{"id":121,"date":"2009-08-26T21:12:57","date_gmt":"2009-08-27T01:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/?p=121"},"modified":"2009-08-26T21:12:57","modified_gmt":"2009-08-27T01:12:57","slug":"interview-with-yingyan-huang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/2009\/08\/interview-with-yingyan-huang\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Yingyan Huang"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yingyan Huang<\/a>, who created the two visualizations on the unity of Scripture<\/a> from the last post, graciously agreed to answer a few questions for me about her work:<\/p>\n

Where did you get the inspiration for your pieces? What was your motivation to create them?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Initially I had started with ideas of creating an information visualizations on Paul’s journeys and the spread of Christianity. As I explored the topic further, I realized that the focus, as a Christian, should not be on Paul but really on Christ Himself. Since the objective of Paul’s journeys and ministry was Christ. So I began exploring the Gospels and the role of Christ in the Bible. Ultimately my motivation is to visually demonstrate, given the Bible as a historical relic and literature, Christ’s centrality in the Bible and His reality because of the sheer number of references to Him found in the OT even before His birth. <\/p>\n

What was the process you used to create them? Where did you get the data? What tools did you use?<\/strong><\/p>\n

My data was obtained through many reading and primarily comes from the Tyndale Life Application Study Bible, ESV Study Bible, and The Christ of the Covenants<\/a> by O. Palmer Robertson. I cross referenced the passages from ESV’s history of salvation and Palmer’s book against the 250 events in the life of Christ from the Tyndale study bible. Some computer programs I used include Adobe Illustrator, Acrobat, and Microsoft Excel. <\/p>\n

With infographics, there\u2019s often a tension between making something attractive and clearly portraying the information you want to communicate. As a designer, how did you resolve that tension with these pieces?<\/strong><\/p>\n

As mentioned above, I basically cross-referenced the bible verses\/passages to create data points. I did not create my own data, merely synthesized available data that have been around for centuries to create the data sets.<\/p>\n

Why do graphic designers create infographics about the Bible?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Perhaps the Bible remains a choice subject matter because it is rich with intricacies and complexities that come together so harmoniously. <\/p>\n

What are you up to these days?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I am currently interning\/working at a magazine as a art\/photo assistant and assisting in teaching an information design class at Parsons. I am also cooking and baking to test and create recipes. Additionally I am involved in starting a new college ministry (City Campus Ministry) and a teaching assistant for the Children’s Ministry at my church, Redeemer Presbyterian Church<\/a> in NYC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yingyan Huang, who created the two visualizations on the unity of Scripture from the last post, graciously agreed to answer a few questions for me about her work: Where did you get the inspiration for your pieces? What was your motivation to create them? Initially I had started with ideas of creating an information visualizations […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131,"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions\/131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}