I'm real excited to see the end products of these along with the info graphs. I'll keep trying to upload the newest ones but with the critique today, we are going with the article about marriage proposal etiquette since my graphs will be better suited for that.
This is one of my favorite information graphic. I first saw it during a lecture about organizing information during fall foundation year and it became super memorable and I still remember it to this day. There's many elements in this whole diagram and it was all successfully conveyed. The tan line shows how many people Napoleon has in his army during his march from France to Russia and the black line shows the number going back to France. Minard also shows the temperature at the bottom for the returning trip. On the background of the traveling lines, there's also lines and text to tell where the army was geographically, like rivers and battles/cities. Whenever the line weight changes, he puts the amount of people alive and there's also scale for the distance on the bottom right corner ish. So really, in this one diagram, Minard uses time, stats, and map. He used lines and colors to indicated different aspects along with text to support his visual.
The design is pretty bad on the linear progression but its hard to stick so much on an 8.5 x 11 space, but I tried to go with a gridded system thats not very evident.
So my weather was dawn, wind, rain, and thunder. I wanted to create a sense of a calm morning but I don't think it turned out that way. I did experimentations with set type, which in some way I like but I felt like I should've tried other things as well. Composition wise, I think it's dramatic with the sweeping motion so it looks violent and hectic. It was hard to integrate it into one sweeping motion. From previous posts, you can see my transitions were the hardest part but I think I achieved it. For each phenomena, I used set type but then they are expressive in their own way. For example, wind has a wind effect to it and rain looks wet and dawn has those shadows like the sun is rising. Throughout all three pieces, I kept with that sweeping motion with few adjustments so that it still made sense but still cohesive with each other. I didn't want the ABC logo and tag line to be TOO significant so it's a bit smaller but still has the attention since it's on white and nothing is really "surrounding" it. I have my flash but not uploaded yet. So I'll post that once it's done.
In the end, I think I successfully conveyed the sins. The ones I had trouble with was gluttony and greed since they are similar with the idea of having too much. Wrath could probably be revised now that I see it with the whole set. Lighting wasn't such an issue since I just used natural lighting so it more or less came out to be what it is. I learned the thinking abstractly but still conveying the message is harder than it looks. During the process, the dot project was in the back of my mind so I tried to reference that. It was a little harder since its paper that I'm dealing with so there's really no way to make it look exactly like my thumbnails, so I kind of gave up on that. I tried to keep the circular paper consistent so that the book would flow better and only the composition and the color would change. In all though, I'm happy about how it came out. If it's not representing the sins, it would still be a nice book.
I'm feeling the first 2 ideas better than the last, simply because when the details are pure black, I can't leave them white so like the bench and the leaf looks awkward. Color wise, I'm liking the brown with the pinkish peach or with the red. Orange seems to be screaming too much and it works better in the outline rather than the filled in ones.
Only the bottom side needs help, where thunder and rain is.
And I need to fix the ascending line so it's not so straight edged...
Most of the people I asked got them but I'm redoing them still. I think I know what direction to go so hopefully I will get it by tomorrow since it's due soon.
We decided that sticking with fall colors but with a touch of happiness would be the way to go. So the browns, oranges, and red are staying because my story is set in autumn. I might not use any blues but it depends so I left them in the mix so we shall see. Same value is a good idea so I'm going to try to stick to that. The peaches (I had lighter ones previously) seems the be the ideal "happiness" color right now so I just darkened it a tad to make it not too light when it prints out. But yup, off to color in my set.
I'm liking the first and the last ones better because you can still see my gaps and it keeps it true to the original more. I'm kind of leaning more towards the bottom one but we shall see.
I tried to split the billboards into 2 and not just one. I think I like it being one more than having it separated.
I didn't find the bus template until later. :(
I forgot to take out the "weather at your fingertips" on here, but I fixed it already. Imagine it not there. >.>
The only side I'm having trouble with is thunder and rain because both are so busy that its hard to make it not busy. I tried though.
