination for the Oscars could change this dynamic dramatically,...

We looked through decades of rap lyrics and categorized every mention of Donald Trump and other presidential candidates, and presented the results with graphics, sound and an interactive database.

In 2017, there are still directors who shoot on film (sometimes exclusively). Others use both film and digital when it serves a purpose. In this project, I explore the filmmaker's choices. When we...

The theme of our information design is "military parade to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese people's war of resistance against Japanese aggression". The whole work is...

A nonlinear narrative is a storytelling device that portrays events of a story out of chronological order. Story curves visualize the nonlinear narrative of a movie by showing the order in which...

Visualisation about two books written by Jules Verne. The Journey to the centre of the Earth and the Around the World in 80 days. The colour divides the visualisation in 2 parts, where the darker...

Fear & Loathing in Cinema Theatre is based on the idea that genres — as prototypical narratives — are constructed in such a way as to evoke a characteristic viewer's emotions. The project shows...

It is a commonly held belief that Hong Kong is blessed with a relatively large number of public holidays to compensate for employers traditionally limiting their workers’ annual leave. Marco...

A timeline of Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, and which books each of the most popular characters appears in.

We have a created a platform featuring 50 years of Billboard US Top 100 (1965-2015) showcasing 50 years, 5000 songs, 2500 artists and 5 emotions.

A visualization of national anthems in the world. Nowadays, a massive amount of data about the economy, education, environment, history, etc. were put together to recognize a country. A national...

The visualisation shows the 50 most voted animated feature films on Imdb (Internet Movie Database); for each picture are reported the number of votes received, the average value of the judgments,...

Are romantic movies always composed of happiness? Feelings are hard to be measurable on screen, but can we “watch” movie from unorthodox perspectives? This project is to visualize the sentiment in...

Recently, I’ve been a bit caught up in old Kung Fu movies. Shorting any technical explorations, I have instead been diving head-first into any and all Netflix accessible martial arts masterpieces...

A tribute to Anthony Bourdain, this work visualizes all the places that Bourdain visited and shared with the world through his television shows---A Cook's Tour, No Reservations, The Layover, and...

The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) asked me to create visualizations for a multiple-paged special on the Bayreuther Festspiele, an opera festival founded by Wagner. The graphs show some...

At Spotify, we're interested in observing users’ behavior and inferring what that means about their relationship to music. This experimental project visualizes several months' worth of listening...

A student project. A 16 foot wide data art installation, to be shown at Maryland Arts Day (the largest annual gathering of arts professionals in Maryland, where they have a chance to connect with...

Thangka is the unique fabric-painting art of Tibet, and few modern people know the origins and production processes of Thangka. I used the form of the temple city to explain the production process...

The project shows a data vizualisation of all curse words and deaths used in recent Quentin Tarantino's movies, from Reservoir Dogs to Django Unchained. They are listed according to the time of the...

Bonsai, is one of the traditional Chinese fine arts. Plants and rocks comprise the basic materials for artwork that expresses natural landscape in a small basin.

Based on film budget, revenue and rating data, Film Money tells the story of the fickle relationship between business interests and public taste. Often demanding huge amounts of effort, manpower...

This piece uses musical notation to visualize songs in Disney animated feature films. It depicts when songs occur, how many times they occur and who they are sung by. From this, one can see...

Through the black background, the precision of the line drawing creates a sense of precision, like a sketch to draw the feeling of information icon. This article summarizes the types of running...

Christopher Nolan`s Thriller Memento deals with a man who suffers from a short-term memory loss, an alleged murder and the nature of the crime. Furthermore the component of vengeance is addressed....

In the twenty years since its 1998 release, Joel and Ethan Coen's neo-noir buddy comedy 'The Big Lebowski' has emerged as a cult sensation. A yearly festival is devoted to the film and its...

Game of Thrones has a reputation for killing off its audience’s favorite characters. It’s become a running joke and a warning that fans give to new viewers: don’t get too attached to any character,...