#infographicposter

Blue whales:

There are fewer than 25,000 blue whales, the largest animals on the planet. Comprising several subspecies, blue whales are found in all of the world’s oceans save the Arctic. The current population is thought to have been reduced by up to 95% by whaling in the 20th century.  

Threats:

Vessel strikes

Fisheries interactions

Habitat degradation

Pollution

Long-term changes in climate

Asian Elephant:

Current population of Asian elephants, which inhabit 13 countries, is around 40,000–50,000. By comparison, African elephants estimated at 600,000.  Over 50% of the population is concentrated in India.  The burgeoning human population there and elsewhere in Asia creates conflicts for space and resources. And while the tusks of Asian elephants are much smaller than those of their African counterparts, the Asian species is still poached for its ivory, meat, and skin. The single most important cause of the decline of the Asian elephant has been the loss of habitat. 

More than 12 000 elephants poached each year

70% elephant habitat destroyed in 1 generation  

Killed for ivory tusks

Gorillas:

All gorillas are endangered. There are probably only around 220,000 left in the wild. Habitat encroachment and poaching for bushmeat, trophies, and magical talismans have led to substantial losses. Because their social structure is so complex and because they reproduce slowly—with females only giving birth once every four years at best—the removal of even a few individuals from a gorilla troop can catastrophically impact its ability to sustain itself. threatened by hunting for bushmeat, habitat loss, wildlife trade, and infectious diseases.  

5% of deaths are by poaching

1 gorilla = 140,000 humans

1/3 die from ebola

Tigers:

Slash-and-burn agriculture, along with logging, and human encroachment, have hugely diminished the habitat available to these felines, which require extensive ranges capable of supporting the large herbivores that constitute the bulk of their diets. Poaching—for trophies and body parts used in Asian “medicine”. Probably fewer than 4,000 are left in the wild.

60% of china's population uses tiger parts for medicine

Lost 93% of their historic range.

In 16 years 923 were killed by poaching

Sea Turtles:

Human activities have tipped the scales against the survival of these ancient mariners. Nearly all species of sea turtle are classified as Endangered. Slaughtered for their eggs, meat, skin and shells, sea turtles suffer from poaching and over-exploitation. They also face habitat destruction and accidental capture in fishing gear. Climate change has an impact on turtle nesting sites.

90% population declined of leatherback over 30 years

4,950 turtles caught as bycatch by Indonesian longline vessels.

Infographic Poster on Endangered Animals:

https://github.com/bigajwiktoria/infographic-poster-final-/blob/master/final.pdf

I have added more work to my Infographic poster on endangered animals and worked more on my data visualisation in the poster as I felt it was lacking on more graphs and charts. I plan to consult thhis design with my peers and tutor to get some opinions on what I can add or change. O feel like after adding the graphs and more information it shows more of my skills and is more informative apart from just illustrative, as befire it was mostly illustration based. It still feels very illustrative but by adding more data visualisation it fits the purpose of our task that we were given more.

Overall I am quite happy with the layout and composition I wanted to keep quite structured devided by lines and colour bars. Making sure that there is enough padding around the information and ilustrations so the poster does not seem messy and busy. I feel like there is enough negative space but not too much to where you don’t see any information. I wanted the poster to be informative but not using only words I did not want too much text, but more a combination of text , charts and iillustrations to inform. I feel like I found a good balance between words and images. I also wanted to keep the colour pallete with limited colours of burned orange, grey and white. I am very happy with that colour pallete. I feel like the orange still shows danger but not as intensively as if I was to use red. I feel like it is visually pleasing to look at, it attracts attention but without overwhelming the viewer.

Overall I am quite happy with how my design worked out. I feel like it is suitable for it’s purpose to show data in a visual and fun way of design.

Starting my  Data Visualisation Poster: 

“Endangered Spiecies Population”

I have started my infograophic poster informing about endangered species population. I picked this topic from the general world population title we were given.  I was very interested in the research, and I felt very connected with the topic myself which made this more enjoyable. Not only I felt like I was learning more about the animal kingdom and what is happening to our beautiful animal and the causes of extiction. 

For this Poster I created my animal illustrations and decided to keep them in the grey shade as I picked orange grey and white for y colour palette. I have been lovin combination of white grey and a pop of one colour in my designs recently and I thought that the burnt orange looked effective and fitted well with the topic of endangered animals. For the ‘danger’ aspect of the design I was not very keen on using the red colour, I didn’t want the red to be too in the face.  The color orange has very high visibility and is often used to gain attention. It still gets the message noticed without the bold, in-your-face presence that the color red has. I am pretty happy with the colour palette it also reminds me of Safari, which connects with wild animals.

For the font in the poster I used Twentieth Century Condensed and Twentieth Century Condensed Bold in variations of sizes for the title, headings and body. I think this font works very well it is simple but quite strong espacielly with the bold effect. I like the look of the condensed font as it looks more modern and fun. I changed the colour of the font depending on the background eg. on the orange backdrop I used white font for the body and grey for the animal headings. For bigger headings on white backdrop I used a combination of grey and orange, using orange to put emphasis on a word or a number. I also varied the size making the numbers bigger and bolder to create bigger impact on the reader so it stands ut more. 

The overall layout and composition I wanted to keep quite structured devided by lines and colour bars. Making sure that there is enough padding around the information and ilustrations so the poster does not seem messy and busy. I feel like there is enough negative space but not too much to where you don’t see any information. I wanted the poster to be informative but not using only words I did not want too much text, but more a combination of text and images to inform. I feel like I found a good balance between words and images. 

Overall I am quite happy with how my design worked out. I feel like it is suitable for it’s purpose to show data in a visual and fun way of design. 

Infographic Posters: