Marcelo Urieta Bravo

Graphic Design Minor – St. Edward's University

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Graphic Design I – Mapping Project (Information Map)

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This Mapping Project (Information Map) is one of my favorite assignments because we were able to do research and also use our creative minds to make the information collected appealing. For this assignment, we were asked to create an infographic using bar graphs, line graphs, and pie charts in order to showcase the data collected through our research. The project allowed us to be creative since it didn’t have many requirements and guidelines.

I created my infographic about Austin, Texas because the city has shown rapid growth within the years and I wanted to know more information about the population. This included pie graphs about demographic profiles and population by gender. It also included a bar graph with the most up to date information about the age structure in the city. Lastly, I also showed the population growth using a line graph.

For me personally, incorporating graphs and text into a design was challenging. I had to make sure that the text was placed effectively and that the graphs worked well with the text. I focused on the aspect about this being a professional and informative infographic and that helped me determined the colors that I used as well as the typefaces.

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15

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Graphic Design I – Mapping Project (Artifact Map)

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For the Mapping Project (Artifact Map), we were asked to create a map. We were given ideas such as a map from school to work, home to school, and work to school. In class we went over the assignment and talked about the different maps that we could use as well as identifying the specific uses for other maps. This project has to be constructed using AdobeIllustrator.

I focused on a directional map because I wanted to share with other students some of my recommendations around St. Edward’s. I basically picked my favorite places around campus that were fairly close on a walking distance. I am aware that the majority of the students living on campus don’t own a car, so I wanted to help them out by providing easy to follow directions.

To make it easier for the students, I included the walking time using a radius method so they can know how long would it take them to get to a place. I felt like by doing so, I was able to take a lot of unnecessary information, such as individual time per location, which ultimately help make this map legible. If I could add something, I would definitely add any of the pedestrian lights for safety reasons.

 

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