Radio Lab First Try

Just some branding for radio lab, one without text,

and one with

Logo

Updated Logo. Sorry for the back-to-back post but I finally found an image I felt was lacking.
I fixed the blur to look like a microscope. Not sure about how much/little of the microscopic "stuff" should be around, the top seems off balance, the bottom is busy.
Thanks

Logo

This is a slightly more refined sketch of my Radiolab logo. I was aiming for the effect of viewing through a microscope, although the blurry parts smoothed out a bit when I uploaded it. Also any thoughts on the odd cellular forms cruising around would be helpful (Im interested in pursuing those as a system for the packaging).
I'm also not sure how I feel about the Radio Lab, as it feels a bit removed from the microscope idea.
As always comments are very appreciated.

So here's what I've been working on.  Not really sure how I feel about the radiowave thing, or how exactly to fit things together.  Feedback would be really great!

This is the radiolab logo I liked the most. Trying out some variations on it. Feedback would be highly appreciated.

The Lovely Package

The Lovely Package is another great packaging design blog to visit for inspiration.

Reboot of my Pictograms

I tried some new things on my pictograms here.

one more to be done.

the other side

Heres the other side of the pamphlet. the two panels in the center of the bottom row are the back and front.

Alan Front

Here is my idea for the front. It is myclock pictogram along with all of my other pictograms, along with a pie chart of work and leisure results.

Alan 8 Fold

I'm still playing with placement in the middle, of the bar graphs and pictograms. If anyone has any ideas all i'm all ears.

Large back panel of pamphlet

Here it is so far, feedback is really appreciated!

Silkscreen and Blank CD & DVDs

5inch.com has an amazing variety for inspiration and also materials. You can buy blank hubs, cases and CD/DVDs.

Just for the sake of posting, here's two previews of my work in progress in color. I haven't updated my content or non-content pictograms yet, so the ones that are there are just placers. This is a cartoon character that I always use for myself so I thought it would be cool to use it for my pictograms. I know I still need to add two more panels but I couldn't figure them out yet. Also, I thought it would be funny to add quotes to each category - that is, if they will fit on the page... it's pretty small. Anyway, here goes.

Neat Seven Deadly Sins Infographic

http://www.lasvegassun.com/photos/galleries/2009/mar/25/seven-deadly-sins-nationwide/

Rough 8 panels

This is probably coming a bit late, but feedback helps at any point. Anyways here is my rough outline for the 8 panels. I'm still not sure how I'll fold it, I had ideas but I'm not sure anymore.
One problem I keep running into is Graphs that are vertcial are really killed in a horizontal panel, so i may end up trying to fold it so that vertical panels can be aligned together, as well as horizontal. Maybe making a 4/4 set up. I'm not sure if you can see it, but there is light text of my data in the intro and I wasn't sure if I should have it in only a single panel. Thanks for the help!

Revised Pictograms

I fixed my pictograms and added some color (not sure about it though, it might be changed once i figure out my color pallet for the pamphlet.)

Here's my first draft of my back panel. I am not really sure how I feel about it.

I was trying to use scale and transparency to rate how often I used each mode of transportation, and at the same time show location. I'm not sure if labeling it with numbers and percentages is necessary for understanding or required in the assignment.

My new pictograms! wahoo

I am thinking about getting rid of the whole arrow motif all together just to make my pictograms simpler, that way they only symbolize one simple thing when it comes to creating the more complex infographics. I am a little worried that my overall transportation icon sticks out now because it's the only one with arrows...

I also attached a sketch with a bold arrow behind the picto just to give you an idea of what they look like with an arrow behind.

Nick Felton's We Tell Stories

A collaboration between Penguin Books and Nick Felton.

A Love Letter For You

Beatiful Steve Powers Mural Project in Philly.

Great Poster

From this site.

More Goodies from Good

One Nation Graphic

From Good Transparency.

If the World Were A Village of 100 People

Here's the website for the "World of 100" project.

Bliss and the Language of the Pictogram

Here's a nice survey of Otto Neurath's work, and a downloadable .pdf of the work I showed in class today.

I tried cleaning the pictograms up and pushing them to a rougher point.

I haven't really come up with a good replacement for "quality" yet. Which is really categorizing the food I ate into organic, raw, vegetarian etc vs containing corn syrup, artificial sugars etc. Any ideas??

I've been working more on my pictograms, still not sure how they're working. Opinions would be appreciated!

Pictograms

Sorry I didn't post these to the blog sooner. I emailed my first round of pictograms. My categories were
Calls: Missed, Received, Dialed,
Texts: Sent, Received.

Right now I feel like the Text hands look a bit like turkey legs or funky arms coming out of the phone. Any Feedback would be great.
Thanks

I know I'm a little behind the times in terms of posting these...

But I decided to focus on Transportation and then break it down by:

walking

-how long

-how often

-how/why was it fun

riding my bike

-how long

-how often

-how/why was it fun

airplane

-how long

-how often

-how/why was it fun

lightrail

-how long

-how often

-how/why was it fun

car

-how long

-how often

-how/why was it fun

For my pictograms, I wanted to focus mainly on energy and motion. I feel like orange arrows tie them all together highlighting the idea that transportation is about movement and direction.

As for the color, I'd ultimately want the orange to be super fluorescent like street signs might be.