InfoGraphs

In todays workshop we were looking at infographs and how you simply things down to just symbols to represent something.
To start with we did a timeline of our life including significant points.


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After this we used our researched we had done on our How to question.
First we had to find 20 facts out of all our research:
- Heat and water cause clothes to wrinkle
- Cotton is the worst fabric to crease
- 'Wash & wear' is a finish to stop fabrics creasing
- Ironing services charge between £1-5 per item on average
- Alternate folding when packing clothes is the best way to avoid creasing
- Steaming clothing/ placing in a hot room can remove light creases
- Natural fibre clothing is the worst from creasing
- (out of 19 people) 73.7% dont care if their clothes crease whilst travelling
- 31.6% of these people would re-iron their clothes if they got creased
- 68.4% of people use a holdall when travelling with clothes
-84.2% of these neatly fold there clothes when packing
- Wrinkle free clothing can be bought
- Cotton needs to be ironed at a high temperature to get rid of creases
- packing a light load of clothes will decrease creasing
- wool doesn't wrinkle
- friction within a bag causes clothes to wrinkle
- 68% iron there clothes in the first place
- the annual salary of a dry cleaner & press worker is 19,540
- put heavy objects to the bottom or side of your bag
- creases are formed by bonds in the fabric making new bonds and changing shape
- laundries have a cash flow of around 15,000 - 200,000 a day


From these facts i chose 5 of them to create a infograph:

How to Travel Crease Free - Questionnaire

For my primary research i decided to do a questionnaire as i thought this would be the best way to get information from people. I used surveymonkey.com to create my questionnaire, which is an online based survey which you create the questions and answer for people to fill in. You can then give out the link to the questionnaire and with the results you can create charts etc. I thought this would be a good idea and an easy way to get my questionnaire out to alot of people (facebook).


The questions i asked in my questionnaire were:
1. Do you iron your clothes?
yes
no
2. How do you iron your clothes?
iron manually
iron press
dry cleaning
other
3. what fabric are your clothes made out of?
cotton
linen
wool
nylon
polyester
4.does it bother you if you crease your clothes whilst on your travels?
yes
no
5. do you use any methods to get rid of the creases?
re-iron
steam
trouser press
products to remove creases
other
6. if you were to stay in a hotel would you use the trouser press or iron provided to get rid of the creases?
trouser press
iron
none
7.how often do you travel a week?
everyday
working week (mon-fri)
2-4days
less than 2 days
8. what forms of transport do you travel on?
bus
train
car
other
9. what sort of bag would you use when travelling with clothes?
backpack
suitcase
holdall
canvas bag
hand bag
carrier bag
10. when travelling with a bag how do you pack it?
unorganised
organised into different clothes
neatly folded
other.


The results (19 questionnaires filled in)

Pie Chart results

1. Do you iron your clothes?

2. How do you iron your clothes?

 3. what fabric are your clothes made out of?

4.does it bother you if you crease your clothes whilst on your travels?

5. do you use any methods to get rid of the creases?

6. if you were to stay in a hotel would you use the trouser press or iron provided to get rid of the creases?

7.how often do you travel a week?

8. what forms of transport do you travel on?

9. what sort of bag would you use when travelling with clothes?

10. when travelling with a bag how do you pack it?

Type Hierarchy

In one of our workshops we were looking at type and how it is laid out in different contexts'; magazine, newspaper and poster. We looked at a variety of each to see how this differs and classed each one as bad design, okay design and good design. From the workshop we had to go away and continue the investigation by finding a magazine, newspaper and poster that fit into the three categories, then cut them up and arrange the type in a order of our choice.
I arranged the type on mine by the point size, taking into account if the type was bold or italic too.


Newspapers
Bad design - The Sun

Okay design - Metro

Good Design - The Guardian

Magazine

Bad Design - 

Okay Design - Design weekly

Good Design - Grafik

Poster Design

Bad Design

Okay design

Good design