Info Graphic Sketch

This is a rough sketch of the Info Graphic that is designed at bottom on "The War on Marriage."

Product Illustration

This product illustration of Goobers was done completely in Adobe Illustrator cs6.

The Painted Ballerina explanation

This piece was done in the style of John Steuart Curry. I liked the exaggerated movement and color in his paintings. I chose this painting because of the depths of colors in his wind around the legs of his subjects. I chose a portrait of a ballerina to accurately display the “girl to woman to wife/czar” feeling that is portrayed in the poem “I am wife” by Emily Dickinson. Dickinson was commenting on how society puts labels on women, and they get stuck somewhere in between their own nature and society’s rules.

I took a photograph as part of a documentary on The Festival Ballet troupe, depicting the struggles and triumphs of a ballet company. I used it as a reference for this illustration. This woman’s face can be interpreted in so many ways, but her thoughts will always be mysterious. Her androgynous pose, angular face, deep-seated in shadow convey the thoughtfully sad emotion in Dickinson’s poem.

Emily Dickinson, “I’m Wife”

I'm "wife" -- I've finished that --

That other state --

I'm Czar -- I'm "Woman" now --

It's safer so --

How odd the Girl's life looks

Behind this soft Eclipse --

I think that Earth feels so

To folks in Heaven -- now --

This being comfort -- then

That other kind -- was pain --

But why compare?

I'm "Wife"! Stop there!

-Kaitlyn Breidenbach

Literary Illustration

Info Graphic Explanation

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December 11^th 2012

Info Graphic on “The War on Marriage”

I chose to do this topic because I am passionate about the institution of marriage and how is affects the American society as a whole, socially, economically, and emotionally. I feel that people do not know the facts about marriage and divorce or what exactly in causing divorce in today’s society.

In my info graphic I chose to make a broken “ring” as the main graphic, to show a ‘broken vow’ in a way. I also chose to just put my data (percentages/taglines) in the circle, and have them connected to the information around the ring through colored lines. I did my infographic this way to give the information a “chaotic-cycle” feel.  I chose to put Mark 10:9 in the center, as that verse in central to the biblical marriage covenant, although these facts are not strictly biblical, nor from biblical sources.

My information on divorce, (40% increase of therapists, 50% of 24-30 year olds, etc.) came from the national marriage project. This organization publishes a book every year about the “state of the union” of marriage represented strictly in facts that are current, that year. The facts are abundant on the downloadable .pdfs, and I had a lot of narrowing down to get it right.

My information on marriage and dating came from mostly op-ed pieces (long term research written in newspaper article form.) from these news sources: CNN, TIME, ABC, Shape Magazine,  Good Women, and the Dr. Phil website.  Each was a calculated statistic that was compared thoroughly to other statistics. Dates of information were considered in picking out different information to use, since some information is not current. 

I enjoyed doing the project, and I am hoping that other people will see the urgency in the War on Marriage after reading through my info graphic.

-Kaitlyn Becker Breidenbach

The War on Marriage InfoGraphic