#wiswisdahm is an art project that transforms the novels by Haruki Murakami into data illustrations.
The next book will be Norwegian Wood.
The illustrations use a shoji-inspired visualization system.
The system visualizes the stories using simplified sliding doors
that open according to the length of a chapter.
The longest chapter of a book has the doors fully open,
the doors of shorter chapters open only partially.
Both the overall grid of the shoji and the background color are
inspired by story elements.
All colors are sourced from Sanzo Wada's A Dictionary of Color Combinations.
Click an illustrations to read the details
(these contain some spoilers).
#wisiwsdahm is a project by Erik Driessen.
Visit his Dutch page or English page
for more background information
and contact details.
The data for the illustrations are sourced from Dutch editions.
To support this project,
buy Erik a coffee
or consider buying
a limited edition art print.