Boring stuff

In this page I've posted some of the information graphics I've made in the "Graphic Design" class at Abat Oliba University. I call it "boring stuff" because none of these information graphic use humor to explain their message (like the ones I analyze and post on the main page).

Plane crashes

This graphic shows some facts about plane crashes - and the three worst in history. I don't think it works that well because the lack of a grid. And in my opinion it has too many words - instead of showing the three worst crashes, it just explains it with text.

Another thing that's a bit odd about this graphic is the fact that it's quite boring and purely functional except from the drawing of the plane. It is as if the plane and the rest of the graphic doesn't match. 

The way of showing the statistics is also very familiar - and could have been done in a more creative way. But I do like the different informations presented - it's interesting to combine the number of crashes each year and the number of fatalities.

My CV

My idea with this way of showing my skills was to make it look like an old school paper - with childish colors and a yellow note - to make it different. 

I like the three parts that shows my skills instead of just explaining it with words. They show my language skills, that I've lived in different countries - and that I already have a lot of job experience. I also like the yellow note because it draws attention and adds some of my other skills. But despite these four elements, the graphic has too many words. That's the problem when you need to show your experience in just one page.

The graphic looks quite familiar all together, but it has original parts - for example the use of a picture of a piece of paper as the background. 

The Boston Robbery

This graphic is divided in two parts; One specifically about the robbery in Boston, and another on the top 5 art robberies in history. I like how they are displayed together without having much to do with one another.

I've used only few - and very calm colors - in order to keep it as simple as possible. That makes it more light than it would otherwise have been. 

The idea was to show the events kind of like in a cartoon - which is a very familiar way of showing a sequence of events. But by adding the frames I've made it a bit more original. 

I've created some kind of hierarchy by using arrows to guide the viewers eyes - without them it would have been too messy.

Unemployment in the EU

What I tried to do with this information graphic was to use the map of Europe to show that neighboring countries tend to be in the same range of unemployment. I used six different colors to show the level of unemployment to make it more detailed (in stead of only using 3 or 4 different colors). 

The color range goes from deep red over orange and yellow to a bright green. These colors are very common to show where the situation is worst and where it's all right. The use of these common colors along with the map makes the graphic extremely familiar, and very, very little original. 

I have drawn my own map of Europe using straight lines in order to make it more simple (without over simplifying it). It serves the purpose of making the graphic more light and easy to understand in few seconds.

It is a bit redundant because the same information is showed twice - both in the map and in to the right. But the oversight on the right side gives more details about each Member State and add the exact percentage for each state. Putting these informations inside the map would have made it confusing and chaotic. It also provide a list from the country with the highest percentage of unemployment and down to the worst.

I could have made it multidimensional by adding other informations about the unemployment rate in EU - for example the numbers for youth unemployment or the differences between men and women. But I wanted to keep it very simple and to focus on the divided Europe (from a green North to a red South).