Objective: Encouraging attentive noticing
Research focus: Seasonal interconnections, tangible systems
& food interdependence
& food interdependence
Taste the Seasons: Discover Florida's Fruit Harvests
An illustrative data visualization project mapping Florida’s seasonal fruit harvests and temperature shifts through participatory research, illustration, and risograph printing—designed to encourage attentive noticing of food, climate, and environmental systems.
Developed in Gainesville, Florida, this project is grounded in place-based design research using University of Florida IFAS resources, including Buy Fresh From Florida, and conversations with faculty researchers. Seasonal crop data was translated into a twelve-month fruit calendar that visualizes local harvest cycles alongside gradual temperature changes, embedding environmental information within an accessible, everyday format.
The calendar was produced using a four-color risograph process (cyan, yellow, magenta, and black), embracing the medium’s layered textures, misregistration, and material variability. These handmade qualities mirror the project’s conceptual focus on interdependence—emphasizing that food and environmental systems, like the printed surface itself, are layered, relational, and shaped by process rather than flat or neutral.
Inspirations include the graphic clarity and playful systems of Ryota Kemas, Kaz Matt, The Printed Peanut, and Alice Oehr, alongside human-centered data visualization (Giorgia Lupi) and material-led uses of color as meaning (Sister Corita Kent).
Acknowledgement: This project was developed under the guidance of Eury Kim, my Thesis Chair and professor at the University of Florida.
