Artwork needed for Food Security Data
Budget: $10 – $30 USD
Creative freedom allowed when discussed in the dear data style - front image only, symbols and on the back will have the key/legend what the symbols mean/how the data is represented. One of the ideas I had on How to Map the Data
Leaf Representation:
Healthy, Full Leaves: Represent food-secure households (86.5%).
Withered or Fragmented Leaves: Represent food-insecure households (13.5%).
Within these, you can differentiate further:
Slightly Withered Leaves: Indicate households experiencing intermittent food insecurity.
Severely Withered or Broken Leaves: Symbolize households with very low food security (5.1% overall).
Leaf Length & Size Variation:
Use longer, robust leaves to symbolize full, healthy food security.
Shorter or partially “eaten away” leaves can denote the loss or instability of food access.
Color Palette:
Vibrant Greens: For households with consistent access to food.
Muted, Faded Greens, Oranges, or Browns: For those facing food insecurity.
Consider using a gradient where the saturation diminishes as food security decreases.
Additional Layers – Hands & Diversity:
Abstract Hand Outlines: Incorporate subtle, soft outlines or silhouettes of hands wrapping around or gently cradling clusters of leaves.
Different Skin-Tone Accents: These hands or borders around the leaves can be rendered in various skin-tone hues, symbolizing the racial and ethnic diversity within the affected populations.
The hands can be lightly overlaid on the pattern or integrated as framing elements in the margins or central focus of the design.
Representing Households with Children or Single Families:
Special Leaf Marks: For instance, add a small, simple icon (like a tiny bud or a smaller leaf) attached to certain leaves to indicate households with children.
Varying Leaf Clusters: You could cluster some leaves together to represent family units, and single, isolated leaves for single-parent households.
Examples of artwork done: http://www.dear-data.com/all
https://kairos.technorhetoric.net/25.1/praxis/sorapure-fauni/gallery.html
Leaf Representation:
Healthy, Full Leaves: Represent food-secure households (86.5%).
Withered or Fragmented Leaves: Represent food-insecure households (13.5%).
Within these, you can differentiate further:
Slightly Withered Leaves: Indicate households experiencing intermittent food insecurity.
Severely Withered or Broken Leaves: Symbolize households with very low food security (5.1% overall).
Leaf Length & Size Variation:
Use longer, robust leaves to symbolize full, healthy food security.
Shorter or partially “eaten away” leaves can denote the loss or instability of food access.
Color Palette:
Vibrant Greens: For households with consistent access to food.
Muted, Faded Greens, Oranges, or Browns: For those facing food insecurity.
Consider using a gradient where the saturation diminishes as food security decreases.
Additional Layers – Hands & Diversity:
Abstract Hand Outlines: Incorporate subtle, soft outlines or silhouettes of hands wrapping around or gently cradling clusters of leaves.
Different Skin-Tone Accents: These hands or borders around the leaves can be rendered in various skin-tone hues, symbolizing the racial and ethnic diversity within the affected populations.
The hands can be lightly overlaid on the pattern or integrated as framing elements in the margins or central focus of the design.
Representing Households with Children or Single Families:
Special Leaf Marks: For instance, add a small, simple icon (like a tiny bud or a smaller leaf) attached to certain leaves to indicate households with children.
Varying Leaf Clusters: You could cluster some leaves together to represent family units, and single, isolated leaves for single-parent households.
Examples of artwork done: http://www.dear-data.com/all
https://kairos.technorhetoric.net/25.1/praxis/sorapure-fauni/gallery.html