We Were Promised Jetpacks Infographic

I chose to research the band  We were Promised Jetpacks. Out of all the bands that were options, it was one of the only bands who's music I enjoyed listening to and felt it would be easier for me to get a feel for the band if I actually wanted to listen to their music. Despite their songs having a sense of urgency(this was highlighted in an interview with the band while they were in New York), there lyrics can be very melancholy. I think their album covers fit the mood of the band perfect, using muted colours and very simple designs.

 














I wanted to combine the simplicity of their designs and the mood of their lyrics, so I tried to focus on their lyrics and what stood out to me personally from them. I noticed that their were many references to death, time, weather and home in their songs. These themes took up a good portion of the songs themselves. I still wanted to keep the simple design in mind, so tried to think of a way to show these references without making the design too intricate. I decided to use very basic symbols ro represent the porton if the song taken up with the references. I used the "helvetica inserat cyrillic upright" font in the design, as I want to use a sans serif font that was bold, but neat. I used muted colours used in the bands album covers(For some reason, the entire poster is showing up in only greys right now, apologies!), as I think they suit the overall sound of the band perfectly.

How did you get here?

Getting Around

For this I will be analysing my train ticket:

Font choice:
The font used is called "Rail Alphabet" which is similar to Helvetica and Arial, though Rail Alphabet is not available to the public. It is not printed onto the ticket with ink, but burnt onto the ticket. It has been used in the UK since the 60's. I think it was chosen as it is a basic font which is easy to read. It's purpose is to contain information that needs to be shown to train conductors, so it doesn't need to be decorative. 

Hierarchy:
Where there is some sort of hierarchy on the ticket (headings for each piece of information in a smaller font than the information itself), it appears messy and when looking at the ticket, nothing immediately catches the eye. Only once you get used to using these tickets (for me, on a daily basis) do you know where to look first (the from/to section on the bottom left). The only information that is made bold to stand out is "Single" on the bottom right hand corner.

Usability:  
As mentioned before, if someone uses these tickets often, they do get used to the rather cluttered layout of the tickets. For passengers using the tickets, anyone who's vision isn't very good may struggle with this as it's hard to focus when looking at it, and there seems to be little space to increase font size. For train conductors and other staff, if contains a lot of informtation releveant for them that means nothing to the passenger which could easily be resolved by changing the layout. 

I have tried to keep all information the same but make it look clearer and less messy. I used Arial for the redesign, and kept the orginal hierarchy, but took it a little step further to make it easier to be read. 

Alignment Exercise