Information Design

I am making progress with my infographic and am really liking the direction. I think I started off really slow in how I wanted to present implication and how I wanted to show that plastic is bad, but I am on the right track now. I’m really happy with the new deadlines that Hannah announced because it gives me more time to fully flesh out the infographic as well as starting a new and exciting fun mini project. Below is my most recent progress on my infographic. I have taken away the full circle of plastic generated and am now just focusing on the scale between the different places plastic is going. My main focus is to show the striking difference between how much plastic is recycled vs. how much ends up in landfills and therefore negatively affects the environment. I am also trying to use text to further explain why the plastic in the oceans and the CO2 emissions is bad, but need to find a better way to do this at first. My most recent meeting with Hannah was extremely helpful. I realiz...

I am really excited for the remainder of this project! Monday and today (Wednesday) have been extremely helpful with guiding me in the right direction. I also think between last week and this Monday I have made a lot of progress in how I want to display my information. I still think it is not fully fleshed out and I want to rethink a bunch of aspects. The screenshot from below shows my current progress. I am choosing to focus on using the circle graph to display information because a lot of the data fits within itself and is very causational (haha is this a word?). For example, out of all the plastic generated I want to show where it all goes within itself- the amount of plastic that exists on the earth will always stay the same because it doesn’t go anywhere (such a small amount is recycled/combusted compared to how much exists in landfills/oceans). Plastic also takes a gazillion years to decompose so I wanted to emphasize how the overall amount doesn’t change- it’s how it's distr...

Blog Post 11/6/20 So this week has been a lot and I honestly haven’t made that much progress from my last post. Though I have solidified a topic so that’s good! I have been jumping around with different topics since this project started trying to find one that I was interested in research and had a good amount of data to work with. I have moved away from specifically focusing on the beauty industry and am now looking at plastic in general. This is a topic that I am interested in through my daily life as I am trying to eliminate single-use plastic as much as possible for about a year now! I wanted to focus within the beauty industry first as I thought it would be a good way to narrow this down and I was interested in the topic because I am an avid consumer of products BUT found out after trying to do a deep dive, that a lot of information around this industry is not public knowledge. Companies don’t release their data and not a lot of research exists around it already- so I became broad...