Katie+Houck+Infographic+Final



For our last week(ish) of school, our final assignment for graphic design has been to create an infographic for a client. My client for this project was Mrs. Budde, who wanted an infographic for forensics. She didn’t want a new logo, we used the official Wisconsin forensics association, and she mostly wanted one that showed the variety of topics someone can join and the benefits of joining the club. For imagery, she didn’t have a color palette she wanted, but since the logo she wanted us to include was black,white and red, I decided to make that the color scheme. She wants to promote the small speaking club to more people, and get a larger amount of students to join. For my design, since she wanted a lot of text, I’ve tried to break up the sections with some additional images displaying the text (mini calendars showing the season length, etc.) Most infographics don’t include a lot of text, but from her description, it seemed she wanted a bit more. I’ve kept the categories with no description in one chunk of text, the benefits as statements with images, and added a brief description of what forensics was for people who didn’t know. Overall, I like my design, and I feel that I’ve met my clients needs. It might not look like most infographics, but her priority was getting information out to the viewer, and I’ve accomplished that. I might want to go back and add a little more color, and rearrange the layout out if I had more time.. Overall, this term I’ve gotten the opportunity to experiment with multiple setups and try some new designs I wouldn’t normally. Of course I’ve always had a lot of color in my projects, but what else is new, it’s who I am. But I’ve learned that you don’t need to over do it, and can keep a color palette to not overwhelm the viewer. So, keeping this in mind, I’ve chosen more colors within the same family, like in the book cover, so the project felt more cohesive. Towards the end, I’ve played more back into a fun, comical style. I didn’t go for precise lines, even textures and complimentary colors or shapes, that’s simply not my style. I tried to experiment with a new clean line style earlier on with the corporate identity, but it wasn’t the style I wanted to produce. In the end, I like that I took a chance trying a new medium of art I won’t have otherwise tried. Digital art and graphic designs are fun to make, but probably won’t be something I do in my freetime or my career.