At the start of the project when I heard what we would have to do I spent some time looking up infographics on the internet. I got some great ideas on how I wanted to layout and design the poster for Tommy. I then sketched out a few ideas. I got some ideas so when I found out my partner and his project, at once I thought of a cool way to use a theme. Then once I got this theme, I did 2 more sketches with a road for a border (both of which are on the left). I thought it would be an interesting way to include the bike theme into what is normally a plan poster and I think it turned out well. Below you will see two examples of my brainstorming ideas on the computer (for the entire project I was using Adobe Illustrator). I did these two designs just to try and get my ideas on the computer-nothing final. The one on the left is the first one and I didn't like how it turned out. I then did the one on the right. The green boxes represent where the text and information will go. To the right of that is my color scheme that I want to use for the poster. I got the color scheme off a website called Kuler.
Then I started to recieve some of his information. I then began to enter his information into text boxes and played around with the layout some more. I have had some problems with the spacing between the text words and the border of the rectangle around the text box. However, I have fixed that, despite it being very annoying, but it looks much better than it did before.
I currently have the first two columns filled with the text that I want there (background, hypothesis, methods, etc.) Today, Tommy e-mailed me his results so upon completion of this post I will begin adding his results, conclusions, graphs, etc. in the other two columns. There will be pictures added to the columns once I finish the text part. I plan on finishing within the next week. Then I will have a bunch of people from Tommy to Mr. Boothby to Mrs. Colfax take a look at the poster to get feedback on how to improve it. Then I will make the changes and have it printed and given to Tommy for his upcoming science fairs. Below is what I have done so far, and there will be a follow up post at the completion of the project with the final version.
Below is the first final computer generated version.
This was then e-mailed to both Tommy and Mrs. Colfax and both of them had revisions (both of their revision sheets are below-Tommy's is on the left and Mrs. Colfax's is on the right).
Once receiving each of their revisions I then went to work on making the required changes. Tommy and I met on a few occasions to discuss the progress of the poster and make some other changes. Below show progressions of how the poster evolved.
Then I checked back in with Tommy and Mrs. Colfax and made some last second changes. Tommy and I met one last time and I was given the ok to print. I then printed the final version pictured below and delivered it to the Science Academy. Tommy will be entering fairs within the next few weeks.
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