Rebekka Fries
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Graphic design practice for visual stories

Hi, my name is Rebekka. I can help your organisation communicate complex topics, interpretate excel sheets and create visual communication. With infographics, datavisualisations and graphic design.

Services
Art Direction • Data visualisation • Information Design • Visual communication



Sandberg@Mediapark

Award winners

Did not take place

Life expectancy

Rehearsing the Revolution

Featured • Unmapping Europe

Safe countries

Changing oceans


Featured • Four Graphic design blogs

Sandberg@Mediapark
Application concept and design

Sandberg@Mediapark is an annual masterclass organized by the Sandberg Institute and Mediapark. For the edition of Artifcial Imagination I made a concept and design for the fictional application IkbenGezond.

The app monitors your health by means of activities and questions to determine your health insurance premium. But what happens if the shared health data is used to the disadvantage of the user? The project draws attention to the feasibility of our health. I made designs for the application, social media posts and presentations for collaborations with funds.

Award Winners
Infographic

IFFR (International Film Festival Rotterdam) screens fiction- and documentary features, short films, and media art. The festival focuses on talented new makers and searches for stories in unexpected places.

During the festival film makers are selected for multiple award competitions, chosen by the audience and selected juries. To celebrate the award winners, this infographic visualises the origin countries of the winning makers from 2021 to 2024.

→   Behance

Did not take place
Video (Installation)

In 2015 the term refugee crisis became official. The responses on social media about the influx of refugees gave the motivation to visualize a reverse scenario.

By making the social theme personal: a video in the form of a smartphone interface. This created the possibility to communicate the storytelling by means of personal and hardware notifications. To create therefore an intimate experience. And the chance for the visitor to experience uncertainties and displacement of the protagonist.

→   Video  →  for the best experience watch on your smartphone

  • Screening at Rotterdams Open Doek Film Festival, Rotterdam
  • Screening at Roodkapje, organized by MINT, Rotterdam
  • Group exhibition Wifibles, Todays Art, The Hague

  • Life expectancy
    Infographic

    In the data visualization, the focus is on the relationship between vegetable consumption and age expectations. The goal was to visualize connections between the different data sets.

    20 Countries and their vegetable consumption are compared with the average age expectation, what each country produces in services and goods in 2020 and the number of inhabitants in 2020 each country had.

    →   Behance

    Rehearsing the Revolution
    Visual identity and Game

    Rehearsing the Revolution is a project initiated by art collective SPACE. We developed the Collaborative Game in collaboration with SPACE and media artist Esther Verhamme.

    The project facilitates a model which is supported through fictional storytelling to bring together different parties. The parties will play in search for common ground and set up a roadmap with scenarios for the future in which Deep Economy is established. In addition, I designed and created a visual language that is applied on the website, in videos, social media, performances, offline and online.

    →   Website Rehearsing the Revolution

  • Visionary Storytelling, Live Facebook
  • Theatre performances, Corrosia theater Almere

  • Featured • Unmapping Europe
    Visual identity

    Sandberg@Mediapark is an annual masterclass organized by the Sandberg Institute and Mediapark. In the edition, Unmapping Europe, Europe as an identity was researched, questioned and interpreted by 7 teams.

    In collaboration with graphic designer Birte Veenkamp, I designed a visual language, for which we integrated the flags of the EU members. The shape and color language gave us the opportunity to design new flags and communication tools.

    Safe countries
    Infographic

    A article of the Dutch journalism organisation One-World, motivated the infographic. The article explains which and how many countries are selected as safe. This influences the asylum process of people refugee these specific countries. The visualisation of the flags and added information about the selection of countries, guides the visual. And in comparison with the amount of countries Sweden and Germany select as safe, is far less.

    The graphic design is aligned and inspired by the identity of the organisation.

    →   One World article (Dutch)

    Changing oceans
    Interactive Infographic

    An article on the changes in the oceans color and its cause written by MIT and Vice, inspired this visual. The infographic visualises the way in which the research on the topic is done and new conclusions were made. As part of a course assignment, this visual is made interactive with Thinglink. An online tool you can use to make interactive infographics and more.

    See the online infographic:

    →   Thinglink

    Featured • Four Graphic design blogs
    Infographic

    The infographic compares four blogs whom post about graphic design. Each has different posts on topics as: events, books, magazines etc. The graphic also shows if there are compatible posts. And provides an inside if you are a student, studio or graphic designer, to look at a specific blog. As the different countries the blogs focus on.

    About

    With experience in analysing and researching information, I visualise projects with graphic design. Through open communication and an analytical mindset, collaborations lead to thoughtful designs.

    I practiced these skills while making projects on social topics and its nuances. Leading to diverse topics such as a visual database on imaging in the media, personalising a social topic through storytelling and others.

    I like to help organisations with thoughtful graphic design and visual stories, to communicate your message clearly.


    → You can contact me for a chat through email or find me at LinkedIn, Instagram, or Behance

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