Exploring ways to interpret facts and observations through information graphics.
Information Graphics: The designer is an observer, problem solver and illustrator of information. Simplifying complex data to convey understanding through memorable design which is essential for visual communicators.
We were shown examples of different ways we can interpret something in a graphic way or how we can interpret the same thing but in a different way, the information would be the same but shown differently.
This was created by Harry Beck.
A student created this and chose to 'map closeness' of family, friends, tutors and others. she presented herself through straight lines, using different colours for each family member, friend and so on.
Task.... After looking at the examples, we had to create something similar for ourselves, interpret information through information graphics, using colour and graphical representation to represent the information.
I decided to focus on food and visually display the food I normally have but compare before I moved to University with after.
I split the page into two, before and after, on the side, I wrote low, medium and high which represents how much I eat a certain kind of food and I think it's easy to understand, I used colours to colour code each food so it's easier to understand and I think it looks neater and better than just doing it the same colour. My one improvement would be, instead of the lines for 'after' rising up, I would do it horizontally like the lines for 'before' and instead of the lines 'before' and 'after' being connected, I just place them according to how much I eat them because it looks like the lines that are rising will keep rising which is misleading information because there's some food that I eat on a constant level.
