Day: November 17, 2015

I wanted to add some little, not necessarily noticeable details, to my infographic. Here are some examples:

I decided to add a curve to this box. This is because the fact above it is about ‘curvature’, and so I thought adding a curved bottom to the box would add to this fact, as well as make the box look more interesting.

This fact is about speed, and a way of portraying speed is often by using arrows. I then decided to change the shape of the box by adding two arrows on the sides of it, to visualise the idea of speed.

To make the word ‘slower’ actually appear to be slower, I decided to make the text bold and italic, as though it is heavier and so being slowed down. I then made the ‘fast moving’ light and italic, to make it appear as though it is moving fast and is lighter than the word ‘heavy’.

Einstein had a lightbulb moment when coming up with the equation E=MC2, so I decided to give ‘E’, which could represent Einstein as well as energy, a lightbulb too.

This is the first infographic I created:

Things I like about this

• The space colour scheme from Adobe Kuler
• The typeface used for the title
• The typeface for the main body
• The stamp I created in the top right corner

Things I don’t like

• The layout is messy
• There is no hierarchy
• The bottom speech bubble

So after creating my first infographic, I decided I would go back to looking at other people’s infographics. I needed to work on the hierarchy of my information as there was no order on my page, so I initially thought of turning my infographic into a giant, colourful grid to try and make it easier to read.

This is my second attempt:

Things I like

• The new colour scheme – there is more variety than with the first one

Things I don’t like

• The squares system does not work
• Still no hierarchy

So after creating this, I noticed something else about other infographics: they are often long so the viewer has to scroll down, which creates hierarchy and an order of reading on the page. So I decided to create a longer infographic where my reader will have to scroll down or read down the page too. To separate the information, I then decided to put my information in boxes that span across the page.

My third attempt:

It is still working progress, hence the screenshot with my colour scheme on Illustrator. However, I much happier with this final infographic idea. It still fits an A2 page, but is easier to read, more pleasing to the eye and has an order to it.