Assignment 5 - How Things Work

The task for this final assignment is to 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. To start off, I decided to brainstorm on the word 'fighting climate change', after that I tried to research on the word. Most of the research result I got back are the different ways to fight climate change. Therefore, I decided to develop my infographic on that topic. While searching for that word, I came across some picture on the sickly earth and I think it would be a good idea to include it into my infographic. Below are my initial sketches, the article of my illustration and my 1st prototype:

For this assignment, we are also required to apply one or more principles of art/design. I think I had used harmonious in shape and size (the smaller circles), emphasis through contrast (the earth is slightly larger than the other circles) and symmetrical balance on the 1st tip (the picture on the adjust your thermostat).

The feedback I got from my classmates is that they find my infographic is a bit too scattered and they can't read it easily because of the green word. Some of them suggest me to draw a house and try to put or link my information to it since most of my information happened in a house.

I listened to their suggestion and came out with a 2nd design. For this design, I did some research on infographic and looked at some examples. After all the research and examples, I came out with the final prototype.

Due to the limitation of the size, I decided to do only six out of the ten tips. The bottom colored circle correspond to the colored circle on top. For example, the red circle at the bottom on the tree means plant a tree shown on the top. The principles of art/design I think I had used are harmonious in color (the color on the bottom match the color on top), emphasis through contrast (the house is square and is larger than the other shapes) and symmetrical balance on the 1st tip (the picture on the adjust your thermostat). Below are the prototype: