The largest drawing is the most pixelated one – If you drew it with Ps instead of Ai remember to make the inital resolution to be 300 ppi or higher to ensure this doesn’t happen.
Is there a consistent layout logic? (e.g where title and key are placed, is there a page offset, alignment…etc) This helps to keep the viewer focus on the actual information rather than be annoyed by the confusion caused by the layout.
Beside the large drawing at the center the rest of the drawings are of similar size. You may want to set up a clear hierarchy of sizes to tell a clearer story. Moreover, very often size of diagram goes in hand with amount of information. If you have a large drawing without a lot of info in it, it may look like a huge blank space. (e.g the diagram at the bottom left)
The decreasing number of salmon over location can be done in the same maner as the Minard diagram — There is no need to show to salmon image. In fact, this is quite confusing because the reduced size of the salmon comes across as a drop in weight – a condition rather than conveying population.
The bottom right diagram is interesting – but it could be further abstracted. Missing in here is the dimension of time how long do they stay at a particular location. It could also be combined with the larger diagram at the center. The representation of mountain background and river are unnecessary.
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The largest drawing is the most pixelated one – If you drew it with Ps instead of Ai remember to make the inital resolution to be 300 ppi or higher to ensure this doesn’t happen.
Is there a consistent layout logic? (e.g where title and key are placed, is there a page offset, alignment…etc) This helps to keep the viewer focus on the actual information rather than be annoyed by the confusion caused by the layout.
Beside the large drawing at the center the rest of the drawings are of similar size. You may want to set up a clear hierarchy of sizes to tell a clearer story. Moreover, very often size of diagram goes in hand with amount of information. If you have a large drawing without a lot of info in it, it may look like a huge blank space. (e.g the diagram at the bottom left)
The decreasing number of salmon over location can be done in the same maner as the Minard diagram — There is no need to show to salmon image. In fact, this is quite confusing because the reduced size of the salmon comes across as a drop in weight – a condition rather than conveying population.
The bottom right diagram is interesting – but it could be further abstracted. Missing in here is the dimension of time how long do they stay at a particular location. It could also be combined with the larger diagram at the center. The representation of mountain background and river are unnecessary.