Seminar: Infographics

U.S Gun Deaths in 2013

Following on from our lecture in the morning, our seminar tried to reflect what we'd previously learnt - with Tracy we looked at problem solving design and communication. In short, we wanted to look at info-graphics (interpretations of facts and observations through graphic design). They help to simplify complex data to convey understanding, which is an essential skill for graphic designers - it needs to be memorable but visually beautiful.

The examples we explored in the seminar were from the Glasgow School of Art; one students work, shown above, by Sarah Jane Cassell - she chose to represent the "closeness" of her relations to other people, be that friends, family or others, using different colours for each person. The affect of her work is quite empowering to me - it represents quite clearly how she feels about each person, showing dips in the relationship and cut off points, leaving questions open to the people interpreting it (did she stop becoming friends with them or were other factors included?)

The idea for my response to the seminar came from this. I wanted to reflect my entire personality; from well-being, relationship, living arrangements, game time and work load. My idea was to have the same lines that Sarah had, using them to represent how happy this makes me. It was also a good practice for my proposal project, as I wanted to try something with minimalist/infographics for this.