I’m Johan Wastring, graphic designer with a keen interest in information visualisation. The amount of data and information nowadays is massive. I strongly believe that we have just begun to view information. There is so much work to be done. With the amount of data available today and the flora of techniques and their increasing accessibility it’s just a golden time for new and improved ways of accessing knowledge hidden in all this enormous amount of information and data. As a designer, I tend to think of information as a material these days.
I work at Ortelius Management in Malmö, Sweden. Ortelius is a consultancy firm working with continuous improvement projects in global enterprises using our proprietary software which is based on an innovation in information management. I am also in the steering group for the visualisation network in south of sweden – ViS.
I thank Ben Fry for alot of my energy today. I found his thesis together with Processing in 2007 and suddenly (well six months later at least) found myself able to program a bit. An old dream of mine. The programming seems like a new level of creativeness since I can write code the way I used to twist curves in Illustrator. Quite amazing.
My main interests are information visualisation, graphic design, visual communication and typography. My main project now is realising the project Visual Enterprise, a visual representation of the current and future state of the complete enterprise. The data is structured by our (Ortelius) excellent, unique and amazing software.
I got my business degree from Lund University and my graphic design degree from Forsbergs skola, both in Sweden, but I also took some time to go to Central Saint Martin in London.