SOOOOOO we have our first draft of our EMS infographic! (I'm posting this a little late because I decided combine two posts into this one.)
My group partners and I worked really well together in collaborating ideas and designs to create our infographic. Katie was a wizard using Piktochart, Natasha created the road on illustrator, and I wrestled with photoshop to help remove the white background of the ambulance.
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| Our #lit first draft |
In class on Monday, all of the groups brought in their drafts and we discussed each of our drafts which was SUPER friggen helpful. The class really liked the idea of the road with the signs, but thought that the font was much too small and there was too much information for such small signs. The class also really liked the big icons on the bottom, and suggested maybe we should add more information there. Professor deWinter also said that our header looked a bit like an FDA warning and that we should focus on simplicity up top and add more detail towards the bottom of the infographic.
My group and I took copious notes throughout our critique and sketched out our approximate revisions so we could hit the ground running when we meet on Sunday.
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| Please excuse my artistic skills |
Your planned set of revisions seem like they will be able to address all the main issues the draft presented to the class had.
ReplyDeleteI completely agree with the decision to move the club information to the bottom portion of the infographic. Being presented with an important block of text immediately while you can see a big, appealing graphic to look at below is almost frustrating, as the viewer feels like they have to get through all of the text before they can explore the graphic.
My one further suggestion is, rather than changing the first sign entirely, to start the road with an arrow with text saying something like "So you want to be an EMT?", and then have the stop sign be the first sign encountered after that. I feel like that would let you keep the meaning of the stop sign (which does work well in context) without it being as immediately discouraging to the viewer as starting directly on the stop sign would be.
Personally I like the flow of having the text on the signs because it immerses the reader in the graphic. I do think that the text was difficult to read on the signs due to its size, but that seems like a fairly easy fix with some manipulation of the signs and the font.
ReplyDeleteIn your revision, there is definitely a large improvement with switching up the header with something a bit more simplistic. Other than that I thought your first draft was very well designed and is something I could really see being used by the EMS club as a tool for promoting their organization.