Brandl-Infographic

Final Exam: Infographic

Jenna Brandl Final Exam: Infographic Mrs. Bjork January 18th, 2017

In our world today when we look around either around stores or just searching things online we see millions of pictures and tons of information at the tips of our fingers. Some information can come through images, these pictures are called infographics. Infographics are what people make that consist of different images to tell you information about that topic the person is trying to explain. In our Graphic Design class we had to pick one out of the four Pewaukee School’s learning and/ or grading system. The four topics consisted of CCR Program where they help with the Career Planning Program, there also is the Standards Based Grading, Success Skills, and the Literacy Center. For my topic I chose Success Skills, I chose this topic because I thought I could create a concept that shows the Pewaukee colors through the infographic. When I first started out making my infographic I thought it was hard to come up with an idea for it but as I started messing around with the colors and design it started coming together. I thought the overall composition of my piece turned out fine but I really wish I would have been able to do something better since I found this topic a little hard to design for. Though I still think that the design and patterns that are within my piece really stood out and brought in our school colors. For some of the media I decided to introduce into my project I wanted it to show something from each standard that comes to my mind when I think about it; such as Polite and Positive I thought of a smiley face and for Digital Citizenship I thought of computers and phones. For this project like I said before I didn’t really have an idea while designing but I thought in the end the colors played well together along with the patterns since the edges are smudged around the sides of the circles and in the background between the black and red. I thought the smudged and use of different pictures of media were my high points in this project but I do need a lot of improvements. Overall I think most improvements would be to make some new ideas for this topic which I had done but didn’t get the chance to make it and also just fix it up a lot to make it look more like an infographic than some information on a colorful background. Over this class this semester I have learned a lot about using the computer to create cool projects that you could find in the real world. I thought I improved greatly over the year overall even though my last project wasn’t my greatest I have done. From the beginning where we took one shape and made it digital to the point where we can now create our own book cover from scratch, I feel that this class has improved my tech skills for design for sure and I am hoping to use it in the future. While looking back at my all of my work over this year I have felt very proud of myself for what i have put forward in this class. In the beginning we started with the shape project which I felt in the end it turned out really well and looked like a picture you could find on the internet. We then moved onto our college unit which I felt pretty proud of all my collages in the end as well even though it was a little harder to try Illustrator instead of Photoshop. In the next unit we had to take a company of our choice and make letterheads, envelopes, business cards and a product for this company. The company I chose was Coca Cola, I don’t really know why I chose this company but I thought it would be a cool way to redesign this logo since it is such a popular company. In the end of that project I felt the most success with being able to put forth my digital designs as well as the 3D projects which even with the difficulties on the shirts I was still very proud of the work I put forth into that project. For the book cover I also felt that I did pretty well with how I managed to put together information about the book and pictures of my own to make a realistic book cover that can look like it could be found on an actual published book. Then I have finished my semester with this infographic that I feel okay with, since I feel I could have done better overall on it. Though overall I feel that even though as some of the work got harder over the semester most of the projects were fun to do and was glad to have fun designing my pieces.

