Tuesday, 29 November 2011




For this project I picked the band ‘Admiral Fallow’, the reason at first was because I enjoyed the sound of their music but after studying them I realised;  I also liked their style they have for their album cover which is; simple, clean and neutral colours are used and also the venues which they have played at e.g T in The Park. One of the main things I noticed was the amount of times the band dressed appropriately for Glasgow weather, e.g in winter clothing, and this is what I decided to use as my data. I analysed twenty photographs of the band, these ranged from promotional to live shots, and at first I mainly focused on pieces of clothing which are worn during the winter to emphasise the kinda of weather Glasgow has. I then decided to add T-shirts to the data, again to highlight the weather conditions of Glasgow, this was mainly found in shots of the band when they were performing live. 
I used images of clothing to portray the amount of times that the band wore that particular item and the illustrated outline used to highlight the times when they did not. I thought this would be an interesting way to show the information that was collected and it also clearly highlights the difference between the amount of times the different items were worn. I used images were the clothing had a material which was a neutral colour, this was to highlight the band’s style for their promotional merchandise, e.g posters, and also for their own choice of clothing in the photographs, e.g the green hat is the lead singer/ songwriter Louis Abbott as he wears a green knitted hat, and the female singer wears patterned scarfs. I arranged the images in the order that the band stand in whilst on stage; the T-shirt is the cello player, the winter coat is the drummer, the hat is the lead singer, the scarf is the female singer and the rain coat is the bandmate who plays the clarinet. This is also why have I drawn a platform to portray a stage. I kept the background white, so the illustrations could be seen clearly and to go with the neutral style that I am trying to portray in the design. The font is I used was Baskerville the reason for this was because the band name is typed using a serif font, so I picked one that I felt best portrayed band’s style. By studying their posters and their album cover I could see that the kerning of the type is tight and the tracking is negative so I interpreted this into my design. I made certain words in my explanation bold to highlight key points in my information. 

5 comments:

  1. I really like the visuals you have used in this infographic. I like how they are simple outlines of the clothes and then the percentages make up the material - this is really clear and effective. There is a lot of white space but I like that you have chose to do this because it does look simple and neat. I'm not sure about the hat in the middle as I think the other clothes look like they are on a window display and I think the scale of the hat takes away from this look.

    I can't really read the type in the small paragraph but taking from the band name on your infographic it looks suitable to the bands style and I like that there is no stroke on the A's, makes it look quite funky!

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  2. I really like the way you chose to display your data. I found it very interesting to look at and clear to understand.
    I like how you used both image and illustration. (:

    I'm not sure that the text at the top left is necessary as your content is shown clearly just through your use of imagery. Perhaps you could just include more relevant information such as the amount of people you researched.

    The simplicity of your info-graphic works well as it appears really neat while keeping with your chosen bands style.

    Your font choice is justified well in your rationale and works successfully in your info-graphic as it displays your information clearly to the the viewer. (:

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  3. I really like this. The information is very clear and easy to focus on because of the plain background. It is easy to understand what you were trying to show by keeping a simple design and not over-complicating it. I think the font choice suits and the overall design is well done.

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  4. I love your visuals for this. The way you've shown the data through the clothing works really well. I love how you used photos (I assume they're photos?) to represent the amount of times that member of the band wore it. The illustrations are lovely, the tracing is really good and match in well with the photos. It communicates well and the consideration of what order they stand in is really well thought of. It makes the design more meaningful than if you'd randomly arranged them.
    I think you could maybe make more of the box/stage type shape they sit on, if you wanting them to be on a stage? maybe add a few stage type elements like lights or something? It looks good though regardless. Well done!

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  5. I really like the design of this info-graphic. Its very simple, and the mono-tone of the black text and white background and the line drawing style illustartions makes it really stand out.
    I think it's a really unique thing to have analysed about the band and clearly links the band to their heritage in Glasgow.
    The choice of font is appropriate because it is similar to the style of font used on their album artwork.
    The hierarchy of the design is easily readable, however I would suggest maybe not including the scale explaination in the paragraph and maybe having this separately so it was clearer.
    Overall though I really like the simple style of this design and its interesting to look at because of the type of information displayed.
    nice one :)

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