calderon-infographic

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Sarah Calderon Ms. Bjork Graphic Design B3 17 January, 2017 Infographic Artist Statement When given a lot of information, it's hard to remember or even process what's being said. For most people, having something broken down into visuals or graphics helps make the information easier to understand. As a graphic designer, you would have to figure out how to simplify information in a way that is clear and concise. For this project in Graphic Design, we created infographics for the various grading systems and programs as a way to present them to students and staff. For my infographic, I chose the subject of Success Skills. As a freshman, I found the success skill policies confusing and wordy, so I wanted to create a more visual interpretation for what success skills mean. I felt the best way to do this way through a cartoon; although this was more of a poster, I feel that it still counts as an infographic. The concept of my cartoon was really just a doodle, however I now realize that it looks similar to baymax. Regardless, this idea for the face and eyes were my original idea. Overall, I think I did a good job of creating a way to clearly show what success skills are. Although there's not a lot of words, I believe the message is clear: be a good and responsible student and you will get good grades on your success skills. Although some of the shapes aren’t as neat as they could, I was still proud of the way this turned out. The pen tool in illustrator has become my best friend. Starting with my Corporate Identity project, I had a lot of time to get used to the pen tool, and although it took forever to create the shapes in my logo, I was happy with the result. For this last project, I really wanted to try using illustrator again and I was surprised to see that I was much more familiar with the tools than I had thought. Throughout the semester, I think I’ve grown tremendously as a digital artist. At the beginning of the year, I had never worked with photoshop, illustrator, or even on a mac. I have become more confident with using technology in my art and hope to take the skills I’ve learned into my collage classes (UW-Eau Claire has very similar mac labs). Overall, I really enjoyed this class.