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504 HOURS
How are you feeling today - exactly? Cinthia Wen, the creative director at Noon, tackled this question scientifically in 504 Hours, a poster she donated to an AIGA benefit auction of works on the theme "Within Four Walls." She says, "For me, it was about the effects of city living. Since I like psychology, I documented my mood for 21 days by the hour, and then I color-coded them and created the poster out of it. "Each horizontal bar is a day," Wen continues. "Blue is when I'm calm - asleep, mainly. Black is when I'm not so happy. And then there's agitation. There's a legend to the left, so you can chart how I did. I also had little symbols: days when I had a revelation, and days when I drank too much." Wen made notes hourly on a scratchpad; the visualization of the notes came later. "How do you turn things you can't visualize - such as time, mood, and space — into tangible, visible ideas?" Wen asks. "Because you live life every day, you can't visualize your time. When you look at this, it feels like it's all about color — just color stripes. But when you look at it from afar, there's a certain pulse to it." Jude Stewart, Step Magazine Noon
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