I mentioned last week how vital visual additions are to any lesson, especially when working with students with reading impairments. This week’s lesson on infographics was the perfect continuation of that thought. Image-finding is the foundation, while putting them together in an informative and visually-pleasing way is the next level up. So on my journey upwards, I focused on creating an infographic this week while keeping in mind what I’ve learned about images, color, and composition.

For this infographic, I drew on my lessons from the other course I’m taking this summer, Young Adult Literature. I wanted to try using a color palette extracted from an image in order to create a harmonious palette–in the future, I think I will try to find a brighter image. Though these colors are harmonious, they aren’t very exciting! The image at the bottom, small as it is, was the hardest part. I found it very difficult to find a book stack where I could crop out the background and still get enough books into the narrow, horizontal space without bleeding up beneath the text. It really is true that a thing done well looks effortless — good design looks far easier than it is! Anyone bent over their computer futzing for half an hour over a tiny image of a stack of books can attest.