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IDA Poster

For my final project, I chose to focus on the mental health crisis among college students. I decided for this to be directed at SUNY Brockport students and possibly the faculty as well, if they were to step in and help a student find information about resources. I believe my infographic successfully advocates for my topic because it is a very easy to read poster with a lot of information compacted down into graphical statistics. I included a QR code which leads right to the SUNY Resource Finder website for a direct way for students to reach out for help just by using their phone and phone numbers to the Hazen Counseling Center as well as numbers to crisis text lines that anyone, not just students, can use. I broke my poster into different sections of graphics and text for people to be able to easily retain information. I used more graphics than text because people are more likely to quickly glance over pictures rather than stand there and read.

I believe that if someone walked by my poster they would be able to retain the information quickly. I used graphics and illustrations that are easy to see and read. I created a phone and a text message graphic in the resources section of my poster and a QR code big enough to catch someone’s attention without overpowering the rest of the poster. I believe that my poster is legible and unified. The typefaces I used are very easy to read and I used shades of blues throughout the piece to bring it all together.

I knew I wanted to create graphs or charts to show statistics in my poster. I also wanted to create a graphic of thought bubbles coming off of the outline of a head to list reasons why students could be struggling with their mental health, rather than just listing them as bullet points to create something more pleasing to the viewer. I wanted to keep my poster pretty symmetrical so I created two large blue bars on either side of the poster and those held my charts and graph statistics.

The feedback I received during critique helped me organize my poster better. For example, it was suggested that I matched the colors more in my project to give a more cohesive design. Also my title was off center to the left at first, with a couple of sentences explaining what the poster was about to the right. I then moved the text under the title and centered the both of them in the middle and it made a big difference and was easier to read. Centering the title also allowed me to make the blue bars on each side taller and spread out the charts a bit more. By doing this, I was able to add text under one of my pie charts, which helped fill in the space better.

I have used Adobe Illustrator before but I definitely learned a lot with this project. I learned how to make the pie charts and bar graphs right in Illustrator. It was super easy and the charts looked a lot better than the ones I had made in a different program.

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carringtonscreations · 2 years ago

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IDA Process

My infographic is going to focus on the mental health crisis that exists among college students and why it needs to be taken as seriously as physical health. More often than not, students do not reach out for help, and it can lead to devastating consequences. The target audience for this infographic is SUNY Brockport students and faculty. This topic is important because many people, not just college students, suffer in silence and oftentimes help comes when it is too late. It also is very important to me as someone who’s struggled with my own mental health throughout my life, and I have been in a position where I didn’t know where to start. In order to illustrate my information clearly, I am going to include statistics on the amount of college students feeling depressed and/or anxious, and how many of those said students do not reach out. I am going to create two pie charts, a bar graph, and two illustrations with these statistics about college students and mental health. I am going to use different shades of blue throughout the graphic for a few reasons: One being that blue is typically associated with sadness or “feeling blue”. And two, because blue can represent tranquility and relaxation. I don’t want the colors to be overwhelming and alarming to people who read this infographic but rather feel a sense of calmness, especially if they read it to find help that they need. I am going to include links to SUNY Brockport’s counseling center, which is in the Hazen Health Center, and the SUNY Resource Finder, which allows people to search for help throughout all NYS counties and SUNY campuses. I will also include phone numbers to the 988 Lifeline and a Crisis text line. I want this infographic to target students that need help but don’t know where to start, to finally take a step in the right direction in making their mental health a priority. I want the typefaces I use to grab someone’s attention without being too loud, therefore the main headers will be in Didot, which I am going to set in a bold style. Sub headers will be in PT Sans Narrow, a clean, simple serif font, and the body text will be Grantha Sangam MN. This infographic needs to be legible but also able to catch someone’s eyes.

Target Audience for Campaign: SUNY Students (average age of ~18-22) and faculty

Statistics

1 in 3 college students experience depression and anxiety

50% of the population will experience a mental health condition during their lifetime

75% of students do not reach out for help

Up to 44% of students reported having symptoms of depression and anxiety

According to the CDC, the percentage of adults with anxiety or a depressive disorder increased from 36.4% to 41.5% between August 2020-February 2021 (biggest increase seen in 18–29-year old’s)

Reasons Students are Struggling

Pressure to be perfect

Hyper Achievement culture in the US ("The American Dream")

Students are sleep deprived

Teaching children to give 100% at all times at everything they do is unrealistic

Resources for SUNY students/faculty

SUNY has announced a $24 million mental health and wellness services expansion as of September 2022

SUNY launched a Mental Health Resource finder for students to access help within SUNY and state-wide (https://www.suny.edu/mental-health/resources/)

Expanding after-hours care, creating more safe spaces on campuses

Providing students with emergency mini-grants to seek help off-campus

Brockport’s counseling center: (585) 395-2414 or appointments can be made through myHazen

Crisis Text Line: GOT5U to 741-741

988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline (Replacing the 1-800-273-TALK number)

Sources

Reese Druckenmiller, L.I.C.S.W. “College Students and Depression.” Mayo Clinic Health System, Mayo Clinic Health System, 5 Aug. 2022, https://www.mayoclinichealthsystem.org/hometown-health/speaking-of-health/college-students-and-depression#:~:text=A%20recent%20study%20found%20that,identification%20and%20treatment%20of%20depression.

9-21-22 SUNY Expands Mental Health Services - SUNY. https://www.suny.edu/suny-news/press-releases/9-22/9-21-22/.

“Mental Health Guide.” College Stats, 9 Oct. 2017, https://collegestats.org/resources/mental-health-guide/.

Resource Finder - SUNY - State University of New York. https://www.suny.edu/mental-health/resources/.

