Do you eat breakfast?

T H E S K I N N Y / / Collect data and information on a chosen subject. You will use your classmates/peers to collect the variables of a specified subject. The subect can be anything that can be measured statistically. You will then visu-ally represent your research into three visual solutions. The first solution will be entirely typographic, the second image based, the third where you do not use the computer in any shape or form (kind of but not really). The subject I chose to explore was originally coffee, but then I found that breakfast was a better route for me to go.

P R O J E C T B R I E F / / Right off that bat I knew that in order to have inter-esting statistics I needed to get my surveys to as many people that would take them. I worked really hard to collect as much information on breakfast that I could, through word lists, random questions and researching on the internet. My first survey I handed out to my classmates consisted on only two solid questions, do you eat breakfast and if so what do you eat. After getting the results of that I knew I needed to add more complicated questions. I also wanted to find a way to include those of us that did not eat breakfast, rather than just having them answer no and walk away. So, on the second round of victims I had them tell me where they got their breakfast home, whether home, school or a fast food restau-rant. For those that did not eat breakfast, I had them tell me why. I also asked my peers outside of Viscom class, my parents, and even a few random people. After that I worked on a wordlist of anything and everything having to do with break-fast. From there, I explored different ways of representing my information through rough sketches of any idea that came to mind for each of the three different posters. I wanted to get to work on the computer as quickly as possible because the more time I have to revise, the better. In the end I feel like I have three very strong posters that clearly represent my subject and collected information.

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Find a more interesting way to show the numbers.

Texture is good. Show information in another way.

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C R I T I CUse images to show statistics.

C R I T I CMore exploration.Opacity isn’t work-too confusing.

C R I T I CNice idea, too messy and jumbled.

C R I T I CHard to read. Other ideas are more successful.

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Way too much going on. Incorporate more nuetrals.

C R I T I CMore use of actual food.

C R I T I C66% hard to read, play with scale and positioning to make it more legible.

TURNED NONTRADITIONAL

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say they typically eat whatever they can find that’s fast and easy.

45%

Very close to being finished. Tweak 66 still.

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25% eat cereal

8%eat waffles

12%eat fruit

4%eat eggs

4%eat toast

say they typically eat whatever they can find that’s fast and easy.

45%

C R I T I CText gets lost.

Combine fun and playful with actual images of the food. Turn image based?

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TEXT TURNED

Show more. Add more texture. Work on hierarchy and ayout.

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C R I T I CChange how I word things. Continue to work on hierarchy.

OF US EAT BREAKFAST

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Eggs Toast Fruit Cereal Waffles Something fast

# OF PEOPLE

FOODCHOICE

WHEREDO YOU GET YOURSFROM?

FROM HOME

12%

WHYNOT?

NOT HUNGRY

NO TIME

66%

FROM SCHOOL

66%

STUDENTS WERE ASKED IF THEY ATE BREAKFAST

24 IF YES, WHAT DID THEY EAT AND WHERE WAS IT FROM? IF NO, WHY NOT? HERE ARE THE RESULTS.

of you eat whatever you can get your hands on for breakfast.

37

Choose cereal.

WHAT’S ON YOUR PLATE?

EAT BREAKFAST

DO NOT

Ditch woman at the bottom. Use more cohesive images. Change font. Nice layout.

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T y p e b a s e d .

N o n t r a d i t i o n a l .

I m a g e b a s e d .