Crit notes from Thursday

The message was clear to everyone, here are the comments:

Change the colors on the ties of the men so they don't seem democrat and republican

have the first set of text stay on the screen longer

it may not be necessary to show the men going to work

have the men stay the same size and the buildings change size to make it look like they're walking

add something to the buildings such as windows or the work "work" to make it seem more like work

when the items are popping in at the end add some more to the left hand size such as a jet, yacht, etc.

To suggest:

- excitement at first

- then jealousy

- anger

- motivation

- all in a subdued sense

Who are...

Richard Saul Wurman: an architect and graphic designer from Philadelphia. He is a pioneer of making information understandable. We has written and designed over 80 books and created the TED conferences. He also created the ACCESS travel guide books that were simple and very effective. 

www.wikipedia.org/wiki/richard_saul_wurman

www.wurman.com

Nigel Holmes: was born in 1942 in England. He moved to New York in 1977 when he was hired at Time magazine to design "explanation graphics." He worked there for 16 years and then became a freelance designer, lecturer, and author of books on the subject. He started his own company and has written 6 books on the aspects of informatio

n design.

www.nigelholmes.com

www.

wikipedian.org/wiki/nigel_holmes

Edward Tufte: was born in 1942 in Kansas City, MO. After receiving a PhD from Yale he was hired by Princeton where he taught courses in political economy and data analysis. He also published 3 political sc

ience books. He now teaches statistics, information design, interface design, and political economy

 at Yale University. He is an expert at the presentation of information graphics such as charts and diagrams.

www.wikipedia.org/wiki/edward_tufte

www.edwardtufte.com

I think it is interesting that Edward Tufte is so influencial in information design and he didn't take the creative route in school or choice of beginning career path. Both Nigel Holmes and Richard Saul Wurman had creative backgrounds and chose the direction of information design. It feels like Edward Tufte was first interested in the actual information that the design would convey than the actual design itself.

Mood Board

Images, typefaces, colors, that inspired my storyboards

Reading 2 comment

Mine is more of a comment rather than a question. I never realized how many things could go into the category of information design, its a HUGE list! A lot of the examples that were pictured or mentioned in the reading I hadn't ever even included in the category of graphic design. I feel like it would be hard to design some of the examples because some of them seemed boring to me, but that was necessary to get the message across. I would try to add in other elements that maybe looked pretty, but were not necessary.

GET OUT THE VOTE story updated

Show a 1998 grad on the left hand side and a 2008 grad on the right hand side. Start off with them in grad robes and class of '08/'98 banner behind them. Then display the statistic. Go back to the 2 grads with briefcases and they're being handed a paycheck. Then show 2nd part of statistic. Go back to grads with the '98 grad in front of a nice house and the '08 grad in front of a drabby apartment. The '98 grad will have nice things pop in such as a car, big tv, dog, pool table, nice clothes, etc. The '08 grad will have bills popping in that he will be handing all his money to.

Get the vote out story ideas

statistic: today an average student will graduate with twice as much debt as a student ten years ago; today's average job pays less than it did ten years ago.

story #1: 

Congratulations, you're a recent college graduate, ready to head out into the real world to make your own money. But in the midst of all the celebratory bar hopping did you ever stop and take a second to realize that the past four years have really added up? Today, an average college student will graduate with twice as much debt as a student ten years ago. These days the average debt is $20,000 or more! But that's ok, right? Because you're going to go out and get a real job now. Maybe you didn't realize that the average salary for a new graduate is $30,000, which is less than the average starting salary ten years ago. Kind of a buzz kill, huh. What about the credit card bills you racked up? The average college students credit debt is about $3,200. Make the minimum payments on that and you'll end up paying more than twice the original amount by the time you finally get it paid off, 18 years later. This debt can cause you to get a small mortgage on a home, give you a horrible credit rating, or be the reason you may not be able to save enough for retirement.

(all of this information would just be heard while visuals of a college graduate that is celebrating slowly gets more depressed after every piece of information)

story #2

This idea is a comparison of a 2008 graduate and a 1998 graduate. I would show both of them, one on each side of the screen. The 98 grad would happily be enjoying life with a lot of material things that he could buy because he didn't have much debt to pay off. He doesn't have to worry about money issues much. The 2008 grad will be shown living in a bad apt., working late hours, and he can only afford to buy the necessities after paying bills. I'm not sure about the audio quite yet. I don't know if the same information on the above story should be read as well or not. I am leaning more toward this approach.