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It was the start of COVID, and I was stuck doing college remotely for my second year. Social media became my escape from the lack of social interaction. But hearing things like "China virus" really pissed me off, especially since the U.S. President was using it to downplay what was happening, while people were dying all over the world.
I was feeling pretty hopeless, wondering if I could create something that would spark conversations and make people question President Trump’s behavior on Twitter. I wanted to make a peaceful protest piece that would expose the truth behind his tweets, but in a way that was engaging. So, when my Graphic Design 1 professor asked us to create an 11x18-inch infographic using any dataset that fits on tabloid-sized paper, I figured it was the perfect time to do it.
Of course, it was my first time making a one-pager print, let alone an infographic, so I didn't think hard about the restrictions of size.
My brainstorming always starts with the visual and the tone of the storytelling, probably because I used to be a painter. I started sketching and instantly fell in love with the story of Pinocchio, more specifically, using Pinocchio as an analogy to move the entire piece!
Ideas started popping in: "what if the nose is the data"?
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Without any data analysis tools or Adobe Creative Suite experience, Microsoft Excel became my best friend. Fortunately, I was able to download raw CSV files from the Washington Post Fact Checker and Trump Twitter Archive, using basic Excel functions like COUNTIFS and SORT to calculate the data I needed.
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V2
After pulling all-nighters to put together V1, I immediately realized the visualization wasn't working—even I, the creator, still can't read this infographic today.