This is just one rough example of what my layout might look like, although it's still pending. I'm most likely going to have a digital piece rather than print.

So the first screen would have the over sized character there and his stomach would glow to indicate the viewer to click on it's stomach.



Once the stomach is clicked, it will zoom into the stomach and separate into different layers. Each layer would represent either, consumption, obesity, or health.



When you click on the top layer, the bottom layers would fade and a bar on top will appear. As seen on the right, there are two symbols indicating genders. To view the statistics, you would just have to drag one over to the left circle. I'm most likely going to have line or bar graph coming up from the platform.



I'm not sure if I'm going to stick with this and I don't know exactly how the whole piece would come together once I include symbols, but this is just one general idea I thought of.

Sorry about this coming out so late this weekend.
So I had this idea of working with transparencies so that you could see how the hurricanes have progressed so it will look something like this.

Here is a closer look at Hurricane David from 1979. Please ignore the smaller circles. It was a Category 5, but by the time it hit the US it was only a Category 2. I'm not sure if the black splotches are clear. I have tracked the amount of days as well, which I hope you can get.

Here's a static example for what I'm thinking about doing. It has the top two colleges on both lists. Note that I haven't figured out how I'm going to indicate which college is on which list, but I'm not sure I'm going to - maybe I should leave some mystery up to user/reader?

Is it clear what things mean here? Especially the circles? The gender signs and colors should help, but also I wanted the size of the circles to represent campus population roughly. They're not exactly in proportion to one another, since they would have to be either some really really really tiny ones or some really really huge ones, but I think it gets the idea across.

Let me know what you think. Thanks.

Sketch

There was a bit of confusion with the location on the last post, so I'm just going to get rid of that part of information. I sketched a few from abstract -> literal based on what would be relevant to the effects of fast food products. Main ones would be how much of the product is consumed, which leads to health issues and obesity. Gender and age is also shown.

So I have been working on hurricane category, how to show number of deaths per storm and the amount of money spent. I was also sketching out ideas for showing location, but it became too abstract and unrecognizable. I ended up deciding to either use the name in words or the location by map. Also, I'm not sure I want to display the information digitally.

Craigslist update

So I've been successfully parsing craigslist with a little scraping program that saves entries into simple XML. I limited the scope to entries within the last 3 days, but I suspect it's still going to be too much data to work with. It's been running for a number of hours now and it's about a third of the way through the US with over 50MB of data saved. I really won't get a sense of how much is too much though, until I try parsing it back into a program and try to organize it in real time.

Anyway, I've also started playing around with icon ideas, mostly looking at gender (of both the poster or who they're looking for) and category (what their looking for). Some sketches below:

College symbols/icons/ideas

I sketched a few ideas, which hopefully you can see in the image to the left.

For distinguishing which list a college is on, I was thinking of just doing color-coding of whatever symbol/icon I choose.

While I don't have any animation or sound, I was thinking that I would introduce each icon as the user chooses it (or whatever) with some animation, something more than just having the item appear there.

I'll keep thinking about it this weekend, I'd like to come up with something a little more interesting than these...