Andrew Davies Creative Communication
: Information Graphics
• We have a simple approach to information graphics:
1. Understand the topic thoroughly.
2. Distill essential information.
3. Eliminate superfluous information.
4. Resolve to a simplicity.
5. Make it visually appealing.
• Information Graphics
icon, pictograph, pictogram design
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Famous places - Colosseum, Sahara, Parliament House, Taj Mahal, Uxmal, Statue of Liberty, Kremlin, Alhambra, Mt Fuji, Terracotta warriors, Mt Everest, Khyber Pass
• Climate
• Habitat
• Classification - Trilobites, Cephalopods, Corals, Saurischians, Insects, Cycads, Chelicerates, Sharks and Rays, Archaeocyathids, Angiosperms
• Resources - Gas field, Solar Energy, Hydroelectric Energy, Crustaceans , Biomass, Geothermal Energy, Oil Field, Mining, Flowers, Legumes, Cotton,
• Lease
• Extreme Weather - Firestorms, Hurricanes, Sandstorms, Snow storms
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Information Graphics
: Graphs
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Methane emissions
• Types of Energy Usage
• Troposphere
• City Population
• Biodiversity and Extinction
• Rich and Poor
• World Religions
• Glacier Changes
• Climate Shift
• Tower size comparisons – wind turbines
• Change in Carbonate Ion Saturation
• Hailstones
• Biodiversity and Extinction
• City Population
• Troposphere - altitude, air pressure
• Types of energy use
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Information Graphics
: Maps
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Biogeographic regions
• Resources
• Plate Tectonics
• Ocean Current Circulation
• Salty Seas
• Deforestation
• World population
• Coral
• World exploration
• Oil
• Meteorites
• Stratus Clouds •
Information Graphics
: Diagrams
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Mining exports - Australian Geographic
• Virtual Solar System - Australian Geographic
• The Tree of Life
• Rosetta Stone - Egypt
• How your brain remembers to be afraid - Cosmos Magazine
• The Mineral Wheel
• The Solar System
• Volcano tyoes - Cinder Volcano, Shield Volcano, Composite Volcano, Fissure
• Geological Formations Over Time - Fjords, Gooseneck Canyons, Volcanic Remnants
• The Scale of the Solar System
- Moon, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Kuiper Belt
- Oort Cloud, Eridani, Sirius, Procyon, Centauri, Barnard's Star, Cygni, Sun, Indus
- Milky Way Galaxy, Andromeda Galaxy, WMC, Triangulum, Sextans A, Sextans B, NGC 3109
- Sagitarrius Arm, Orion Arm, Perseus Arm
- Virgo Supercluster