ATLAS OF ANXIETY

(Graduation Project)

The Atlas of Anxiety was honored with the Red Dot Design Award.

The Atlas of Anxiety has been published in the :output 10 yearbook of the :output foundation.

I designed texts, maps and information, which describe the expression of various types of anxiety and visually deal with the emotions of anxiety, unpredictability, and uncertainty. Anxiety should not be awakened by visual clichés, but rather be provoked in a subtle, irritating way.

The objective of this project was to compare rational and irrational anxiety and to represent this information graphically.

The main chapter of the book contains of the results of a questionnaire I undertook. I asked every embassy in Germany, as well as every German embassy abroad, to answer two questions:
What do you think the people in X anxious of?
What do you think is the greatest menace to X?

The answers are displayed in the inverted colors of each nations flag.

The evaluation of the answers compares the anxieties of different countries with their real situation. (e.g. the anxiety of poverty, compared with the nation’s gross domestic product.)

In addition I have dealt with regional specific anxiety disorders and have displayed anxiety in the form of charts and statistics.