DP-Experiments

What makes information more logos than pathos?
These experiments evolved from the fact that 16 pounds of grain is need to produce 1 pound of meat. The significance of the fact stems from the unbalanced ratio of what goes into making the meat and what comes out.

I began exploring different perspectives that could be taken with this information to show it in a different way. From a single person to a family of four and what we put into a cow and what we get out of a cow.




An average Americans consumption of meat and the underlying usage of grain and water that are apart of every piece of meat but is not apparent.




A four person family uses more resources than an average person does. This shows the cost to the environment that a four person family produces.




This one shows the large amount of resources that are used to sustain a cow. In contrast to what we as the consumers get from the cow (meat and milk) and then the left over waste that pollutes our environment.





With this infographic I tried to break down the infomation that I was using into sections that together told a story.

DP-Experiment Outline

• How can infographics be used to show how the meat industry effects our health?
• How can infographics be used to show how the meat industry effects our environment?
• How can infographics be used to show how the meat industry effects our animals?
• How can interactivity with infographics engage the viewer through multiple layers of information?
• What makes information more logos than pathos?
• How does the interaction of multiple view points (Health, Environment, Animals) change the message or balance btw logos and pathos?
• How does the rendering of imagery effect the message or balance btw logos and pathos?
  

DP-Graphic Design Goals

I would like to work for a socially conscious design firm that works on campaigns with non-profit organizations to provide the public with needed information. I think I would prefer it to be a small firm with more than just designers working at the office. I don't really have a specific medium or type of work that i'm interested in. I think I'm more concerned with who the work is for. I don't ever want to be in a position that forces me to work for a company that I don't believe in.

I want to live somewhere warm without any of these miserably cold, depressing winters. I want to live close enough to work to ride or walk. I would prefer a bigger city that is near some sort of water that is not a pool.

DP-Question for Degree Project

"How can information architecture help educate interested parties about the truths of the meat industry and the role that it plays within our lives?"
(question by Adam McBride)

How can information architecture be used to educate interested parties about the meat industry's effects on our lives, the environment and animals?

"How can the organization of information and linear narratives help educate interested parties about the meat industry and the role that it plays within our lives, the environment and animals?"