Possible Poster Idea

Now that i have all the information i have needed for my infographic created, i have began assembling it into one informative poster. here is the first draft. It is quite long and not like your average poster size. However i think it could be effective going up the full size of a wall. It is complete with my map of the United States with their statistics, the state flags and why i drew what i did on each state, pie charts helping visualise the sheer amount of death sentences per state, and the details down in writing rather than in image. The task i set myself was to make an infographic/poster that would be clear and easy to understand even through language barriers, i have given many visual and written options within this poster to help audience read, see, visualise the information i am trying to get across and i feel i have done this task pretty well. Here it is…

Pie Charts

I created some pie charts to help visualise the statistic for the death sentences per state in USA since 2007

Here is the top ten states for highest amounts of death sentences…

And here the ten lowest…

Here is all the states in the US that still use the death penalty…

Including More Information

Instead of just showing my image i also want to show some content, i added in type the same information that is shown in the illustration here. Not only does this show the content but it shows in an order of highest to lowest via death sentences so that it’s easier people to see if that is the information they want to know. I may also add some pie charts of other graphs to help people see the numbers more visually.

Death Sentences in USA since 2007

Finally after quite a bit of work i have completed the artistic visual piece for my imaging and data visualisation. I decided to focus this on all the states of America rather than a world wide country to country peice.

I decided to create a map of america with each state divided and easily understandable to those of all languages, for example for Kansas i drew an image of Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz as this film is a world wide phenomenon and Dorothy’s want to go back to Kansas is a memorable and main plot to the story, so therefore when people see Dorothy on the map they could assume or at least hazard a guess that this state is in fact Kansas.

Here is my design…

World Wide Death Penalty Statistics

The statistics i need to turn into a graph

Storyboards

Storyboards are a great way of telling a story with absolutely no text such as the following…

Psycho

 

 

Snow White

 

The Matrix

Aliens

Bladerunner

Visual Narratives

“The story form is a vehicle for conveying information in an easily absorbed manner”- Will Eisner

The effects used in Scott Pilgrim vs The World are a great example of visuals telling as a narrative.

Visual Narratives can be purely graphic without any text, storyboard and graphic novels etc

Andrjez Kimowski- The Secret

 

Scott Mcloud is a fantastic comic book artist and his ted talk was fantastic and very interesting

Scott Mcloud- Ted Talks

Pup contemplates the heat depth of the universe

http://www.drewweing.com/puppages/13pup.html

 

Media provides a window back into the world we live in.

Daniel Merlin- Four Derangements

http://e-merl.com/derange.htm

 

Visualising the World

Looking at how the world has been visualised throughout the years is fasinating to, even from cave paintings, to old maps etc

 

very bad quality video from youtube, but this is a beautiful modern adaption of these cave drawings.

Ice Age Cave Animation

Even early astronomy is very interesting both data wise and visually.

 

Egyptian Relics are just as interesting and even tell a story.

 

Early drawings of the human anatomy are very interesting, Da Vinci’s are very interesting, he had gotten almost everything pretty correct.

 

A student created this animation of the human body looking at the body as an industrial palace, it is very interesting and beautifully thought out.

The Body in An Industrial Palace

Electrical Engineering such as circuit boards  are a prime example

The London Underground has been designed not geographically correct but perfectly easy to read and understand by anyone, use of colours and shapes are used thoughtfully. 

Information Design & Visual Storytelling

Task

Convert a set of statistics into something that can be easily understood by as wide an audience as possible.

We have to do this using the worldwide death penalty stats

Examples of nicely displayed statistics

The newyork times created made a digital graph of how different groups spend their days

 

http://www.gestalten.tv/

It is better to remember simplified pictures than to forget accurate figures- Otto Newrath

http://www.gerdarntz.org/

Gerd Arntz is the guy who designed a lot of every day road signs and airport signs we see. They are easy to understand in every language.

Otl Atcher is another guy who is interesting, he was a german designer who created signs to do with sports, such as swimming and hockey.

 

Imaging and Data Visualisation

On friday, we had our first lecture that is based around the subject of Imaging and Data Visualisation.

“Don’t worry about what the world needs.  Ask what makes you come alive and do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive.- Howard Thurman”

We will have 3 projects (60%) and a blog (40%)

Project 1 Photographic. It is worth 15% and is 3 weeks long

Project 2 Illustrative it is worth 15% and is 3 weeks long

Project 3 Database data visualisation it is 6 weeks long

 

Project 1

Macro/Micro

• use composition rules when taking photographs
• consider visual narratives
• learn how to save and compress images for screen

Macro

• Looking for landscapes
• cityscapes
• seaside
• take on board principles
• research
• consider

Micro

• small individual items
• can relate to macro theme
• sense of narrative

Precautions

• don’t put yourself at risk
• don’t enter property
• don’t try to pass of other peoples work as your own

Research! Research! Research!

• go beyond lecture content
• show off your own interests
• show creative experimentation
• engage fully with module

DO NOT PRESENT-

• ‘Selfies’
• no composition
• not thought through
• blurry/unfocused images
• glare

What we are looking for in Macro

• perspective
• angles
• clarity
• building a story around shots

Micro

• Consider backgrounds
• battered wood etc
• snow

 

• can tidy images on photoshop
• do not fully change or edit

Research

• local photographers
• Rob Durston
• Chris Hill
• Simon Mills
• Michael Taylor
• Paul Seawright

Use

• Instagram
• Pinterest
• Tumblr
• Vizuali
• flickr

all creative material must be uploaded to flickr

A Rough Guide to Composition

• rule of thirds
• looking room
• golden ratio
• finding fresh angles
• keep horizontals, horizontal
• fill the frame
• break the rules
• break the rule of thirds-if it works
• experiment with different framing
• cropping
• take unfocused )not blurry) photographs
• move to create motion blur
• Look at TedTalks
• think about story behind a shot

 

GO CREATE!