Thesis: How DNA was collected to reveal the history of early human migration outside of Africa.
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Hiya Islam,
First off I just wanted to say this infographic came out well! It could be a page pulled right out of a science textbook! I’m referencing the files you have uploaded in the class folder in Google Drive:
– The overall message is clear. It defines what human migration is and the DNA science behind figuring out everything we know about it. I think it’s clear with its defining parts throughout the infographic. The sub-topics are clear and straight to the point.
– You did a brilliant job with your research. I feel like I can come up to you and ask you about anything related to this topic! The simplicity behind the visualization of what SNP does is clear and efficient which is also shown everywhere.
– The infographic has a clear hierarchy from left to right. The only part that made me look twice was the actual title itself, which is in the far right. Maybe if it switched places with the map of the world it might help? Even though you only used one or two main colors and black, that was all you needed to express the sub topics. The layout of the infographic is overall very strong. I would have liked to see “The First Move” and “The DNA Science” with a little more breathing room in between them but that’s minor. There is also a couple of hyphens in the body copy (The title copy and part 2 of “The DNA Science” – but also very minor fixes.
This infographic really is impeccable! I love the illustrations as well as the look and style of the infographic. Good job!
Great feedback Hoa!
Hi Islam,
Wow! The graphics on your poster was amazing! I love your topic and how well your elements are able to back it up. The titles are very clear and the sub heading are very clear. I also love the texture on your background I love the i’m not overwhelmed with too much information because it’s broken up perfectly.
From your poster on the google drive and the poster you posted on OpenLab, I feel the placement of your title works better on your poster uploaded openlab.
Hey Islam,
First things first, beautiful presentation overall. Impressed by the illustration in alignment to the human species types. Visually is very appealing in fact. Choice of texture paper-like background really gives a historical feel.
There is a huge amount of space between your copy of human migration and the family tree. Is there a way that you can tighten that? Maybe brainstorm a way you can make human migration stand out so that the viewer knows for sure that this is what your poster is about; body copy as well.
Alignment wise the left and the right side is amazingly aligned. Just the amount of spacing throughout the right side could be adjusted.
Islam,
Very well done! Your info-graphic is beautiful and well thought out. I like ‘Islam_p1-CompFinal.pdf’
Here are my thoughts:
1. Take a look at the link here. I thought it would be a good one for you to look at – especially for how to show migration over continents. I think you should make the footprints on the upper left side much smaller, the same size, and have them travel all the way to another continent. See the Lucas example for inspiration: https://www.lucasinfografia.com/Arctic-greed
2. Check the second paragraph under ‘The DNA Science’ and make sure it indents like the others.
3. I would have that header read ‘DNA: the Science’
4. I would move ‘The Family Tree’ over to the last column.
5. Looks like you have an extra space just in front of the paragraph that starts out ‘Genetic Marker is a gene…’
6. Maybe add a thin blue line under the first column, the width of the first column, and so that it lines up with the baseline of the last line of text in the second column: ‘…essentially the SNP is.’
7. In the second column, move the blurb of text that ends with ‘…individuals or species.’ and also budge it down so that it sits on the same baseline as the other paragraph and the thin blue line.
8. Make sure you save a high-resolution PDF (for print) in the Google docs folder, currently it looks like you may have saved it for screen.