week 9 revised bubble infographic - ckowaliczko

Above is the revised and final version of my informational graphic. It displays a timeline of when bubble solution was first being sold to when it became more popular and started selling bottles by the millions. It also shows three of the most popular and most successful bubble solution companies, including the first ever company that began in our hometown of Chicago, Illinois. 

week 8 bubble infographic - ckowaliczko

Above is the original version of my informational graphic. I chose to graphically illustrate where bubbles begin and the companies that made bubble solutions possible. The first ever company to first start selling bubble solution was Chemtoy. The company was established in Chicago, Illinois around the year 1940. The company has progressed and now makes all different kinds of children's toys. 

week 7 image trace - ckowaliczko

Because I chose to do an informational graphic about bubbles, I decided to illustrate the picture above. The picture shows a young girl blowing bubbles outside. Below is my original illustrational of the picture after tracing over it on Adobe Illustrator. I traced this picture by uploading it onto Ai and then using the pen tool to draw over it. This involved creating many different layers. Once creating a layer, I would lock it in place, make it invisible, and then move onto the next layer. 

week 6 info graphics - ckowaliczko

For my informational graphic, I chose to do the word "bubbly" to clearly represent bubbles. Some surveys that could this information graphic could be possibly represent are: the most popular year for bubbles since they were invited, or if they are still as popular now than when they first came out. Another survey that could be done is possibly if more bubbles, or fizz, are produced from one carbonated drink as opposed to another. 

Below are some examples of information graphics:

These informational graphics are great examples, because they easily illustrate the information they are trying to provide. They all include pictures or diagrams of the information, which make trying to understand the data easier, as some include a lot of words. They are mostly all colorful without being too chaotic and cluttered. The font is neat and organized as well. 

week 5 illustrated words - ckowaliczko

I created this illustration after the class described my letters as looking like arrows or a target. I spelled out the word "target" using the letters I had already made. I then illustrated a target behind the actual word to really bring the word to life. I created the target using the ellipse tool and simply filling it in using the fill tool. The mere fact that the letters themselves look like a target really illustrate the word, but including the word "target" and adding the target in the background make it even easier to visualize.  The same goes for the illustration below. 

For this illustration, I chose the word "bubbly," because the bubble-letter font was the first that came to my mind. I created this using the pen tool to draw the letters, then using the ellipse tool to illustrate the bubbles in the background. I also chose to make the letters blue, because it seemed to be the best fit to display bubbles. I then drew bubbles in the background of the letters to really explain what word it was that I was trying to draw. 

week 4 abc stylized - ckowaliczko

This is the original version. I created the alphabet only including capital letters. I made these letters by using the pen tool on Adobe Illustrator, then I filled the shapes in using a red fill. I also created all of the letters to be remotely the same size. After other classmates critiquing my letters, they explain the font as looking like a target or bullseye. I then experimented with different strokes. The picture below is the result of this. 

This is the version after I played around with different types of brushes. The brush stroke I used to outline these letters was located under the "Arrow_Special" window. You can find this by clicking on the Window tab at the top of Abode Illustrator. Then click on Brushes, and then finally click on the arrow in the bottom left of the Brushes window. I think this effect really does give the letters a target font. 

week 3 abc lines - ckowaliczko

I created this using Adobe Illustrator. I used the pen tool to make the outline of the shapes. This is my original version. I created the alphabet that includes both capital and lowercase letters. It also includes the numbers 0-9. You can see that the letters and numbers do not have a precise outline and that they are not perfectly rounded, but you can still clearly decipher which letter or number is which.