EX 17 Movement/Motion

Option 2: two examples of navigation

 

I think the most challenging part of creating this infographic was all the information, the designer had to think about how to separate the content. The designer did this by creating larger, highlighted title texts that sets the topic for the information being presented. The "titles" are in the lines (I think they're supposed to be like pipes--since this infographic is about water), so the topic is separated from other texts because it is highlighted by the text being in the thick lines. The titles I am talking about are the texts that say "Where is all the water," "Access to safe drinking water by region," "How does water get contaminated," etc. The blue and red lines also help with navigating through the graphic because they separate the different subjects into their own sections.  The graphic is read left to right, up down, starting with the infographic title and background on the very left, then navigates to the data starting up at the top middle going down, and then to the right side.

The navigation for this infographic was less clear to me. What was unclear was where I was supposed to look next after the main title "Female Soldiers on the front line..." because of the weight of the information at the bottom of the graphic I was drawn there. Despite being unclear how to navigate, the infographic is symmetrical and balanced. The designer solved the problem of displaying the data by separating each statistic with a title, which the designer highlighted with black and made the text white. They also put extra space between each section.

EX 14 Blog Exercise: Tone and Color

The tone is used on the model's figure, it interacts with dimension. This appears to be a design sketch, but the various shades of gray give it more dimension-- making the images seem more dynamic and dimensional.Tone builds on line. That is present in the human figure, which it's form is created by lines, various sizes of brush strokes that create tone.
The colors used are over saturated, which results in charged expressions and emotions. The colors create a kind of dynamism, they compliment the flowyness of the strokes.
I think the colors interact with movement. Movement is implied by the the various brush strokes of the color. The strokes are flowy, and with the many strokes seem to convey multiple movements.