Rethinkin'

Starting over, but using the same concept...

I'm going to use my top artists from the past year, because  I think it will look more interesting. I tend to make a playlist and listen to it for about three months, so showing my top music from the past year will show more accurately my favorite bands.

Not that anyone really cares, but I'm wasting time a little bit right now and I just really like typing so I'll post all my information..

Why? (5,203)

The Dodos (3,489)

Beirut (2,719)

Broken Social Scene (1,069)

Bob Dylan (1,024)

Sigur Ros (993)

Wolf Parade (944)

The Fiery Furnaces (936)

Girl Talk (858)

Modest Mouse (785)

Bonnie 'Prince' Billy (763)

Stars (734)

World's End Girlfriend (670)

Mirah (661)

Andrew Bird (655)

Cloud Cult (559)

Neutral Milk Hotel (444)

Vetiver (423)

Fleet Foxes (421)

The Blow (375)

The Bird and the Bee (353)

Andrew Ethier (276)

Also, I'm thinking about maybe putting them in a line in alphabetical order so that the sound waves don't just diminish in size, I feel like that might get a little boring..

And from what I understood from my crit in class I should rethink the 'key' at the bottom, try making the numbers the same size, the overall composition should be a hotdog instead of a hamburger, and maybe play with the colors, but I think I like them muted.. but thats just because I prefer muted colors a lot of the time, as you may have noticed.

Thranks for yo help.

printers: god's most reliable creation?

My printer and Illustrator aren't getting along for some reason, and only the gray background is printing out... until I mediate this disagreement I'll just post a better screen shot of the sound waves on here..........

Working more on the first concept...

I don't really like it very much, but I don't know what to do. I'm kind of stuck.

(I forgot to explain it before.. the numbers inside the sound wave represent the number of songs I have listened to by each artist in the last seven days.. There will eventually be ten artists and I also have all that other information that I could show, and would like to show, but I just don't know how yet)

Again..

So this is what I've been working on since my last post (with a break to watch the debate)

Better?

Its not finished and I don't have them in place or colored, but I wanted to post my progress...

More

I don't like where this is going.

I think I'm going to start over. blagh.

Info Graphic Attempt...

So I've been working for hours and I'm having a pretty hard time with this...

Here's what I have so far.

I was trying to show the number of tracks played by each artist in the form of sound waves..

It isn't really doing anything for me now, but I guess I'll continue with it a little longer just to see how it goes.

Its very possible that I will end up changing it.

Info Graphic

So I have all the information for my info graphic.

I decided to continue with the idea of using the music i listen to the most, broken down into artists and tracks. I think I'm going to try to show both of those from the last twelve months, the last six months. the last three months and the last seven days. We'll see if I can incorporate all those somehow.

I'm thinking about maybe using the following as reference points for my design:

(1) Equalizer

(2) Speakers

(3) Record Player

(4) Show Posters

(5) Sound Waves

(6) iTunes|iPod

(7) Records|CDs|Tapes

But I don't want it to look like iTunes or an iPod.. I don't know, I'm scared to really do this so I think I've been procrastinating, even though this has been on my mind for weeks...

Here we go. Updates later!

(Also, I'm going to be working more on my Specimen book, because I want to be proud of it when its finished and I'm not completely happy with it as it is now, so any feedback you guys could give me would really be appreciated)

Thanks!