I wanted to create an information visualization based upon my coffee consumption at Starbuck but realized that the majority of purchases I made there was paid by cash. I couldn’t use my bank statement to calculate how much money I spend there. I really wanted to know my “latte factor” from David Bach who says that “putting aside as little as a few dollars a day for your future rather than spending it on little purchases such as lattes, bottled water, fast food, cigarettes, magazines and so on, can really make a difference between accumulating wealth and living paycheck to paycheck”. This is definitely true and I’m trying to break from my habits.

Back to the data visualization project. I decided to use IBM Many Minds for this project since it was easy to use and allowed me to view various visualization. I used data from the U.S. Census Bureau.

The first visualization is Consumer Complaints Against U.S. Airlines.
Data Set

Second Visualization: Children and Youth with Disabilities Served by Selected Programs. For this visualization I only used data for 2007.

I checked out the resources that were given to the class from Katherine. I went to Smashing Magazine: 10 Steps to the Perfect Portfolio Website. and also to resource for wireframing.

Then I did a mock up drawing in my notebook from looking at examples of other portfolio sites. From the mock up I looked at what portfolio template sites looked similar.

Here is the wireframe for the home page of the portfolio site:

I then decided on what colors I wanted to use on the site. This will probably change. I choose a green and purple color to use, it might be too bright. I used the illustrator to select a purple that I liked and used the color guide which gives complimentary, analogous, monchromatic and other color combinations.

I looked at several such as wordpress themes such as Shaken and Stirred, SimpleFolio, Brave Zeent and Blue Bubble and Boldy.

I decided on using the WordPress them Boldy since it was much similar to my sketch and had some extra features such as email contact forms and the integration of social networks.

Analogous Colors

Kindof Illusion of Transparency

This week we had to take a Color IQ Test. Before I finished I went back to the blue hues and made some changes. From the test results those where the areas that I did not do well in. Maybe I should have left the colors in place instead of re-arranging them.

This assignment was the hardest since I hardly know how to use Illustrator or Photoshop. I downloaded the font LLPikseli from dafont.com. I played around with the letters being uppercase or lowercase. For the font I was using lower case was better.
I tried. I knew was restricted to only using the text so I played around with the effects and coloring

I choose Steff Geissbuhler as the iconic logo designer because recognize some of his design logos in New York. He re-vamped the NBC logo, worked on Barneys, Timewarner cable logo as well.

Here is the presentation

Updated Business Card

Business Card PowerPoint

Typeface