September 2024

Always good as an intro into visualizing data.

Pick a ‘journey’ you make frequently/repeatedly. Document as much data and observations as possible during the period of time your own personal journey takes, recording both quantitative and qualitative observations. These can be the obvious ones such as the number of cars passing you on your journey, to harder to quantify observations such as the different choices of music you select on your journey. It is a personal journey that may include non-tangible narrative information (what were you thinking at certain points of the trip, moods, sounds etc?) alongside more obvious, measurable data points, such as time, distance etc. Consider temperature variations, periods of time, speed, pace, direction etc.

From your research and body of data – create a wallchart (22″ x 18″ plus an additional 1/2″ white border all around. Portrait or Landscape). Make it a compositional piece, include additional data sets, a logo-title (not simply in Helvetica – ‘design’ the title), and a small introductory block of body text. This should be a coherent piece that clearly, and accurately, visually communicates a large amount of qualitative and quantitative information and data about your personal journey. It should have some elements of your ‘personality’ in it, after all – it is all about you.

A nice introduction to Editorial Design. This was to create a direct mail piece to the general public or a more specific age range that would educate, inform, and entertain the recipient sufficiently for them to want to know more about the metric system by going to the QR code (which would take them to the USMA website.)

Side note: Countries that do not use the metric system:

It is often stated that only three countries in the world—the United States, Liberia, and Myanmar—do not use the metric system. However, this belief is incorrect. In truth, every country in the world uses the metric system to some extent. However, a few countries, including not only the United States, Liberia, and Myanmar, but also Canada, and the United Kingdom, have not yet converted 100% to metric. These countries instead use mixed systems in which metric units are either used alongside or replaced by another measurement system (typically the British Imperial system).