How to know better different kinds of fonts

Hey bloggers!

Today I want to share with you a very useful infographic for the goal of my blog, which is explaining infographics from a very simple basis! Probably most of your have struggles in choosing which type of font you should use in your infographics. So, this infographic might clarify you a little bit more...

This graphic has also been taken from the site I already recommended you which was: infographically.com and it is a Type Guide.

I think the old-school style of this graphic is very efficient because it reaches the goal of giving the reader a guide of the different fonts we can use in our works and it's also aesthetically pleasant because the reader can feel that there is an equilibrium between the different parts of the graphic.

It think this graphic present a duality. It's figurative because it shows exactly which are the kind of fonts that we are talking about, but at the same time is abstract because it uses some a pie chart. 

As for the density, I think it's a little bit dense because there are many kinds of fonts which are explained and but as it's well organized as I said I don't believe that anyone could feel overwhelmed in front of this infographic. 

The graphic is rather functional because it uses all its elements with an informative purpose, there are few things (only the title and the speaking boxes of the What's it saying?) which only aim to embellish the graphic. 

As it's talking all the time about fonts and its characteristics and meanings I think it's unidimensional. 

I think this graphic is original inits topic because it's making methaliterature, using the words to talk about the how the words are composed itselfs (in this case of fonts). However, in its inside graphics it's not that original because everyone is used to speaking boxes, pie charts or rectangles.

It explains different characteristics and functions of different types of fonts and so the graphic it's novel because it's always adding new information.

I hope you make a look through the graphic because it's very interesting and could help you a lot in understanding and choosing better your fonts!

Sara.

Another unemployment graphic

Hello bloggers!

In this post I want you to look at one of the infographics I found doing a little research in order to get inspiration for my own UE unemployment graphic, which I have already commented on the last post.

Its source is http://one-europe.info/, which is an on-line platform who wants to promote the international debate for the emerging European society, under the motto: Society, Democracy, Europe.

This infographic was accompanying an article about the situation that youngsters suffer from the economical crisis in Europe, which has led an increasing of unemployment. It was published on July of 2013.

This graphic is clearly very well organized. The hierarchy is well established and also directs the eyes of the reader through its different information. It's also not very dense, because although there's quite information it doesn't overwhelm the viewer, perhaps because it's well organized. 

The graphics used are also rather familiars, because everyone knows maps, bar charts, pie charts, and so. There are some decorative elements (like the boy with the videogame) which give more coherence to the topic and unify the style. 

I liked this graphic because it depicted the topic of unemployment in a serious, but not boring way. That's why I used myself a neutral background like this one in my EU unemployment infographic and also used a colored map to make the reader a more clear idea of the overall situation in Europe.

Sara.

EU unemployment graphic

Hey bloggers!

Today I want to share with you another infographic I made at class with InDesign. This one is about the unemployment at the European Union.

Style (colors and fonts):

I've chosen this colors because I wanted to make it look serious enough as the information comes from an official source (the EUROSTAT). I also wanted to play with the blueish tonalities of the European Union flag, so that's why the titles and the background are in this tonality. As for the map I wanted to depict the countries in two groups: the green ones (that have a good unemployment situation) and the red ones (that have a bad unemployment situation). This two divisions follow if they are under the average EU unemployment ratio or if they are over this ratio.

As for the fonts, I though that having chosen a rather serious colors I had to pick up a eye-catching font for the title in order to avoid the reader being bored at a first glance of my graphic.The explanation text are in a more serious and simpler font because I believed that the important thing of the explanations was the information, the data they were giving and so I didn't want to distract the reader with a funny or more complex font.

Organization: 
I've divided my work into three sections, each one containing one graphic. I also wanted to make clear the hierarchy by marking the questions which entitle each sections with big blue circles or with a lateral band.

Goal: 

I think this infographic results quite familiar, because all the graphics are commonly understandable and easy to recognize. So I think that it could aim to an adult audience who is interested in economics, politics and the European Union. I guess it could be publishable on a website, together with an article explaining how the economic crisis has affected the EU.

I'd like to hear your comments on my graphic, because I think that there are some points that can still be improved. I'm not very glad of the bottom graphic, I think it looks very plain and simple compared with the others. What would you do about it?

Sara.

Art heists infographic

Hey bloggers!

Today I want to share with you my art heists infographic. The goal was doing a graphic which explained a sequence of chronological events, in this case the art robbery in the Isabella Gardner's Museum at Boston in 1990. Thus, the information should be explained the more graphically possible in order to make the reader get the process the thieves followed to perpetrate this heist.

Structure:

So, I thought it would be interesting to depict this sequence of events through a footsteps path in order to follow one of the main principles of graphic desginers,which is to direct the eyes. 

Style: 

I did a little bit of research on another information graphics related with crimes and also art in order to get inspiration.

I got to the conclusion that a sober backgournd was the most suitable for this topic. I also wanted to look for a sort of "detective", "investigation" style, that's why I placed the target icon in front of the museum's image and also why I did a kind of radar location of the robbery place.

Errors:

The bottom part is the one of which I'm less convinced about, because I think that the bar chart doesn't really fit the other styles in the graphic- Perhaps I should have unified this a little bit more. I also know that I failed in the organization and the hierarchy of the graphic, because, although the initial idea of the footsteps path was good I didn't made it work in a such efficient way :(

I'd like to hear what you think from this graphic, because I think the initial idea was not bad, but I'm aware that there's a lot to improve! Help me with your feedback!

