Day: December 9, 2015

Here is my finished website! I am extremely happy with the turnout as it looks how I originally set it out to. It’s appealing to children, there is a nice space theme throughout and it is informative yet fun! For my mobile version I am just going to use the same components for my website, but by changing the size and the layout it will keep with the same style and will hopefully look good in context.

Website

Now I have the main components for my website, I thought I would start making it. I made another little section explaining slow and fast relative using rain and clouds which again looks very kiddy-friendly and contains some interesting information. I created a title to go alongside the vector of Einstein- ‘Theory Of Relativity, The Easy Way’. I decided to call it this as it shows parents that this isn’t going to be anything complex, and it will hopefully catch more attention from children as they’re more likely to take the easy option if they have to do something like this for their homework. I will also transfer this title and vector throughout my designs so that they all match up with each other nicely. Finally I also replaced the O’s in ‘Theory’ and ‘Of’ with the Einstein vector just to make it more fun for the children.

I added a little sentence under Einsteins vector saying ‘Click on me to see some fun facts about my life’. I am going to create another webpage with a list of interesting facts about Einstein just to add somethings about his life and make it less about the theory of relativity. After I finished that part, there was a big empty space underneath the title and above the infographic so I needed something to fill the gap. As my work is all space themed, I thought the best thing to add was a photo of our solar system. I made a black background on the website but I thought I would play around with it on Photoshop to make it look more space themed. I added a noise filter to the background and changed the blurriness and added a levels filter. This then created a cool starry background. I did the same thing with the picture of the solar system so it all kept within the same style.

I carried out a lot of research on infographics to help me decide what I wanted to create. I knew a lot of people created an infographic on Einstein’s life so I wanted to go for a more academic approach and create an infographic on the actual relative theory. I found a very simple and basic video on youtube that explained it as well as I could probably understand so I rolled with this, made a few notes and got on with making my infographic.

I also found an interesting website (unfortunately I cannot find the link so I can’t include it) which explained how the earth moves around with the speed of light using clouds and rain. So I thought I would combine the two and make an infographic about the speed of light and rain drops. I did this by creating a vector of a cloud and rain drops on Illustrator, and copying each rain drop to make enough to complete my infographic. I then added in the little bits of information and added a simple yet fun question for the children to answer according to the facts and figures I’ve given them.

To start off with I wanted to make a little Einstein figure that I could use all throughout my work- to give it a nice house style and so the children would know who they’re learning about. I found a photo of Einstein on Google and opened up Illustrator and started making myself a little vector. I did this by using the pen tool and copying the shape of his head, hair and his facial features. I think I did pretty good job making a vector as I asked a few of my friends to tell me who it looked like and they all said Einstein. 

Now the typography brief is over and done with I can concentrate on learning about Einstein’s Theory of Relativity and creating an amazing infographic for it. To start off with I had to carry out a lot of research as I had absolutely no idea what the theory of relativity is about. I looked around at some infographics to gain some inspiration and after doing some basic research on relativity I kind of knew which path I wanted to go down. I want to design an infographic to help kids learn about the theory of relativity. With this in mind I thought it would be a good idea to keep my website etc quite basic, with a space theme that will attract kids into learning about it.