My Infographic

In this lesson we had to create a infographic on a specific question that was given to us, from the survey that we took on classroom behaviour last week.

My question was 'Do you think that you should be allowed to listen to music on headphones while you are doing your own work?'

I created my infographic on Photoshop as I am more familiar with this software, and because I have used it before. First I went on Adobe Kuler: colour wheel to look for a suitable triad of colours. Here are the colours that I ended up using on my infographic, seen on the poster below.

After finding the colours I wanted, I did some research on Google images of other infographics, to gather ideas and to get examples of what Steve was looking for.

I drew most of this by hand and therefore no other images were used off the internet. The tick represents the 'yes, always' option and the cross over the other headphone, represents 'no, never'. Finally the tick by the picture of the girl, represents the last option which was, 'yes, as long as you can still hear what the lecturer is saying'.  I think these images do display each option clearly, even though the actual options are not written, but instead are presented as drawn images.

Infographics and Visualising Data

Infographics is a visual representation of data that helps the audience understand the information that is being presented, usually in a unique or memorable way.

In today's lesson with Steve, i experimented with different tools on Illustrator and came up with a few abstract images. I learnt lots of techniques including; creating spirals, wrapping text around it, using the swirl tool, inserting colours for fill and lines. Here is a screen shot of some of the images i created, using these new techniques.

Although this is not representing data (as this was a practice), this has helped me with my understanding of Illustrator. Also today i completed a visualising data sheet, where i sketched a few ideas of presented the information of a graph that was provided. Here are a few images that i found off of Google, which is a good representation of information that is more interesting for someone to visualise, rather than just a simple, boring graph or table.

There are many different ways of interpreting data, and therefore many different ways of presenting it. From very simple, to really unique and complicated, they are all more pleasing to the eye than the usual, very boring table or list.