Headlines with pictograms

Well here’s the first cou­ple of exper­i­ments. The head­line was taken from the Guardian news­pa­per on beer con­sump­tion in the UK. Only the sec­ond part of the head­line was used as it had some really great words in it that made for some excel­lent pictograms.

“Do we think we’ve had enough? Beer sales plunge as Britons stay at home” — The Guardian

The first exper­i­ment was to cre­ate clear, sim­ple, dis­tin­guish­able pic­tograms that replaced the words. The words ‘as’ and ‘at’ were omit­ted as they were unnec­es­sary to the read­abil­ity of the headline.

As a sec­ond exper­i­ment, the out­lined images were tex­tured with pho­to­graphic tex­tures to enhance the sym­bols. I think doing this really makes them jump off the page.

So those were my first exper­i­ments with info­graph­ics. All together it took around 12 hours or so to do, with cre­at­ing the tem­plates for future exper­i­ments and eas­ing myself back into Illus­tra­tor after a year of absence tak­ing up about a quar­ter. A lit­tle more prac­tice and I should have no trou­ble halv­ing that time. At 1280x1024 they are pretty much wall­pa­per size, if you’re so inclined. Enjoy.

Also there’s a lit­tle more of the theme com­ing into play here and there. I’d appre­ci­ate it if you let me know what you think.