Personal research, critical reflection and documentation of studio project work:

During week 3 and week 4  I have focused on gathering most of my data for my poster which is on  cancer and the most common ones and the incident reports and Mortality rates along with it. However I wanted to be able to tell a story through my poster so I decided to further research the amount of funding that is created towards cancer research and control.

Some of the data collected

After learning on how to create various types of graphs to display my data my main focus was aimed at trying to choose the create type of way to display the data, this would allow it to become more readable towards the audience allowing for the message to become communicated in an affected way.

Experimenting in illustrator using graph tool:

Throughout this process I was deciding on what way would be the best to display my data so it would be easily readable for the audience.

First data visualisation idea:

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After visually seeing this data in a physical form I realised that circles would not be the best way to display this set of data as it does not accurately highlight the true scale/ capacity, as when the audience goes to view the data they wouldn’t be able to tell much difference between some of the circles even though the numbers were far apart.

Resolution?

After this problem I went back to the drawing board and researched some other ways to display sets of data.

In this case after viewing the ‘data visualisation book’ I find options like a radar chart or a polar chart. Through these graphs I would be able to possibly highlight the relationship between the funding, incidents and mortalities. However after experimenting with the Radar chart tool in illustrator I realised that the funding was in $million’s and the incidents and mortality rates were in the 1000’s, this would make the mortality rate and incidents not appear on the chart as the scale was to large apart, after much research and experimenting I found the only way to display all the data on the chart was to change the data to percentage.

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Data visualisation Inspiration:

After viewing these posters I wanted create more graphs to further develop my story in the poster without filling my poster to much as I wanted to maintain white space throughout.

Colour research:

Pantone:

Pantone colours are particular colours that will accurately reproduce in print. Instead of trying to simulate colours, Pantone colours are pre-mixed published colour formulas with an existing palette of 14 basic colours. There are however, Pantone swatch books that feature an array of colors aside from the 14 basic color palette. This gives your printed piece the cleanest and truest colour result no matter if its for print or screen media.

Learning how to make colour palettes in Adobe illustrator:

I’ve always personally liked limited colours as It allows the poster to speak for itself, but at the same time create contrast within the poster.

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Through the next week, I would like to have almost finished my poster design having various drafts allowing me to gain feedback and deciding which poster is best. it would also allow me time for the printing of the poster incase there are any problems that occur.

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YouTube. (2019). How to Use Adobe Color CC with Adobe Illustrator CC. [online] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AhM2EIW1vQ [Accessed 30 Oct. 2019].