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Design Category
Information design, 2002
Design firm
The New York Times (New York, New York)
Collection
(2003) AIGA 365: 24
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This chart appeared as part of a special section in advance of the 2002 Winter Olympics and illustrates the men’s downhill skiing course called “Grizzly.” It shows how the course’s design tests the skills of downhill skiers and the strategies the skiers use to navigate it. The challenge was to combine the numerical data and the descriptions from the skiers with the image of the course. Too much math and it looks like homework. Too much image and it loses focus. The solution was to use an orange line to highlight the course and to chart the estimated speed of the skiers by varying the width of that line.