Schedules of this sort, the size of small posters, would be fixed daily to walls and notice boards. The first problem in the design of this piece was how to pack a large amount of information into a limited space; the second problem was finding ways of making that information as accessible as possible.

↑ Detail of the schedule.

In a successful schedule, visitors must at least be able to pick out events by time. The ideal document would also let visitors view events organized by sport and geographic location. I could accomplish this by providing several typographic tables, each containing the same information indexed by a different characteristic, but this schedule provides the same information with less duplication.

This schedule operates partly as a table, and partly as a graph. Visitors can access information by time (reading downward) or by sport (reading left to right). Venues in the Athens suburbs are flagged with yellow stripes, and those farther away are marked with red stripes. Events are clearly marked by gender.

alternate version

An second version of the schedule takes the form of a more traditional tabular listing. Visitors can access information by time (reading downward) or by sport (reading left to right).

↑ This alternate version is more compact and easier to learn, but it does not graph times as precisely.

↑ Detail of the alternate version. Events are listed on the left, grouped by sports. On the right, a small timeline shows event starting times.