Thursday, 19 April 2012

CASE STUDY 12- Wikipedia's Blackout





Wikipdeia blocked out its English language encyclopedia for 24 hours in protest to SOPA and this infographic illustrates the impact of 'A world without wikipedia'. Overall this infographic doesn't appeal to me much as it has far too much writing and information for my liking, but i suppose due to the nature of the subject a great deal of text is needed to fully explain its facts and figures so that the reader/viewer is able to understand properly.

The aspects i do like from this infographic is the combination between colour scheme and the illustrations. First of all the illustrations/symbols are very simple but have bold line which doesn't over complicate things, this allows them to fully illustrate the subject matter. Accompanied with the teal colouring creating a killer contrasting combination on the light grey background. If there is one fault with the colour scheme it would be the difficulty i had reading the samll dark grey font and the grey background.

The infographic above combined with the previous 2 have inspired me to experiment and sample with symbols and illustrations to represent different subjects/sections for ones final infographic.