Infographic Timeline Seminar

 PROBLEM SOLVING

Design & Communication; Exploring ways to interpret facts and observations through

INFORMATION GRAPHICS:

The designer is an observer, problem solver and illustrator of information…

Simplifying complex data to convey understanding through memorable design

- an essential skill for visual communicators.

Powerful and disturbing facts can use the language of information graphics  to emphasis important elements in new  and interesting ways. Although information graphics is considered a more neutral voice through which to convey information: the design outcomes are visually powerfully and expressive.

TODAY’s WORKSHOP TASK

GRAPHICS :

Create a GRAPHIC CV or

Curriculum Vitae meaning LIFE STORY

Use colour and graphical representation to consider the

important people you have come across in your lifetime:

Family, friends, influential musicians, writers, actors, artists and

map their significance over time and life events.

ANIMATORS :

Storyboard an Animated CV

or Curriculum Vitae meaning LIFE STORY

Using a timeline with symbols, objects and dynamic framing to

represent important people and life events.

I prefer this creative task as it pushes us to find a strong concept and develop it in less than an hour  it is very helpful especially when working against time and the dead line is just a few minutes away.Delivering an idea that is already shaped and ready for a presentation or is refined enough  to be presented can improve our quick response to a brief and also support us in being creative .


Here is an amazing example that explains the process and showcases different styles of info graphics.

The animation looks lovely, simple and playful. I loved the way they animated the text, especially in the beginning when the words were hanging by a small rope by the sealing. The only problem that I have with this is the typeface. Most of the times we don't really pay attention to it unless is terrible or is used in an artistic way. But I feel like here it just made to reading harder and in some certain parts, it was plain irritating.

My approach 

I mapped my ''Body Awareness'' from the age of seven year old to nineteen taking account of media influences such as magazines ,commercials, family observations, society beauty standards and role models along the years like  artists and tutors. Although it begun as a class task I realized how the my distorted body image have influenced my life and how even if it didn't push me to constant dieting I still feel that I have a very unhealthy relationship with my own body and with food.The chart had the goal to track my eating rabbits and pinpoint the moment when this body awareness started. 

 I remember the people in my life pointing out how my thighs are getting fatter or  my hips don't fit as it ''should'' in jean however I never felt unsure of my femininity or physical beauty  especially whit the opposite sex but there was something about constantly over analysis my defect when I was just by myself in front of a mirror.Moreover I have over 14 food journals were I tracked my food intake and I use to calculate all my calories by the end of the day for years ,however I didn't restrict my food intake so the big question was why I felt like I should write everything down and be in control with what I eight.

The first graphic shows my confidence divided in body image-what I thought and saw and my mind and skills,all calculated by reading my old journals and focusing on the important events as from the first day of school to my final exam in high school.The goal of this tracking system was to determine the exact moment or event that started my unhealthy habits related to food but also the life changes and the methods of getting back on tracks,

from obsessive calories counting to  clean plant base eating

First sketch: