KULDNE KARIKAS

DATA DESIGN

Kuldne Karikas is  one of the culminating events of the dance year for dancers in Estonia. Through preliminary rounds, the best dances of the year make it to the finals of the Kuldne Karikas, which is the big final event.

For the past three years I've been taking dancing classes in Tantsugeen, focussing on Club Freestyle with Monika Tuvi. In 2019, we competed in the Kuldne Karikas with our performance of "Baby" and were thrilled to come out on top. In addition to the trophy that we got from the dance festival, I decided to make one of our own. This is our personal trophy and present for our badass dancing coach and choreographer Monika in order to show our love and appreciation for this achievement. Kudos!

PROCESS

For my project, I decided to use a dendrogram chart to visualize and classify taxonomic relationships. It is frequently used to illustrate the arrangement of clusters produced by hierarchical clustering. The name "dendrogram" comes from the ancient Greek words "déndron" and "grámma," meaning "tree" and "drawing." I pulled the results from RawGraphs into Illustrator and began to experiment with the raw assets of the tree and soundwave. Instead of presenting this information horizontally, which for example is a default shape of soundwaves, I decided to turn all this data into a radial visualisation. Let's see how the audio clip turned into a circular soundwave.

Then I imported the downloaded SVG into Illustrator and gave the default and boring soundwave a new and softer look.

And finally I turned the horizontal bar into a cirle.

I designed the information in black and gold colour scheme. This trophy was printed on a 60x60 cm high quality glass with a black metal frame by Glasstech.

Thanks for reading & stay awesome!