"branding the type" my first attempt at project 3!

Project three was somewhat of a different direction than the other projects. I got a chance to explore the typography in representing my name in many different forms. I also got to sketch out simple road signs with different meanings behind them.
I found the first part of the project to be enjoyable to some extent. Some of the representations were a bit more challenging than others for me such as the taxi driver, magician, and the taxi driver. I liked most of my outcomes. My favorite was probably either the acrobat or the chameleon. I feel it will be more of a challenge to transfer my ideas onto In-design, I'm hoping i find similar fonts for at least a few of them.
The second part of the project, sketching out road signs was more challenging for me than the name representations. I felt my sketches turned out a bit sloppy and some its hard to tell what I'm trying to represent.

This was the first step, hopefully I have a successful finish to project number three.

final attempt at visual data

I did some more researching online in search of interesting data and I came across the Fargo floods. It caught my eye and I thought I could put something together representing the data I found. I printed it out and set it aside to deal with later.
Later came soon enough and so my attempt began. I thought the finished graphic had to be done on the computer so I attempted to do so with the In-design program. I had taken desktop publishing the semester before so I knew how to use the program, but I hadn't used the program since then.To say the least I forgot a thing or two. My attempt at final visual didn't turn out as I had imagined it to. I was less than satisfied with my work. I think for this project I should have stuck with drawing in my sketch book.

finding data gone visual

In finding visual data I at first was somewhat thrown off as to what kind of data to look for. Off hand when I think of visual data I think of all types of graphs.
My first search for visual data was graphs, I did my research online and found more than enough types of graphs. I felt I needed more visual data than just graphs. I continued to search in hopes to find more.
As I continued searching I came across the many types of visual data that is out there. I realized that more things than you think are considered visual data. The most interesting of my finds was weather data. Weather data is most often visual in some way. I found it interesting in the many ways it is put into visual form. From the radar map, temperature map, to pictures of clouds explaining a cloudy day ahead.
I feel more of our world is in the visual form than I assume a lot of people realize.