Liz Meyer & Gavin Potenza

Information Design: Turning Location Based Ideas into Infographics

Nice update! Like the new icon style and new color pallette!

Some things to think about going forward:

- the icons do a good job with communicating where the hurricanes occurred. Now you should think about perhaps how many hurricanes there were per year, or something like that. Right now it looks like there were 5 in 2006 and 4 in 2007, but there must've been more than that. So just figuring out a way to better tell the story would be good for this.

- include a brief introductory paragraph explaining the purpose of the map to help your audience fully understand what they will be learning about.

- consider punching up the volume a bit on the title by using a big bold or some stylized, interesting typeface. I think that'd be a great way to match the style of your map! 

Thank you so much for the feedback! I will continue working on this, it's been fun!

Hi Naho - 

Looks really cool! Thanks for putting up a great sketch!

We like the idea of doing a stylized map, you're one of the only people so far to put a different spin on the traditional state shapes. I'd suggest doing the same to the rest of the map if possible (I know that's a lot of work, but it'll give the whole piece a cohesive feel). 

The icon idea is a nice touch. Something to keep in mind,you want to make sure that you flip the dates so that it reads 2008 ---&gt; (downwards) 2003. It's just a readability issue (the eye skims the page from up, downwards!). 
Also, make sure to keep that title more prominent than the subtitle, it needs to be the first thing people see when they look at your work, so go bold with it!

Looking forward to seeing your next steps :)

Looking good so far! I like the break out in dates!

I'm also having a problem uploading my project...receiving an error message...
For now, here's a link to my project:&nbsp;
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ftsf53qifo6pcsg/infographic_project.jpg
Used data from #1.
Thank you!
As of 6:47pm (1/21/13) , still no luck with uploading of the image. The error message I'm getting is:&nbsp;XHR returned response code 400
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Finally, uploading worked! Here's my sketch. Thanks,
<img class="zoomable rounded-image-wrapper" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/skillshare/uploads/project/0fb8c7488df68eeed78c8306691616d9/13cb6cad" alt="States most frequently hit by hurricanes - image 1 - student project" srcset="http://s3.amazonaws.com/skillshare/uploads/project/0fb8c7488df68eeed78c8306691616d9/13cb6cad 600w, http://s3.amazonaws.com/skillshare/uploads/project/0fb8c7488df68eeed78c8306691616d9/13cb6cad 1000w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 600px, 100vw" loading="lazy">
First draft...well kind of. It needs more work...but edited according to the feedback I received:
<img class="zoomable rounded-image-wrapper" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/skillshare/uploads/project/0fb8c7488df68eeed78c8306691616d9/f634c503" alt="States most frequently hit by hurricanes - image 2 - student project" srcset="http://s3.amazonaws.com/skillshare/uploads/project/0fb8c7488df68eeed78c8306691616d9/f634c503 600w, http://s3.amazonaws.com/skillshare/uploads/project/0fb8c7488df68eeed78c8306691616d9/f634c503 1000w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 600px, 100vw" loading="lazy">
<img src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/skillshare/uploads/project/0fb8c7488df68eeed78c8306691616d9/c4ad7ffe" alt="States most frequently hit by hurricanes - image 3 - student project" class="zoomable rounded-image-wrapper" srcset="http://s3.amazonaws.com/skillshare/uploads/project/0fb8c7488df68eeed78c8306691616d9/c4ad7ffe 600w, http://s3.amazonaws.com/skillshare/uploads/project/0fb8c7488df68eeed78c8306691616d9/c4ad7ffe 1000w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 600px, 100vw" loading="lazy">

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