Michael Rice

I’ll start with flat design, as that’s what I really want to incorporate into my infographic. I found a graphic design artists named Adam Rudzki, a Polish designer who’s worked with many different companies, making websites, apps and different interfaces.

http://adamrudzki.com/#

To start with, his entire website is a scrolling, flat designed marvel. It features a range of different pastel colours and icons that just jump out at you. This is exactly what I want with my design.

Next is with a website. The reason why I’ve picked this as a research piece is because I love the colours, they stand out right in front of everything. I found the website on http://www.awwwards.com/websites/flat-design/,  a website that promotes and celebrates good design. With this one it just stood out to me with the contrast between the blocky colours and the blurred images that falls behind. This is something that I want to incorporate into my design, bright colours that catch your attention.

Finally I found a group that design infographics for a living and they are beautiful. http://www.mikewirthart.com/portfoliopage/

There’s no fault with it and, similar to the first one I noted down they have a scrolling website that features beautiful icons and pastel like colours. They use all kinds of shapes and colours as well as different subjects that set them apart from anything else. I like these as an artist because, again like the others, I like the colours and I feel that in an infographic colour is important because that’s what draws the attention to it and I’ve noticed that most infographics all have a specific palette of colours.

So my initial idea was to create an infographic on the concept of Einstein never existing, so, for example I was going to look at whether or not the theory of relativity would be discovered sooner or later and whether or not the atom bomb would have still been created. So long story short I ended up learning about how Hitler would’ve created the atom bomb and become supreme leader of the world. Already it seems too much for a simple infographic. I also found out that Einstein didn’t have any direct involvement with the Manhattan Project/Atom Bomb as he just sent a letter to the U.S. warning them of Hitler’s discovery, so it’s not really much to go on.

I kinda just overcomplicated it for myself and now I’m edging back towards maybe creating a simple, flat designed infographic and the science of the theory of relativity.

My target audience would be people my age, so ages 18 to 22. I like the idea of flat design because you can incorporate simple themes and colours and make it look beautiful while still keeping to a simplistic, minimalistic theme.

So it’s the start of our new brief and it’s pretty exciting… mainly because I get to play around with minimalistic design and bright colours. We’ve got to great an infographic for Einstein’s Theory of Relativity. So I’ve been doing some research and I’ve found some neat examples of infographics.

In a Nutshell – Kurzgesagt (YouTube Channel)

General examples of Infographics.