THIS IS BANANAS!
PRINT, INFORMATION DESIGN, AND STORYTELLING
THIS IS BANANAS highlights the surprisingly dark history behind the banana industry. It comes as a shock to discover that such a simple fruit has a history involving child labor, environmental impacts due to chemical usage, colonialism, and an abuse of workers surviving on a below-minimum wage salary. With the data and facts collected the infographic created allows a viewer to digest this topic to their liking. This infographic begins to recognize that the issues with the banana industry often get overlooked because no one considers how fruit can cause such damage.
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PROCESS: CATEGORIZATION
FURTHER BREAK-DOWN
Dissecting all the information collected and creating a system that will make the infographic easy to understand.
To create more of an understanding of how all this information is going to contribute to the infographic I created categories or themes seen repeatedly in the banana industry. In the themes seen below important pieces of facts are highlighted to create a hierarchy within the variety of information.
PROCESS: SKETCHES
In these illustrations I go through different ways I can symbolically display information. I wanted to highlight valuable facts that connected to the great issues seen in the banana industry through illustrative designs.
