Thursday, April 8, 2010
Assignment 5: Fighting Climate Change!
Our task:
Create ONE Infographic to illustrate an article on the topic of fighting climate change. The theme 'Fighting Climate' could refer to causes and consequences of global warming, deforestation etc.I chose to do my infographic on this interesting, informative, and striking article I found online. The article talks about how humans have been abusing our planet in so many ways, that climate change and global warming have been accelerated tremendously in recent years.
The article talks about how the Earth will soon launch a whole host of backlashes in order to "rebalance" the global ecosystem. Quoting the writer of the article: "And how do you rebalance the global ecosystem? The most direct way, from nature's point of view, is to get rid of the cancer that's destroying the planet. That cancer, of course, is
us. Humans are, by far, the most destructive force on the planet and the greatest threat to life and biodiversity on planet Earth."
These backlashes will come mainly in the following forms:
-Disruption of food production
-Droughts
-Floods
-Famines
-Infectious Diseases
-Breeding of antibiotic-resistant superdiseases
Here's the link to the article for a more comprehensive read:
My Chosen Article!I decided to focus my infographic on the consequences of global warming and climate change mentioned in this article. Namely, droughts, floods, famines, infectious diseases, and the breeding of antibiotic-resistant superdiseases.
Here're my developmental sketches:
I had the idea of merging the toxic fumes with the canopy of the trees and have the boxes of information spiralling out from there like bits of toxic fumes and waste gases.
This was a sketch of trying to shape the clouds of toxic fumes properly for the right effect.
I decided to draw out all the little doodles I wanted in the inforgraphic and scanned them in. I made some of my doodles, like the skulls into brushes, such I could use them in the patterns of the infographic. You can find all of these on my final infographic copy.
Compiling and drafting background designs.
After scanning and editing everything in (which was really REALLY time-consuming), I decided to play with the backgrounds, because I wasn't happy with this plain pale yellow one:
Here're the other tricks I tried out.
And here's the final one:
I liked how the gradient of the background matched the gradient in the boxes, giving a rather pleasant look on the whole. The pale yellow background fading to white also helps the greenish brown boxes (the main focus of the infogram) stand out.
♥ head in clouds.
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