The end!

So that is my blog for Information Design, for the development of my ideas see my sketchbook, as this is mainly a research tool :)

If I come across any more  interesting inforgraphics or diagrams I will still post them here!

My images of each category

Made up of the map outlines of each country and layered in the order they were placed in that category.

Some screen shots of development

Some different options I came up with before the final layout. Which also involved a very similar layout to the final one, but Flash crashed and I lost it all! This however ended up a happy mistake as it helped me create a better final version when I re-did it all! The final layout draws on all of the different paths I explored.
It is an artistic piece, the central, animated piece I would imagine would be projected outwards using lights.
It is built up from different images created by layering outlines of maps from each category of statistics (e.g best price competitiveness) on top of each other in various colours. (shown below) Underneath that is a screen shot of my final outcome, but as I sais before I cannot uplaod the final one here!

My diagram in use!

They're pretty rough, but just a quick thing to show how I'd imagine it :)

Caught up! On to the new..

Okay so that's me caught up with the back log! Now, Over the past few days, after a lot of research I have made my own design solution for those very boring statistics.
I have made my main theme 'playful statistics'. Basically the concept behind my piece is to make statistics into a bright, colourful and visually appealing piece of work. The development of this can be seen in my sketchbook but I will post a few screenshots here as well.
Unfortunately I can't post my design solution here as it is a swf. file :( I will keep working on this!
The final thing I will use this blog space for is to show how I imagine my design solution being used in a real-life context.
I see it being a near-future thing that we'll all be using touch screens all the time, made of glass ands such, so I imagine my diagram being used in travel information, or even world information centres that have some kind of innovative touch screen/glass/3Dprojection technology. (this is mainly due to the 3D swirling diagram of maps featured in my diagram that takes it further into the visually intiguing side of things than just informative).
I hope to make some rough mock up type images of what this might look like (basically photoshopping my diagram into other images!)

I take great inspiration of this touch screen world from this video:

Colour schemes, effective structures etc...

In the final stages before making my own design solution I'm looking at some effective design uses:

Mapwork

So, since I plan to use maps a lot in my own work.. I better get researching them!

Map of racial change.

Economic and social indicators over time.

Gentrification of DC

A bit of a feel good factor?

Typographic Maps!

I came across the website (http://store.axismaps.com/products) that make and sell Typographic Maps, I love this idea, they look really interesting and add an artistic style to the classic information design aspect of maps.

Ugly infographics

There are so many of these right now! Especially Royal Wedding themed ones.

I suppose it's not THAT bad, it's just following a theme but I really don't like it in comparison to the simplitic, classy looking infographics.

Still forgetting to actually post my entries!

Once again I have a backlog, here goes the upload of them all!