Sara.

Airplane crashes

Hey bloggers!

Today I bring you another infographic that I made at class. This one is about airplane crashes in the U.S. The purpose was doing a graphic based on an Excel document with many data about all the airplane crashes in the world since the beginning of the last century. I though it would be interesting to focus only in one country and that's the reason why I chose the United States. 

Who could it be addressed? I think this graphic would be interesting for being addressed to the American audience, probably could be publishable in a newspaper beside an article explaining the dramatic consequences of plane crashes. I've also made the graphic quite simple and understandable for everybody (maps and linear graphics are very familiar to everyone), so I think it could aim to every American adult.

Colors:

As the topic was quite serious I wanted the graphic to focus on the information that was given rather than on the colors. That's why I chose a neutral background, to give seriousness and formality to the graphic. I've also chose not very bright, saturated colors on the maps because as I said I wanted to give it a serious, more journalistic style. 

Fonts: 

As for the fonts, I chose this neutral, very simple and plain black font for the data and the explanations and this purple more impacting font to catch a little bit more the attention of the reader. 

Organization:

I though it would be interesting to cover the main questions that an American adult could answer himself in front of this topic. That's why I distributed the work into three different graphics. First, a map of where had most accidents happened (concretely in which State) and where not. Secondly, a line graphic in which we could see the evolution of the amount of airplane crashes from 2000 to 2009, that answers to the question: In which years have there been more plane accidents? And lastly, in which has died more people, focusing on the three "worst" States that have suffered most fatalities in their plane crashes.

Style: 

In order to give it a more dynamic style, because I was aware that if not the graphic could seem quite dull, I've found nice to connect all the graphics with a plane icon and its fly path. With this I also aimed to follow one of the principles of graphic designers that is directing the eyes. This way the reader is given an extra guidance through the graphic and the order in which the information has to been processed is clearly established.

Errors:

I'm not quite sure about the distribution of space in this graphic, because at first I thought it was good, but now that I see it again I find that there is many blank space and that the text explanation in the second graphic looks like if it was floating there for no reason. I guess I should have managed that better.

I hope you've like it and I hope you can leave me your suggestions and opinions on my graphic!

Sara.

Another Solar System infographic

Hello bloggers!

Today I want to share with you another version of the Solar System infographic. This one is the one who did my classmate Ariadna, in whose blog (www.cinemagraphic.blogspot.com.es) you can find interesting cinema graphics commented by her!

Organization:

This is how the infographic should have really been done, because she made very clear the distance between the planets and also organized the information into main topics. I really like the style of the bottom text boxes, because it looks like a textbook style. I think she should have unified the other text boxes with that style. 

Colors:

She chose depicting the planets in a more abstract way, which is completely fine because she had already a great amount of text and I think that this way she ensured to give the reader less visual charge. 

In my opinion, the background is too light. I should have put a more intense black picture of the outer space as the background. But that's only a matter of likes I guess!

What do you guys think about Ariadna's infographic?
Don't be shy, lave your comments below :)

Sara.

My CV

Hey bloggers!

Today I want to share with you my CV project, as we did in class a task consisting on represent your CV (or in my case how I wanted to be my CV in the future) in a graphical way.

Style and colors chosen:

As I had previously looked for other CVs graphically depicted on Google, I did realized that the more easier and clarified the information was, the more understandable was the CV. So, I've chosen blue colors (light blue for the background and navy blue for stressing on some titles and graphics) because they look very serious and professional and there are also very quiet colors that don't look too loud. I also complement the CV with white, as I think it complements very much the blues in this task of making the CV look professional. In the end, I picked up orange for the title in which there is my name and for cheering up the CV, because if not it could look too boring. Orange is a color which transmits positivism and energy and I think that this two adjectives suit my personality, so I would like to transmit it too in my CV!

Distribution:

I organized my CV in: Education and Training, Work Experience, Languages, Interests, Skills, Desired Employment and Contact Me. 

I though that locating the Contact Me on the upper part was essential so the interested people who could possibly hire me, had no troubles in finding my email, mobile phone or so. I also like the idea of attempting to do a time-line with my education. I don't know if this aim is clearly fulfilled and it looks like this in the graphic, but this was the initial purpose! As I don't have work experience I tried to make how I'd like my CV to be like in the future. So I though that it could be easier for the reader to identify the places in which I "have" worked if there were if a map. As for the Desired Employment (in which title now I've seen there's a spelling error!), I though that it would be more clear if I organized the fields in which a journalist can work in a wheel. 

Errors:

Looking at it again, I'm not very happy of how the Interests part looks. I think the "comic style" of this smiling face doesn't really suit the other part of the graphic. When I did it I was thinking in how to depict my interests and I though it would be interesting to represent it in a human brain, but as I didn't know how to draw a brain I drew this possibly in a more "childish" style. I also don't like the right-bottom part, the Skills one, because I think that the last rectangle looks like floating there for no reason at all. I should have though in how to organize this in a more effective way.

I want to know your opinion about it! So please leave a comment below and tell me what I can change in order to make this infographic better!

Thank you for reading,

Sara.