While taking Information Design, the students were given a task to design data revolving around a social issue of our choosing. As I continue to look for ways to spread the saddening truth of climate change and global warming, this assignment gave me the perfect outlet to incorporate compelling statistics. However, as I began to plan out the design of this assignment, the process became time-consuming yet intriguing. Many citizens in society do not take the time to research and understand the data they are observing because it may be “too time-consuming” or “too confusing”. The task of designing data-based information allows designers to convey a message in a way that draws the audience’s attention.
I decided to focus on human-caused climate change, specifically land-ocean temperature rise and antarctica vs greenland ice sheet mass decrease as they coincide with each other. I collected data through NASA’s Global Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet and I gathered the climate change laws through Climate Change LSE: Climate Change Laws of the World. I decided to incorporate the increase in greenhouse gasses, as well as information pertaining the causes behind these gasses, to teach viewers where they come from and a main component that is causing the damage. Though understanding the information for the ice sheet mass, as well as finding the right information to support my thesis statement, was a little challenging, I enjoyed doing the research and designing the poster in a way that grabs the viewers attention while incorporating graphs and dense information.
I want to create a series centered around the consequences of human-caused climate change and the devastation currently happening as a result of society's choices. This series would support a larger project with the appropriate data to show the need to take action. I would like to create a line of stickers, clothing, and pins with illustrations of elements in nature (animals, landscapes, short quotes) with a QR code. The QR code would link to a website featuring the data-filled poster designs, illustrations, and links to multiple non-profit organizations and charities working towards healing our planet or slowing down the rate of change. One page could feature products with companies that are environmentally friendly and working towards making a change, such as Ecosia (a downloadable web browser that proposed to plant a tree every time a user searches a topic using their browser). This website helps clarify the amount of information surrounding the environmental issue and allows citizens to find multiple ways to help by placing them all in one area.
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