Week 4

> Assignment

This week's assignment was create 3 variations of an information graphic pertaining to some specific detail about Abraham Lincoln's life.

> Craft

Adobe Illustrator

Composition

I used Adobe Illustrator for the penny loafer illustration and stock photography where applicable. I had two major ideas, and worked on two variations of each. The first idea dealt with a penny loafer type of image and I modeled the time line along the contours of the shoe. The second idea was to point out different pennies in a coin jar and contour the information along the image. The challenge was to keep the readability, simplicity yet attention grabbing aspect to the design so the information wouldn't get cluttered.

> Concept

My idea was to create an information graphic about the history of the penny. It turns out there was more information about the penny than I ever knew existed, and it was a bit of a challenge distilling all the information down into a coherent document.









The penny jar layout with the jar to the side was the one picked to flesh out into a more complete concept for Week 5. At the end of class on Week 4, this is the layout I had come up with so far, incorporating subheads into the text bullets and using the cents sign as a type of arrowhead to link text and image.