Timeline Process

Initial Ideas

Original radar color scheme

Switched to a different color scheme with a grey background.

Pulled in some icons to give a clearer idea that the timeline is about flight

Used a different background color and started using red. Some color scheme inspiration from the game battleship.

Final :

Went back to a more normal grey but decided to keep some icons red and some blue. Cleaned up the type and now its ready to turn in.

PROJECT BRIEF:

Establishing order: Graphic design often relies on typography to commuicate order, information, and systems. The goal of this project is to make things easy to read, navigate and understand. As you learned in typography one, the foundation for creating an clear informational structure is a a strong typographic hiearchy. Type size, wieght, and color are the the first steps. Graphic elements (lines, arrows, grids) and page structure are often used to aid in establishing a clear hierarchy.

You will need to choose from one of the folllowing timeline choices...

TIMELINE CHOICES:
_ History of the Bathing Suit
_ History of Earthquakes and Volcanic Eruptions
_ History of Photography
_ Prehistoric Timeline
_ 100 years of Flight

CONTENT
_ timeline must have a range of dates
_ intro text
_ each point in time must have a date
_ and each point of time must have at least one sentance
_ images, icons, graphic elements are optional

CHALLENGE
How can you visualize the content? How can the audience get a quick understading about the topic? How are the pulled into the content to find out more?

TECHNICAL RESTRICTIONS
Format: poster or accordian folded book
Size: You determine the final size, poster min. size is 13 x 19 tall or wide
Color: Unlimited color palette
Typography: 2 typefaces, 3 type styles, and no more than 4 sizes of type.
Grid: proportional or ratio modular grid

OVERVIEW: This project was pretty boring but it went well. Once again I learned that if you create a strong concept in the beginning its pretty easy to carry the idea out. I came up with the idea for my project when I did brainstorming with a group of people who were all designing flight timelines. I thought the radar would be an excellent way to show information with both image and text in an organized way. Although timelines can be tedious and boring they are important to provide vast amounts of information to the viewer.