Blizard_Zack_222S20_1.2a
(By: Zack Blizard, Annaliesa Mehler, Kiara Robinson)
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(By: Zack Blizard, Annaliesa Mehler, Kiara Robinson)
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I appreciate the playing with line types and color in this, though it could probably use more variation in lineweight to help in its expression. If you had to accomplish this whole assignment in only black lines, how would you do it?
Board composition is quite nice and clear. Though, you could have dulled the color in the back a bit more.
I think another level of clarity would benefit these diagrams. For instance, I think defining what “bee activity” is would help in understanding the map. On top of that, what is causing the separation between state lines? Is there a pollution effect? Is there deforestation? Plotting activity such as that in conjunction would speak to why the circles occur where they do and to the magnitude they are.
I would also be careful with how you use arrows. Arrows, most of the time, hold a vector value to them and that could be read as another level of information, when in reality the diagram was focusing on the number of arrows around this nucleus to express the information. Maybe if the arrows took a chaotic “bee-like” flight pattern in which they crossed and created more opaque areas during certain seasons.
Lastly, the affect of the diagram in the top right is reduced by being so exact in the shaping of state lines and the world. A simple two circle diagram would be powerful to express the relationship in proportion of bees in a state vs. bees globally.