#digigbda

My infographic is on the evolution of music through technology and genres. I picked the composition of the diagonal but it looks more like the zig-zag composition now since I tried to fit as much information on it as possible. This composition keeps the viewer engaged as well as making the eye bounce, like the beat of the music. My design is a timeline and at the beginning have older text. Also have the colour scheme is black and white. The inventions also have a textured stroke around them to look more like a drawing than a modern vector of an object.  As the viewer continues through the piece the text changes and the colour starts to fade in as they get closer to present time.

           I started my project by researching the evolution of music recording and also genres through the years. I then started to think of the design. I knew wanted a timeline, so I started there and thought of how to represent the timeline. I used music staffs to lead the viewer’s eyes down the timeline. I also used text and colour, to make the viewer tart at the top I put colours in the title. The viewer looks at the title since around the title it is all black and white and then follows the music staves. The text also guided the viewer by changing as the viewer got closer to the present and also the colours faded from black and white to full colour music notes. I soon realized that I was trying to put a lot of information on such a small canvas. When I started I had a lot of clutter and the text was competing with the music notes in the background. I solved the problem in my final design by putting a drop shadow on the text and also changing the opacity of the music notes to make them fade into the background.

           I had a hard time trying to figure out how to represent my research properly. At first I tried to put my genre research into a graph but soon realized that I could not do that since the research I gathered was not quantitative it was qualitative data. To solve this problem I made five different sizes of music notes and the biggest was the most popular genre. My next problem was showing which music note represented each genre. I soon found out that it would be impossible to have the viewer be able to remember which music note was each genre. I than stated each genre and had the corresponding music notes by each word. The music notes helped the flow of the design. For the music recording research I placed it on my timeline and then I placed the genres in.