Overview
As our first exercise in Studio I, we designed a self-portrait poster to introduce ourselves to our new classmates. The project was described as an information design challenge, and we were encouraged to use Richard Saul Wurman's "five hat racks" as a place to begin organizing our data.

Process
I began by generating roughly a half-dozen lists of data about myself. One of these lists included excerpts from the description of my personality type according to the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. This list immediately felt more meaningful than other lists I had compiled. While the other lists were filled with meaningful objects, or locations, or favorites in a given category, this list provided a much more precise depiction of who I am. As I continued working with the excerpts from the Myers-Briggs description, I found that I wanted to annotate their text with my own, providing examples of how each characteristic played out in real life.

Solution
My goal for the final poster was to reveal appropriate and interesting information about myself in a manner that allowed for multiple levels of inquiry and engagement. My final poster, measuring 56 x 34 inches, could be read in at least three ways. The first focuses on the Myers-Briggs continua and where I fall on each scale. The second level consists of relatively short first-person paraphrasing of the excerpts from the description, and the third grounds those excerpts in my own experience.