Mississippi Carts at a Glance

 

Nancy and Laura's Meals on Wheels:

This project started out pretty difficult for the two of us. Our schedules were very conflicting and that effected the end product hugely. I first visited the carts by myself, and took some photographs of each cart and took notes on my initial observation of the carts; for example the logo/visual theme, what kind of food, amount of customers etc. After this first visit, I came back the following Saturday with Nancy and we took down most of our information. The theme we chose was how the Food Carts draw in customers visually. What do each one of these carts offer from a customer's stand point. At first this theme seemed like a good idea, and we thought it would be different than some of the other ideas we had on the first day of class that required us to ask the vendors a lot of questions. 

For the first graphs, we decided to do each rough draft separately and than combine what we had come up with. 

Nancy's:

Laura's:

After this first pair, I was absent and Nancy made another Draft:

 

I really wanted to draw out a street sign and hand render an actual food cart picture; Then we thought maybe we could use a rainbow to graph the information but it was too busy and there wasn't much integrity:

None of these were really working so the day before class we got together and Nancy suggested we use balloons instead of rainbows (see above).

We realized that the information we were presenting just wasn't very good. So I went back to the Mississippi food carts again, for a third visit and I got more information. I ended up doing this on a tight time crunch and this is what we ended up turning in:

There is a lot of room for improvement, and upon reflection, this is the type of thing that should have been presented in the first go-round of rough drafts. The bottom half's information is not visual, and the typography needs a lot of work. I am pretty happy with the icons for each cart, although they could be rendered a bit more carefully. Overall, I think in comparison to everyone else's, the information presented is pretty weak, and that is reflected in the design itself.