Infographic Reflection

   As you can tell, the infographic assignment was close to my heart. I had jokingly responded to Cicily's comment about making hers on her English Bull dog with a quip about  my pitbull... but in the end I couldn't get the idea out of my head and the more I thought about it the more perfect it seemed. I incuded a pre-infrographic collage of my puppy, Badger, just to show that the ad was true! I really love the breed of dog so I felt compelled to speak for them in this case. 

   I was conflicted at first on whether or not to make it an Adopt-a-Pit spiel or something that just proved wrong the many myths surrounding the breed, or something simply educational. In the end, I tried to make a mix of all three, which I think sort of convoluted the graphic in a small way. I made a list of some of the things I really wanted people to know-- like the different kinds of pitbulls that make up the breed, but I also wanted people to be able to relate to the ad if they still didn't care for pits. The most common anti-pitbull argument is that pitbulls are violent and aggressive animals, which could not be more false (they are the most cuddly breed too but no one bothers to acknowledge that. They have up to thirteen different dogs categorized as a Pits which make them statistically easy to blame), so I wanted to go about proving this 'wrong' and that's why I included the sidebar on ridiculous things that would kill you first before a Pitbull became a threat to your life. I thought the formatting on this section was understandable, but Doug mentioned that it seemed broken up for the readers eye and after this was pointed out I can understand how that would be the case. 

  I'd never made an infographic before, and there are so many online resources that really made it a breeze, though formatting the actual aesthetics and making decisions on where to put text and how much, when to choose between image and text, how to balance the overall result, were all decisions that are very similar to those made in the writing process-- or even more complex! I really enjoyed this assignment and am happy overall with the work I did.