Media, Siege. “Ultimate Guide to Maintaining Mental Health for College Students.” Online Schools Report, 27 Oct. 2020, https://www.onlineschoolsreport.com/college-student-mental-health/.

“'A Generation Exposed to Everything, Everywhere': Why College Students Struggle with Mental Health.” Georgia Public Broadcasting, https://www.gpb.org/news/2019/05/20/generation-exposed-everything-everywhere-why-college-students-struggle-mental.

Telecounseling Initiative to Support Mental Health - SUNY. https://www.suny.edu/features/telecounseling/.

“Local, State and National Resources.” SUNY Online, 15 Dec. 2021, https://online.suny.edu/students/local-state-and-national-resources/.

“The Importance of Mental Health and Wellness.” SUNY Online, 14 Dec. 2021, https://online.suny.edu/students/the-importance-of-mental-health-and-wellness/.“Home.” Lifeline, https://988lifeline.org/.

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carringtonscreations · 2 years ago

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Typographer Magazine Spread

I am really proud of how my spread turned out. I think that the layout and use of space turned out really well. I didn't want this to look like a normal spread that is very text heavy and rather use graphics to convey information about my typographer. I wanted to create a balance between her picture and the type specimens I used and make the page look even. I also wanted to create movement and I believe that the timeline at the bottom really helps your eyes move from left to right across the pages. The use if the columns really helped me achieve the balance I was looking for within this piece. I feel like I did grow as a designer with this project because now I feel more confident using InDesign than I did before. I learned how to correctly layout text in a specific space within the columns.

Sources:

“Carol Twombly.” Carol Twombly | Adobe Fonts, https://fonts.adobe.com/designers/carol-twombly.

Friedlander , Joel. “Typeface Designer Carol Twombly's Short but Brilliant Career.” The Book Designer, 10 Mar. 2010, https://www.thebookdesigner.com/carol-twombly-an-extraordinary-type-designer/.

“Carol Twombly Fonts - Fonts.com.” Fonts.com, https://www.fonts.com/browse/designers/carol-twombly.

Typefaces. Carol Twombly, http://luc.devroye.org/fonts-26216.html.

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carringtonscreations · 2 years ago

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Found Objects

This is my final product for the Found Objects project. I wanted to show my love for being creative with different mediums that I enjoy using. I chose to keep the background empty to put emphasis on the objects I used to create the letters. Originally in my sketches, I had white Crayola markers as part of the first E, but decided against using them since I was using a white desktop. Instead, I used my favorite pens, Papermate Flairs and one Stablio marker. With this piece, I wanted to show how diverse the art world truly is. Being able to create art with a standard pencil and markers, to drawing on an iPad and using the tools within the digital realm to make something just as beautiful.

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carringtonscreations · 2 years ago

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Carol Twombly Research

Carol Twombly was born on June 13, 1959 in Concord Massachusetts. She studied sculpture at the Rhode Island School of Design. However, she would later change her major to graphic design, saying that “I discovered that communicating through graphics - by placing black shapes on a white page - offered a welcome balance between freedom and structure.” Twombly also studied at Stanford University and is one of only five people to graduate with a Masters of Science in computer science and typographic design. One of her professors at RISD was Charles Bigelow, the designer of Lucida and Wingding fonts. He and his partner, Kris Holmes, introduced Twombly into the world of type design. While working for them, she entered her first type design in an international competition, which was sponsored by Morsawa LTD, a Japanese typesetting equipment manufacturer. She ended up getting first place in the Latin text category and it was licensed under the name Mirarae. In 1988 Carol Twombly became a full-time type creator for the Adobe Originals Program and would go on to work for the company for over 11 years. Her fonts created while working for Adobe were heavily inspired by classic letterforms from early Greek inscriptions, around 400 BC and also from William Caslon’s typefaces from the 1700s. In 1994, she received the Charles Peignot award from the Association Typographique Internationale for her contributions to type design. She was the first woman and only the second American to receive this honor. Fonts created by Twombly include: Adobe Caslon, Chaparral, Charlemange, Lithos, Mirarae, Myriad with Robert Slimbach, Nueva, Trajan, and Viva. Her fonts Pepperwood, Rosewood, Zebrawood were part of a project within Adobe to revive American display typefaces in wood type from the 1800s.

Sources:

“Carol Twombly.” Carol Twombly | Adobe Fonts, https://fonts.adobe.com/designers/carol-twombly.

Friedlander , Joel. “Typeface Designer Carol Twombly's Short but Brilliant Career.” The Book Designer, 10 Mar. 2010, https://www.thebookdesigner.com/carol-twombly-an-extraordinary-type-designer/.

“Carol Twombly Fonts - Fonts.com.” Fonts.com, https://www.fonts.com/browse/designers/carol-twombly.

Typefaces. Carol Twombly, http://luc.devroye.org/fonts-26216.html.

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carringtonscreations · 2 years ago

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These are some of my designs for our Type Exercises. I chose the letter S and turned it slightly to the right. I thought it looked sour of like a winding river, so I made the S blue and made the background green so it looks like water cutting through the land. For the two letters, I picked two C's, to represent my initials. I lined them up so they overlapped each other and made a shape that looks like a fancy written E. And E represents my middle initial. For the third art board, I chose the word Grow. I started with the G on the far left and made it significantly smaller than the other letters and as it moves to the right, each letter gets bigger, to show the growth. I decided to make the letters green because when I think of something growing, I think of a plant or grass. The final art board I used two layers of the same bold font for my name to show hierarchy. I wanted this to be the first thing people saw and right below they would see my profession. Finally, at the bottom, I have my contact information which is not in bold unlike the two previous. Each set of information gets smaller in size but the triangle gets bigger, which I thought had a nice balance throughout the art board.

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