Assignment 3_

MUMMY I AM SCARED

Thought process:

• I want to choose an area of interest first, then narrow it down and pick what to present about it.
• I want the topic to be relevant, interesting and timeless. however, can infographics really be timeless?
• Two significant aspects:
  • What to present
    • What is more important? If there are three different ways to present it, and I can only choose one way,
    • Can I imagine myself to be professionally accountable to this infographic? E.g. If I chose to do one on Paris, can I be a tour guide and still proudly present this?
    • Possible ideas: the benefits of ____, different types of ____, how to prevent___, how to begin___
    • I like literature ~~
• How do I present the information?

My take:

• Always interested in Egyptian mummies
• Curious about it
• Wanted to use infographic to intrigue the audience and allow them to understand the culture of mummification as well
• due to the limited space I wanted to provide a summarised version of all the research that I have come across
• originally I wanted this to be a horizontal piece because I thought it would look more versatile but the final result was vertical because I wanted it to look more organised and for the information to be better relayed
• the colours are gold, because i am inspired by the mummy ride in USS
• i was also inspired by the plant VS zombie font, seen in the title
• it was important for this piece to be satisfying to me
• ensured lennings etc. are clear
• readability was important so i aligned it constantly to the left, since an infraphic should be easy to read
• i avoided strong colours like red, unless it is to highlight a point unintrusively
• i skirted around the same quadrant of colour wheel –> warm earthy tones
• i included green, yellow and orange in the center as a way to use colour to my advantage, in terms of conveying the information i was trying to propose
• i wanted the bodies to be parallel almost, so the process from step 1 to 5 looks linear.
• Challenges:
  • to make the mummy look presentable –> not overly creepy
  • to standardise the font size throughout
  • to find the right font for the title
  • to balance information and aesthetics (tho i know in lect, it was emphasised that information was of key/ more important)

• One thing I learned was that layout was very important I have to have a clearly out in order for the audience to follow this sort process that I aimed to present
• another important thing that I learned was the fact that fonts and colours makes a huge difference. For instance are used Sandy already tones because I wanted to emulate the same colours of the desert and that has really helped me convey my point. By simply using the triangle with the colours of a pyramid I managed to make it look like in abstracted version of a pyramid. That is really interesting to me because I manage to see how the concept of symbols and colours that we have learned in lectures come to life

How work has improved since critiuqe

• changed orientation from horiz to vert
• made my words stand out better
• utilised better fonts for the title
• clearly cut the sections of the infographic so information was easy to absorb, instead of being all over the place
• took in the advice of not using stroke lines
• i also reshaped the human body to a more egyptian style, because the original silhouette was too modern looking
• i added more details to the pyramid
• i changed the background base colour to a colour that gives more contrast
• i added details with egyptian patterns to make it more aesthetically pleasing
• i refined details, like the mummy’s drapes in the wrapped linen

• some icons were traced by myself, such as the hand (i took my own picture of my hand and used my imagination/ common sense to draw the wraps)
• i used image trace for more complicated items like the patterns, and used “option + drag” to increase my efficiency
• i found that it was easier to copy and paste an image, and work on it independently (e.g. tracing on it), beyond the A4 limitations and edit it, and began doing that, in contrast to my previous Adobe assignments
• i definitely got better and smoother in Adobe