Romel Keith Agtang
Netsomnia
About the designer
Hi, my name is Romel Keith, an ‘artisigner’ working in progress and a passionate sky-glancer. As a practicing graphic designer, I create to tell stories and information while through art, I explore the darkness and colourfulness of nature. Both define my purpose as a visual communicator, in order to help bring awareness, bring visual therapy, and to preserve knowledge. I ought to give my work a sense of life of their own. So that they can speak for themselves when they’re out there. I believe that constant experimentation can give as much as abstraction to ambiguity, as well as immersion to comprehensibility. No matter what you do at the moment, whether you aren’t inspired or absolutely loving it, just put your heart and mind into it!
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“Book of Revelations” is an experimental book that combines a series of data visualizations and illustrated pages. It is a visual essay that reveals trends concerning bedtime internet use and sleep durations. The data were extracted from an online survey conducted with more than 200 participants, in which denotes the declining of sleep and increasing online presence at night.
A Wake-Up Call to Sleep – The structure of the book is meant to represent a hybrid of old and new media and the concept of a bedtime story book (in the perspective of a sleep deprived person). The contents serve as an information source, detailing the possible outcomes of smartphone reliance and the consequences of lack of sleep. Each data visualization is also meant to be deciphered through augment reality. Therefore, creating a sense of collaboration between the print (reality) and the digital (new media).
The data are expressed subtly into complete abstraction in order to facilitate an immersive approach. This is to break from the conventionality of representing critical data, making it more engaging and to relatively address short attention spans.
Relevant data from the survey are expressed graphically and supplemented by illustrations to contextualize each, so to provide narrative and variations. The book is populated with various information in order to mimic the nature of never-ending information as experienced in the internet and in the culture of social media.
