Our second assignment in Information illustration was a focus on the different kinds of way you can map information. Mine included relationship maps, diagrams, charts, and a navigational/geographical map. We were given a lot of free range on this project with regards to subject matter. I’ve recently gotten into graphic novels, and thought that it would be great fun to do this project on the X-men, since there are so many characters and the information on them is so easily accessible. Let me pause a moment to really emphasize how many characters there were.
SO. MANY.
I organized them all by which team they were a part of (X-Men, Brotherhood, Avengers, etc.), their power level (Omega, Delta, Alpha, etc.), their power type (physically-based, mind-based, and all things inbetween), where they were in the world, and then took some of the more popular mutants and showed a small fraction of the relationships between them.
I added numbers to the pie chart this time! Though I wish I had done it differently. It doesn’t seem to flow with the rest of the project.
I think this was one of the most difficult projects I have worked on to date with regards to information organizing. It’s very difficult to organize the mutants into specific power types, considering so many of them are diverse and carry more than one trait- which is why I chose a van diagram—despite how hideous it looks. I fiddled with that one for a long time.
Once again, another fun way of working, but not really something I think I would pursue.
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