I was contacted through Avison Young Studio Project Services to create two large wall-filling artworks for DNV’s new office in Houston, Texas. They wanted to visually represent part of the data they provide, preferably with an energy and maritime focus, in a captivating way. I used two datasets from their “Energy Transition Outlook” to show the change in energy consumption between 2000 and 2050, and the projected maritime energy demand over the same period as a spiral with time flowing outward and the density of certain colors representing the different energy sources.
DNV was interested in very abstract, visually mesmerizing data artworks to place inside two conference rooms, using public data found on their Veracity platform. The “Energy Transition Outlook” white paper they had just released seemed like a great option as it contained both sections dedicated to the maritime sector and general energy sectors.
I created four different design concepts for DNV to choose from, each with its own unique visual approach to representing the data (see three of them in the image farther below). And all with a water/maritime angle to the visual design. The spiral design was chosen as the favorite. It shows time flowing outward, with different colord “streams” representing the percentage of (expected) energy consumed in that year (the more streams with that color, the higher the percentage).
In the two legends below you can see which colors represent which energy source for each artwork. I based these on the DNV house style.
Especially in the “Maritime Energy Demand” artwork, you can see how the center is all in the deep dark color representing coal, while as time progresses outward into the future, the colors shift to much lighter colors representing gas, ammonia, renewables and other options.
The two final artworks were printed on conference room walls of approximately 3 meters high by 4 meters wide (about 118" x 157").
