Meanwhile, our team of 12 kept the momentum going, actively working across 6 projects and wrapping up 2 over the course of the month.
Swipe through for more highlights in numbers, and stay tuned as we step into April! 🌟
#datavisualisation
We've put out two new things on our website: our Wishlist–a collection of dream projects we'd love to bring to life, and a case study of our recent work with the Consortium for Agroecological Transformations. Both are worth a read; find them at the link below!
Our website: revisual.co
March was a big one for us at RVL! 📊 The numbers speak for themselves– we chatted almost twice as much as we did last month and saw a 75% surge in code commits compared to February. We also welcomed our very first dev intern, Brenda!
Design and Development: Divya Ribeiro, Schubert de Abreu and @chartwaali.bsky.social from Revisual Labs
Art Direction and Illustration: OinkOink (Pranay Patwardhan & Nikita Deshpande)
This project is inspired by The Pudding’s “Sounds of CDMX”.
Credits:
Research Lead: Bhawna Parmar
Research Team: Aparna Santha-Jayanthan, Risha Ramachandran and Sahana H. M.
Creative Direction: Bhawna Parmar and Sahana H. M. from Quest Alliance, Divya Ribeiro and @chartwaali.bsky.social from Revisual Labs.
'The Digital Lives of Young Indians,' an interactive, illustrated story that brings to life 29 experiences of how young people across India use, understand, and experience social media. This project was created in collaboration with Quest Alliance and We Oink.
Swipe to see the many colour versions of this illustration before it got to the final.
View the project here: digital-lives.questalliance.net
These were just some of the many considerations that Pranay and Nikita–the illustrators for this project–had to solve for when finding the right colour palette. However, this was a process of trial and error, and with valuable input from the client, the task was accomplished.
The palette had to be colourful and vibrant to engage readers. Yet it also had to be contained without feeling too repetitive when used across parts of the illustration.
It had to be easy on the eyes, having to work at both a zoomed in and zoomed out level since this would become interactive.
Contrast was an important factor too–the characters had to stand out on the screen to prompt viewers to click on them, making sure no character’s story would get missed.
The first consideration being that the background elements of the illustration had to feel like an active part of the story without overpowering the characters.
Choosing a colour palette for our latest project ‘The Digital Lives of Young India’ involved finding the right solution to a series of complex considerations.
Design and Development: Divya Ribeiro, Schubert de Abreu and @chartwaali.bsky.social from Revisual Labs
Art Direction and Illustration: OinkOink (Pranay Patwardhan & Nikita Deshpande
This project is inspired by The Pudding’s “Sounds of CDMX”.
Credits:
Research Lead: Bhawna Parmar
Research Team: Aparna Santha-Jayanthan, Risha Ramachandran and Sahana H. M.
Creative Direction: Bhawna Parmar and Sahana H. M. from Quest Alliance, Divya Ribeiro and @chartwaali.bsky.social from Revisual Labs.
How did such a project come into being? Swipe through to find out, and click on the link below to see the project and these stories for yourself!
Link to project: digital-lives.questalliance.net
Together, we created an interactive site visualising the digital commons as a 'maidan'; a public ground, featuring 29 stories–each with a unique character–narrating their stories.
What do young Indians use and understand the internet? How do they experience the digital world? These were the questions that Quest Alliance sought to find answers to through a survey involving 220 students and their relationship with the internet and social media.
Design and Development: Divya Ribeiro, Schubert de Abreu and @chartwaali.bsky.social from Revisual Labs
Art Direction and Illustration: OinkOink (Pranay Patwardhan & Nikita Deshpande)
This project is inspired by The Pudding’s “Sounds of CDMX”.
Credits:
Research Lead: Bhawna Parmar
Research Team: Aparna Santha-Jayanthan, Risha Ramachandran and Sahana H. M.
Creative Direction: Bhawna Parmar and Sahana H. M. from Quest Alliance, Divya Ribeiro and @chartwaali.bsky.social from Revisual Labs.
So what exactly sets qualitative data apart from quantitative data, and why does it matter? Swipe to find out, and visit the link below to explore the full project.
Link to project: digital-lives.questalliance.net
The goal of this project was to make the case for how qualitative research can be presented in a variety of ways, beyond a traditional report. It can be visual, immersive, and deeply human too.
That's exactly the case with our latest project, 'The Digital Lives of Young Indians,' an interactive, illustrated story that brings to life 29 experiences of how young people across India use, understand, and navigate the internet and social media.
While numbers are often at the heart of what we do at Revisual Labs, sometimes the stories we tell don't have numbers in them.
Design and Development: Divya Ribeiro, Schubert de Abreu and @chartwaali.bsky.social from Revisual Labs
Art Direction and Illustration: OinkOink (Pranay Patwardhan & Nikita Deshpande)
This project is inspired by The Pudding's “Sounds of CDMX”.
Credits:
Research Lead: Bhawna Parmar
Research Team: Aparna Santha-Jayanthan, Risha Ramachandran and Sahana H. M.
Creative Direction: Bhawna Parmar and Sahana H. M. from Quest Alliance, Divya Ribeiro and @chartwaali.bsky.social from Revisual Labs.
We developed illustrated characters to tell these stories and represent the diverse landscape of experiences that young Indians have with the digital commons.
Visit the project through the link in our bio and explore stories from the maidan.
In our latest project 'The Digital Lives of Young Indians,' we developed an interactive, illustrated story created in collaboration with Quest Alliance and OinkOink highlighting 29 stories of how young people across India use, understand and experience the maidan of social media.
Just as a maidan has winding trails, unexplored patches and many obstacles, young people make sense of this 'digital maidan' in their own, unique ways.
In many ways, the internet resembles a 'maidan' in India; a vast public space where young people come to reinvent themselves or replicate their lives online.
