Flags of the world as piecharts. Each sector of these piecharts is proportional to the area of the colour on the respective flag.
Using a list of countries generated by The World Factbook database, flags of countries fetched from Wikipedia are analysed by a custom made python script to calculate the proportions of colours on each of them. That is then translated on to a piechart using another python script. The proportions of colours on all unique flags are used to finally generate a piechart of proportions of colours for all the flags combined.

Link: https://shaheeilyas.com/flags/

A variation of that project: https://shaheeilyas.com/flags/flags_mixed.html

Tags: Communication design, Computer programming, Data visualization, Exhibitions, Research, Art, Generative, Installation, Print, Social, Website

Year: 2007

Exhibitions

• IEEE Visualization 2007 Conference in Sacramento, California. USA, forum for data and information visualization advances for academia, government, and industry. Co-curated by Golan Levin, Fernanda B. Vigas and Ben Fry.
• Filmbase, Dublin, Ireland (2008) as part of “Synth Eastwood Show 5 Flags & Anthems”

Publications or Media Coverage

• Brain Pickings – Color as Data: Visualizing Color Composition
• Data Flow (2008 Die-Gestalten, Germany) Visualising Information in Graphic Design
• IDPURE (N°13, 2007) The Swiss magazine of graphic design and visual creation
• Kelvin – Colour Today (2007 Die-Gestalten, Germany) investigating today’s evolving perception and application of colour
• Gentlemen’s Quarterly – GQ Magazine (May 2008 Italy) on Style | Design section
• Information Aesthetics – Data visualization & visual design
• ColourLovers – Colour & design for creative inspiration