Exercise 4: Mars Bar
Editorial curiosity and intent
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Editorial curiosity and intent
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[Let’s pretend] I am the editor of a confectionary magazine, “Hot Chocolates” and I am inviting talented designers to pitch ideas for an infographic that will visually explore different interesting aspects about the Mars Bar. Working in teams I want you to come up with sketched proposals that will show me your ideas for the editorial contents, the chart selections and the general layout for a design for a 2-page printed infographic, with explanations about how this could also be translated into a suitable solution for a web-based version.
Editorial Curiosities
1. There is no data provided, use your imagination about what data would/could exist about the Mars Bar, referring to wrapper to instigate ideas –you can assume that any data you might wish to use would exist or would be obtainable.
2. Spend time writing down as many different editorial ideas as possible, with different interesting angles of analysis.
Editorial Intent
3. From your list of ideas, choose five distinct angles of analysis. Your choices should EITHER be five distinct angles for which you will using one chart from each of the five CHRTS families OR you can use five charts from any CHRTS families but there should be an shared curiosity ‘theme’ that binds together the different angles – eg. about sustainability, enjoyment, sales etc.
Sketching and publishing
4. Using pens/paper or digital apps, sketch your proposal thinking carefully about the page layout, the hierarchy of what contents would be shown first vs. last, which would be biggest and smallest. For your charts just sketch them with made up values to illustrate your ideas.
5. Using Miro, publish your proposals
Onze brainstorm is op bovenstaande afbeelding ietwat slecht te lezen dus bij deze nogmaals onze ideeën hieronder, of hier te bekijken in het originele document.
In which tv-series are the Mars bars explicitly shown?
Or mentioned?
How many Mars wrappers would be needed to cover something like.. the Earth vs other planets?
Chart of the nutritional values in a Mars bar
How many Mars bars are sold over the years (popular seasons to be shown maybe?)
How many bars has Mars sold in total/per country/x?
How many times/when is a Mars bar mentioned in rap lyrics? (wRAPPERS)
How many Mars wrappers are needed to cover Mars?
How many Mars have been eaten on Mars?
How many Mars bars are sold, compared to other candy brands?
How many mars bars are catered at weddings yearly?
Which are the most rare Mars bars?
How rich is the CEO of Mars, in Mars bars? (Each mars = x amount of money)
What are the prices per Mars bar per country ? (beetje zoals de Big Mac index)
What is the biggest Mars bar known to record? (Guiness World Record book?)
How meltable is a Mars bar?
How quick can we eat a Mars bar (bar chart, for each team member 1 chart?) → or: splitten in hoelang je erover doet om die wrapper eraf te halen, en het eten zelf → Gantt Chart
How many Mars bars a day to reach the calorific goal of a day. + nutrition
How quick can we eat enough calories by only eating Mars? (Based on previous 2 questions)
