The first draft of this visualisation was created in about 8 hours before the deadline for USA by Designers expired, on the day before I had to move out of my house and before I’d started any packing! So, to say I was rushed, stressed, and clock watching is a HUGE understatement.
What’s shown below is the updated graphic with about half hours more work on it since the submitted version for the competition. The original idea I had was to do about four visualisations looking at wealth, quality of life, culture, and size. I’d already spent time gathering and compiling the data a couple of weeks beforehand from various sources, but then other projects took priority (again) and my time lines got screwed (again!). So here’s just one: size.
How big is the USA poster
It’s a visualisation focused on showing the size of the USA compared to other countries in the world.
The process and older drafts
This is the first draft that was completed with only 5 minutes to spare before the deadline ended, using an automatically generated colour palette.
This is the second draft after I decided I hated the colours, and decided to go with a monochromatic green variant to represent the land.
This is the third draft after I decided to try and colour code everything by the dominant country’s flag colour, then gave up halfway through as I realised I was going backwards.
This is the final draft you see above. I’ve taken out the block colours and used a stronger line weight to pick out the more important areas of the visualisation. As it’s a focus on the USA, I’ve brought out the USA’s area on the pie with their customary red, white and blue colours.
…and I did try an inverted version but never really fancied it.
Now I’ll have to wait to see if my entry gets picked up by the project, and try and be cheeky and ask the organisers if they’d be so kind as to accept the updated version. I couldn’t leave it after the second draft anyhow, it just wasn’t up to spec.
