Assignment 5 - Infographic

This last assignment consisted of an Infographic production to illustrate an article on fighting climate change. In my Infographic, I showed how the Carbon Sequestration process can reduce the effects of Global Warming.

link to the article : https://inlportal.inl.gov/portal/server.pt?open=514&objID=1269&mode=2&featurestory=DA_526764

Initial Sketches

The sketches on the left hand side, illustrates the Carbon Sequestration process, while the sketches on the other side illustrates how the emission of CO2 causes the global warming of the Earth, and how Carbon Sequestration can reduce the effects of Global Warming.

Infographic prototype

I applied the principle of symmetrical balance to give a more consistent appearance to the Infographic. Both sides have illustrations of the Earth and the Sun, while the middle part has illustrations of the Carbon Sequestration process.

For more simplicity and clarity, I did an outline of the Earth and the Sun instead of fully rendering them. This was done to make them less distracting and to bring the reader’s focus to the middle part of the Infographic (principle of Emphasis by contrast to empahsize on the Carbon Sequestration process). Factories and vehicles were included on the Earth’s surface to demonstrate how CO2 emission causes Global Warming.

I tried to apply the Gestalt principle of reification here, by making the the Earth colour slightly darker than the background colour, and leaving the factories black so that the shape of the Earth could still be perceived.

I tried to give a chronological flow to the Infographic. The left part describes Global Warming as it is now, the middle part illustrates the Carbon Sequestration process and the right part shows what will happen if this process is successful.

I also used a warm colour as background on the left, to emphasize the global warming of the planet. In contrast, I used a cooler blue colour on the opposite side to show that the Earth’s temperature will stabilize and that the effect of global warming will decrease.