For my feedback, I'd most like help knowing whether my use of white space is more effective here, whether pictures and text are still competing, and whether the timeline is clear. Do you know where to start and end? Also, I have two drafts, one with multiple colors for my timeline vs. one with a …
Blog Post #2: Sophie Project 1 Draft 2
For my second draft, I was really concerned with establishing my content and filling in the graphs I had left in my first draft. I also wanted to use color more effectively. The most notable change is how the content is now organized. I thought a timeline was a better way to organize my narrative …
Project 1: Sophie’s Visual Explanation Draft 1
My visual explanation project seeks to explain the way dogs are mitigating desertification in Mongolia. I think there are three components that are most important to understanding this concept. The first is the issue of desertification in Mongolia, where the country's history and economy are driven by pastoral nomadism, but as nomads lose goats to …
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Blog Post 1: What is effective information design?
I chose three examples of information design, all from different food magazines. Two of them are instructions for food-related techniques, not recipes, and the third seeks to give information about different types of "wellness drinks." The first example comes from an issue of Saveur, in an article about soba noodles. This graphic seeks to teach …
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Design For Understanding 