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A little bit of a throwback, and simplicity in design. Kathryn needed some seating posters for Annual Conference back in June. So I took her sketches and the layout of St. Mark’s sanctuary to create two table charts and a sanctuary seating chart. Simple shapes, layout and design makes them easy to understand quickly without unnecessary clutter/fluff. (I like simple. XD)
Another graphic for the United Methodist office. This one shows the breakdown of their budget. There are five sections of the budget, and some of the sections are further broken down into segments.
I used the colors to correlate with the section tops throughout the rest of the budget brochure.
What do you do when your main story doesn’t have any kind of visual? You get creative! :)
This graphic was for the front page of the summer Nebraska Messenger with a story about voting results of the two Kansas Conferences and the Nebraska Conference. You see, the three conferences are working to merge into one. So they took a vote at their annual conference sessions to judge support for the process. Originally it was just a list in a couple paragraphs in the story. But it was kind of hard to keep all of those numbers straight. So I pulled that section out and turned it into this, including an explanation of the five-finger voting system.
I think I ended up with a nice, clean, concise graphic that not only lends some visual to a visual-less story, but also explains the information in a more understandable way - one of the goals of good journalism, right?
In any case, my boss was very pleased. :)
It has been FAR too long since I updated my stuff. I have been extremely busy with stuff at the Nebraska United Methodist Conference and our Bolivia depth report. I’m going to try to update this a lot in the next couple of weeks to get up to speed. I’ll start with this infographic spread from our Bolivia magazine.
We needed a way to quickly introduce readers of our publication to Bolivia with some quick, interesting facts. To do that, I created a VERY abbreviated timeline which runs on the left and ends with president Evo Morales’ election (a prominent figure throughout our stories). I then cut out the president and built a brief bio box about him.
There is a brief intro paragraph under the headline, followed by a chart of country facts compiled by Eileen and Emma. On the other side, I wanted to show where Bolivia is located within the South American continent. I also needed to show other information with the Bolivian map. In an online graphic, a rollover feature would be nice to show multiple maps. But that’s not an option in print. So I broke out three different maps and put them in a ring around the continent one to unify them. I then found a population density map and recreated it for one map; looked up the topographical information for another map; and used the third map to show many of the cities we reported from and/or discussed in our stories.
I used breakout boxes to explain more about the topography and give some more information about the cities. I finished the layout off with a small web refer box I designed using the camera element Liz Gamez designed for the Native Daughters depth report, which is related to the Bolivia project, subtly tying to two projects together.
Bolivia was a VERY colorful place. Throughout the magazine, I wanted to highlight the colors we were able to capture in the photos of the country. So I kept the designs as black/white/gray as possible, allowing the photo colors to pop. In this case, however, the design needed to pop with color. So I used the same teal-blue and golden-yellow colors that are used in breakout box headings throughout the magazine as the main colors here - tying the spread to the rest of the publication and giving it an exciting pop of color.
