I denna andra bloggpost i vår serie om generösa användargränssnitt beskriver Olivia Vane, designer och doktorand vid Royal College of Design, den prototyp hon utvecklat på uppdrag av Riksantikvarieämbetet. Om du vill kan du själv också testa den!
Portraits from the past can tell us a lot. What did people wear? What sort of people were painted? How did they want to be presented? ‘Faces of Sweden’ is an interactive timeline showcasing historical portraits from the Nordic Museum, Stockholm. You can use it to cut through time, compare different periods and see how clothes, hairstyles and the style of portraiture changes. The timeline displays 785 portraits (mostly oil paintings but also prints, silhouettes, photographs) dating between 1570-2003.
Portraiture in the Nordic Museum collection has been collected for its cultural heritage value; the paintings serve as a record of what people wore, what kinds of people were depicted, and the artwork that decorated people’s homes.
Select small time spans to focus on and compare different periods:
Or by selecting a wide time span, cut across time to observe changes:
’Faces of Sweden’ is built in Javascript/d3.js. The code is available as open source. Data is drawn from the K-samsök/SOCH API.
