The idea for this project came during the information design workshop when we had to combine different types of information into one graph. Our team came up with a circle representing 360 degrees as an earth where the pie diagram in the middle represented the most spoken languages according to the amount of people speaking them. The left side with the lines showed the biggest cities of the world according to where in the northern or the southern hemisphere they were. The lenght of the lines shows the comparison the city populations and the faint orange line shows the 10 million mark. We also had degrees written to show the idea behind the circle.
I was suggested to use Illustrator to make a nice representation of the graph.
While working on the final piece I decided to change some aspects of it. I made the line for the cities separate from the circle, so that the information does not clash. Deleted the unneccessary lines in the middle of the circle, changed my mind about using the colour gradient to hint the temperature changes in the hemispheres.
The first draft I came up with was in a portrait format.
I showed this to a few people and asked for their opinion. In general, everyone understood what is where and all the symbols, however, my friends said that having degrees instead of north-east-south-west indicators would make more sense, as well as having more design elements in it.
I took their advices into account and revised my final piece by making it into a landscape format as the half-circle city part was destroying the balance of the poster. Re-did the key for the symbols and added some design elements.
In the future I would like to continue with this project making it interactive as I have seen many nice examples of the interactive design pieces during my research. Another idea would be to bring time into consideration as another part of the graph and make it possible for the viewer to see how the biggest cities and the most spoken languages have changed over the years.
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