Saturday, May 10, 2008

info grahic revisions

Final reviews are upon us and my first project to get reworked along with the "how to" is My info graphic. today I worked on some variations getting rid of the graph paper and post-it notes.

original:



















I first tried just removing the graph paper and the Post-its as people in crit though that they didn't represent the magazine very well. I feel that by doing this though I lost a lot of the depth that those created.




















next I tried created a collage of pages and images from the magazine and using that as a back ground for the info graphic with pieces of torn paper to add depth and readability to the text on the info graphic.


















I feel like this is headed in the right direction, retains the depth that the original had, its using the hand generated theme that i want, and is more coheasive with the theme of the magazine. but i'm afraid its getting to busy with the background graphic so i'm looking for ideas on how to dea with that.

1 comment:

jamie said...

Yes, the third one is definitely in the right direction - the most visually interesting.

Go back in and address the coloring lines. Those squiggles were your first take at it, but now that your piece has evolved I think you can find a formal solution (still color coded) that is visually more apt. First, rethink the colors themselves (not so primary). Then re-think the application of the colors.

Spell check and grammar check.

Watch that the quantities are in order (36%, 37%).

You have an opportunity here to clearly visualize the quantities through scale. Your bar divisions are all equal spaced, when they could better help visualize the differing amounts. 2% is much thinner than 11%.