so as i’ve previously posted…i want get more into visualizations. i am completely new at it. so i thought throwing together an infographic would be a good start. i recently came back from an india trip where i collected a bunch of “info”. i decided to give a stab at creating one:
i’m not too impressed with it, but i sure learned a lot already.
this was the first time i used illustrator. wow what an awesome program. i’m surprised i’ve never used it before. i wish i had. vector art is so powerful. it makes so many things ive tried in photoshop so much easier. the workflow is a bit different, but i’m getting a hang of it. there’s so much more i need to learn from it. so yea, i hope to do some really cool things with it. you can definitely be much more creative, hence it is a drawing tool.
anyways, about the actual infographic. i feel designwise it is pretty poor. it’s not laid out very well. not organized at all. doesn’t have a flow. it’s basically just a bunch of random stuff thrown together. the spacing isn’t evenly distributed. it’s all cluttered down at the bottom. i didn’t know how to manage it without completely redoing it all. so yea. pretty painful to the eyes. as a graphic that’s supposed to make data easier to read, i think i’ve definitely failed. heck, even the data is pretty random and unrelated to each other.
but i’m still happy with it in terms of learning. i think it’s a good start and it’s encouraging me to do more. so who knows what’s next!
i had fun looking at it.