Created a moodboard on Are.na as a way of generating ideas on how to actually form the ideas rather than just the concept. As this is a book that is still going to be educational but needs to be approached differently to just bodies of text that news articles and websites posts as a way of challenging the rhetoric, I chose to look at ways of visualising data and creating systems.
The data and systems presented however are not going to be strict - it's about the visual impact and the concept of it communicating to the target audience.
- Formatting text: cutting them up, and digitally manipulating them to imitate movement or to migrate across the page.
- Formatting bodies of text: cut outs, atypical alignments, texts that spread across both pages - all represent different forms of migration
- Image manipulation: considering how the colours work within the colour palette and how it affects the feeling being communicated/represented through the image.
- Symbols to represent themes or a key as mentioned in the crit.
Amitai Romm - Systems
The ways in which the lines and arrows work so simplistically but effectively to guide the readers eye around the page. This encouragement of movement could be used to represent the idea of migration as the symbols are placed in different spaces (locations), and the eyes are being guided to each one (migration.)
Perfume Area - Laurel Schwulst
The formation of the final image in steps creates a sense of movement by representing the growth and change of the symbol.
Visual Complexity: Mapping Patterns of Information
Book by Manuel Lima
This image/symbols inspired my direction of focusing on nature within my project as I find that using symbols resembling cells reminds the reader of humanity, and human nature. Developing a key that is approached like this can suggest to the reader the connection between migration/immigration and human nature.
A Book About Some People & Time by Myung Feyen
Instead of lines, using images and the orientation of the text to guide the viewers eyes across the page as with Amitai Romm's systems. The juxtaposition between the bottom red text with the rest of the monochromatic imagery also guides and settles the eye there, suggesting that's the main location. Could suggest that this is the location the information is migrating towards.
Wild Wild Child by Gossamer
The spacing within the body of text to correlate with the image on the other page really inspired my ideas of how to format the body of texts. The number of circular gaps correlate with the amount of red dots, and may not be the exact same shape but follow the same flow. This approach to formatting is so interesting to me as it conveys that the text has moved - migrated - and that it can be moved completely out of the column dependent on how much spacing is used, or it can be cut off.
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