InfoGraphics
Delivering complex sets of information to people can be quite a challenge. A Graphic Designer can use visual impact to help get more information across more clearly than just handing someone a page with a chart. Additionally, the way a page of information is presented can affect the mood of the viewer quite directly: it can help someone receive difficult news with a sense of gravity or a sense of levity; it can make the delivery of information into an entertaining game; it can even help someone feel like they are smart enough to handle what they are seeing, when a less-nuanced approach might actually make them feel stupid or ill-equipped. Go Graphic Design!
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This piece and several others, comissioned by the Norwich Historical Soc, to create a few poster-sized displays to present at the Vermont State House to help the assembly understand where the state's History Teachers required assistance.
This client was giving a series of presentations to help deck creators learn about the practical realities on how to use crowd funding to help them self-publish their projects.
A small, professional chorus was taking steps towards tightening its books & understanding its budget. These two pie charts were created to help its members and funders understand the constellations of incoming funds versus expenses.
I created these to show viewers at a glance the actual impact of the Bernie Sanders campaign. While I was not hired by the campaign as a client, they were appreciative to receive these pieces and did post them to their various social media accounts.
The client for this piece needed to contain a fair amount of complex information about the relationships of the different facets of her work as a mediator. We created several pieces that helped her students dig into these ideas more deeply.
The Waldorf School hired a systems analyst to do a detailed report about how the school runs. They asked lots of questions. The resulting map was too complex. My redeisgn made it more approachable. The analyst's since hired me to help.
This is a merry approach to help a group understand a complex survey's findings. Warm colors make clear the strong consensus amongst them. The cartoony approach was intended to elicit laughter and reduce intimidated by seeing so many numbers all at once.
A detailed map of the Waldorf School's campus. It shows the outdoor teaching areas during COVID: colored rectangles indicate the locations of each grade's space. It was adapted to show traffic patterns; faculty locations; emergency routes, etc. It's found further use over the years to so all kinds of things.