Dark and Stormy Night, Homecoming 2016

             For Homecoming we had to create a poster, infographic and tickets that fit the theme of dark and stormy night. We were put into groups of two, one worked on the infographic, and the other the poster and tickets. I did the infographic, however we both started out by sketching 20 poster designs and presented them to each other. After choosing two posters to push on the computer I started to work on layout ideas for the infographic. I researched different designs and layouts to see what worked well, and then sketched out several ideas. After that I pushed my concept on to the computer in Illustrator. Though, after a few critics, our group and another group merged our infographics/posters, creating a more icon focused infographic. Then we both kind of unmerged and made two separate posters. I also did a lot of tweaking to it, adding strokes, and graphs. When we were finally done we sent our posters and tickets off to print. Once they came back we cut them out and mounted them on matte board.

            Along the way I learned a lot about infographics and a bit more about Illustrator. I learned basic layouts of infographics and that they are meant to be icon heavy and can carry more info than given, like survey graphs and strokes. I also learned that Illustrator added two new features, rounded edge marks, and a tool where you can create shapes, like circles, and rectangles, and delete shapes in shapes and I learned how to make a clipping mask, command7, which I used for the gold foil. For what I would do differently I would have started earlier on my infographic and researched a little more. But I do like how our group and another merged at one point, it really helped me get more perspective on the infographic.

            I would take what I’ve learned in Illustrator, tools and short-cuts, as well as infographic layouts and incorporate them into future projects. Overall I enjoyed this project, even though I got kind of done with closer to the end.