So I had my first crack at creating an infographic

[PoshTiger]

What do you guys think - it took just over a day to complete from start to finish - all created with vectors from graphicriver.net.

https://cloudworks.co.uk/about-us/our-blog/the-future-of-cloud-computing-infographic

 

[ian]

Looks very nice mate; no wonder you've been so busy of late.

 

[jasman]

Looks nice. But what do you mean by "By 2020 there will be 5200gb for every person on Earth"? I can't imagine a typical person having anything like that amount of data (especially if we include all the babies/ small children, people in the 3rd world etc). Or do you mean the entire quantity of digital data across all machines in the world divided by the number of people in the world?

 

[Systreg]

Why is everything in capitals?

 

[PoshTiger]

This was actually a study completed in 2012 - there will be an estimated 20 zettabytes (or 40 trillion gigabytes) worth of data in the cloud.

This data includes the obvious (youtube videos etc) but also from things like highway tolls, cash machine security, security footage from airports etc.. and probably multiple copies of each.

It is of course an average for each person though and it is only an estimate.

 

[PoshTiger]

Why is everything in capitals?

Because the typeface is bebas, and that only has caps.

A lot of infographics are capitols only, so I went with the flow. I tried another with mixed case Avenir, but it doesn't look as authoritative.

 

[PoshTiger]

Looks very nice mate; no wonder you've been so busy of late.

thanks mate - it's my first go at creating some nice content for a website, instead of bought articles so I'm hoping I'll get some good links from it.

It's already been shared a few times on Linkedin and FB so fingers crossed.

 

[Murray]

I don't really understand the information to know if it's the best lay out to assimilate it

Just visually you've done a very nice job with it though.

 

[Skinner]

I don't think its meaning each person will have 5.2tb, I think its the same deal as saying there are 4 sheep for every person in new zealand, pretty sure every person doesn't have 4 sheep.

I have over 16tb today and I'm about add another 8tb, so I have 3 peoples worth soon to go to nearly 5 peoples worth.

Edit: I didn't see PT's reply before I posted, he's clarified its global average.

Looks nice. But what do you mean by "By 2020 there will be 5200gb for every person on Earth"? I can't imagine a typical person having anything like that amount of data (especially if we include all the babies/ small children, people in the 3rd world etc). Or do you mean the entire quantity of digital data across all machines in the world divided by the number of people in the world?

 

[WealdDomains]

Hi. It looks clean and professional. I hope these comments help :

- too many words in the clouds at the top
- the 2017 entry is in the wrong order chronologically
- white on pale blue in the two big circles is hard to read
- reduce the dark centre of the two big circles to give more room and enable a bigger font size for the important bits : the answers
- add a percent sign to the 22.8 on the balloon : I assumed it was an amount
- the bottom circles are wasted - all the same size and no shading, regardless of value or type : maybe include a pie chart shading in the circles for the four that are percentages
- maybe I'm mistaken, but I'm a bit surprised to see a vendor included alongside three independent research houses : it may be worth sticking with neutral sources

Regards,
David

 

[PoshTiger]

Thanks for the feedback, I'll fix some - but not others.

The 2017 being in the wrong order - I didn't spot that, so thanks.

I've not really got time to do any large scale re-designs so I'll consider the rest for my next one but I'll probably leave them unchanged for this.

I chose a colour scheme and have stuck to it - any tried to obey the laws of typography and not have more than three different font sizes, so I had to have that amount of text in the bubbles and I was also limited in the light blue for the text on the circles.

The reason why I didn't make the filled circles smaller was that there's an arc effect on the text so it sits correctly, but if you have more than 2 lines - it warps the text too much and makes the outside of the arc very large (as you can see in the left circle).

thanks anyway..

Hi. It looks clean and professional. I hope these comments help :

- too many words in the clouds at the top
- the 2017 entry is in the wrong order chronologically
- white on pale blue in the two big circles is hard to read
- reduce the dark centre of the two big circles to give more room and enable a bigger font size for the important bits : the answers
- add a percent sign to the 22.8 on the balloon : I assumed it was an amount
- the bottom circles are wasted - all the same size and no shading, regardless of value or type : maybe include a pie chart shading in the circles for the four that are percentages
- maybe I'm mistaken, but I'm a bit surprised to see a vendor included alongside three independent research houses : it may be worth sticking with neutral sources

Regards,
David

 

[bonusmedia]

Looks pro. I find the facts and figures at the bottom are very convincing. It made me think I should be in the cloud. To be honest I'm not quite sure what that actually entails beyond having Dropbox and Skype

 

[accelerator]

Good effort.

I looked for the link to CloudWorks Twitter on your page but it doesn't work.

Rgds

 

[max99x]

looks v nice, be interesting see if it gets used much on sites. My initial thoughts from my own experience with infographics as a method for getting media/links etc is that it isn't "shocking" or without sounding rude "interesting" enough to share.. hope I'm wrong though of course as it may well share well on more related sites..