Information Design.

Information design is the skill and practice of preparing information so people can use it with efficiency and effectiveness. Where the data is complex or unstructured, a visual representation can express its meaning more clearly to the viewer.

For a more in-depth description of the design concept;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_design

I took a look at various artists who use information design, and a few really caught my eye;

http://www.jonburgerman.com/Work/comments/brain_drain/- this work is incredibly bright and colourful, and details modern life in such a way that the work doesn't even need text to get its message across!

It also has some very cool sculpture, as well as;

This piece, which really helps get my earlier point across.

I also really like this one due to the similarities between the illustration and my work.

One thing I've noticed so far is that a lot of very good information design gets it's message across without using font, this is also an excellent way to get around the language barrier!

An old form of information design would be the london underground map;

http://www.visit-londoncity.com/london_tips/pictures/underground_map.jpg

Looking at this piece again and actually seeing it really shows just how brilliant the piece is, a minimum of form and a maximum of function; Some more information on it;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tube_map

and it's fairly brilliant creator;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Beck

Unfortunately after some research I realized that there isn't very much else by him, but this is one thing I actually quite like about information design, it's more about the work than the artist, a truly brilliant piece of information design really immortalizes the artist who created it, even if no-one remembers his name.

Relating this back to my own work, my pieces really do need to have font on them, as the pieces themselves are a narrative, I really could push forward with the environmental side of my pieces, and I'd love to see them mocked up on a wall of an exhibition (or actually attached to the walls of an exhibition).

If I was going to change anything about the pieces, I'd change the font so it was all made of individual bits of paper, and create a few more posters based on the eco-friendly paper argument (more points on carbon usage and recycling etc).