My next project in Design III, was a data set. For this assignment, we had to create an info graphic that represented a set or sets of data that related to our personal life. Similar to our first assignment, the data set project required us to examine our personal lives and extract information that we normally may not ever analyze or quantify. After much thought, I decided to examine my cigarette smoking, confident that it would provide substantial and provocative data that I could use to create an info graphic. I began by counting the average cigarettes I have smoked per day starting in 2005. I surprisingly have a good memory for this kind of stuff, so my numbers turned out pretty accurate. My first set of graphs were divided up by year and represented the average number of cigarettes I smoked per day by monthly. The bar graphs were created by burning cigarettes, therefore giving varying heights to the "bars." I then put a color overlay over the cigarettes to color code them by brand. Next, I employed a line graph to show the steep hike in cigarette prices since I have been smoking over the last 5 years. I then tallied up all the cigarettes I had smoked and divided them by 20 to get the total amount of packs. This too was shown in bar graph format. Then using the data of the average pricing over the past five years I was able to calculate approximately how much money I had spent on cigarettes during my lifetime. The totals are 25,360 cigarettes smoked, 1,268 packs smoked, and 7,652.90 dollars spent. I titled the graphic The Tobacco Tally, and the included image is a detail from the title. For this part of the piece, I found about 10 photos of smoke. Like putting a puzzle together, I cut out pieces of the images that I could use to create a single smoke wisp that had the illusion of flowing through the letters and reacting to their structures. This technique was a part of the basis for my thesis proposal.
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