Surveillance+Cameras+in+Toronto

=Re:focus=

As it states on my infograph:
 * re:focus** is an interactive, informational graph that locates the intersection of rotating traffic control cameras at red lights in the Greater Toronto Area. It features 3 levels of information (from right to left on the infograph):

1. The street names of the intersection 2. The location of the intersection 3. The intersection plotted on a map of Toronto

Research
When researching surveillance in Toronto, I came across a lot of information such as
 * whether or not people found surveillance cameras affective
 * the number of cameras a city is going to install
 * topics that were very debatable (such as how surveillance invades privacy)

I found this information very vague and very hard to visually explain in an infograph especially one that is interactive with a viewer. Finally, I choose to plot out something that, I thought, was very "dry" to try to make it more interesting with a sense of **relationship**. By relationship, I mean how one information relates to another and thus I came up with a map-like graph that plotted out 3 levels of information (as stated above).

Design
As for the design, I felt that keeping the dark, mysterious ambiance from project 2 was difficult because this project is very information heavy and I feel that this information should be presented in a clear manner. With that in mind, I stuck to a very solid one-colour design. I wanted to work with circles (again) because I felt that cameras can really be defined by a simple shape like a circle. If I had used a square, it would give a different emotion. I wanted to have a navigation system of a wheel that rotated to make it look like it was very machine-like and that it was focusing on something, or taking a picture. To get this feeling, I also added a shutter effect to the middle circle as well as camera lines (to further emphasize the fact that it //is// taking a picture).

The right half of the design features a map of Toronto that locates all of the cameras. There is a button, at the bottom, to turn it on and off. This feature also shows the **relationship** between each camera intersection which I think is very important so the viewer can see the proportional distance between each one. When this button is turned on, you can rollover the blue dots to find the street names of the intersection.

To the upper right of the infograph are 3 buttons that show extra information: 1. What is the infograph and how to navigate around it 2. Some interesting pros and cons about the cameras 3. Where to find more information and where to find the article that I based by design on

Developing my ideas
These are quick notes on the TTC and how they are installing 11,034 more cameras in Toronto compared to other cities. [|manwaiw_interactivity5.jpg]

More quick sketches of ideas and surveillance information around the world [|manwaiw_interactivity1.jpg]

More visual idea development (more focused on circles and pie charts) [|manwaiw_interactivity2.jpg]

More sketches using different shapes and the first stages of development of my final design [|manwaiw_interactivity3.jpg]

development of my final design [|manwaiw_interactivity4.jpg]







Final design