This week, land, air, and water and broke off into our respective groups to focus on displaying the data to the general public. In the land group, we each narrowed down and chose one graph each to display on the infographic. Graphs were chosen according to how general the data was. The purpose was to display standard climate change information on the brochures so that most of the audience can grasp the material as opposed to a topic very niche or specific, which can be hard to understand the significance and context of. Choosing broader graphs also gives the audience a better grasp of the current state of the world and the major issues it is facing. The three graphs we chose to include were synthetic fertilizers, global LPI, and total human-altered land. These graphs showed clear patterns and were thus attention-grabbing, clearly demonstrating upwards trends for the synthetic fertilizer and land-use graphs, and downwards trends for the LPI graph. Each graph was associated with a brief explanation to aid the viewers comprehension. We are currently working on making each group’s brochure uniform in terms of font, colour scheme, graph design, etc. Our group will also be further narrowing the information to two graphs that capture land-based climate change the best and leave the largest impact on the reader.
Because Canva doesn’t allow group dating, we will compile the brochures in this weeks meeting and discuss the details in terms of visual display.
