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Corporate achievements are a necessary evil especially if you’re getting your funds and resources from donors, investors, etc. One of the ways to showcase this is usually through a glossy\/sexy annual report. For 2010-2011, UNISDR, the UN’s office for disaster risk reduction<\/a>, wanted to highlight it’s main accomplishments in a visual way. In addition to developing an infographic I wanted to conceptualize and visualize the whole idea of disaster risk reduction – something that is generally difficult to visualize since there’s a variety of moving parts (i.e. government leadership, private sector business continuity plans, infrastructure development, urban planning, etc.).<\/p>\n Originally, the idea was to have a map highlighting a few key stats and to show the UNISDR’s global reach. But as the idea came together, it was more and more difficult to capture everything in a map. Maps are great for 2-3 key data sets, but when there are different, and often at times unrelated data, they are not that useful to tell a story. Instead, we boiled down the raw data to just key facts and figures which were easier to represent with iconography and symbols. Keeping in mind that this was going to be a graphic to introduce people to UNISDR’s work, it had to be simple and minimalist.<\/p>\n The one thing I tried to do is to have a large optic that can draw people into the infographic and details. Since I had pretty free creative direction, I wanted to visualize the “DRR” concept. One of the typical symbols I use to represent disasters is the OCHA humanitarian symbol set (the 2012 version was released on the Noun Project)<\/a>. Since DRR isn’t focus on disasters, but more on how development actually has a impact on our risks to disasters, the idea was to put ‘disasters’ in context – meaning that disasters don’t happen in isolation, but a lot of things come into play that creates a disaster. For example, when a earthquake hits, it’s not the earthquake that kills people, but the fact that buildings collapse, fires start, etc. It’s a risk that we face and have a responsibility for everyday. So this context of risk was what I wanted to visualize. And since gambling and probability is typically represented by dice, it just clicked. What do you think?<\/p>\n The infographic was developed as a stand alone poster (download it here<\/a>) – and parts of it was incorporated into the UNISDR annual report (download it here)<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Corporate achievements are a necessary evil especially if you’re getting your funds and resources from donors, investors, etc. One of the ways to showcase this is usually through a glossy\/sexy annual report. For 2010-2011, UNISDR, the UN’s office for disaster risk reduction, wanted to highlight it’s main accomplishments in a visual way. In addition to … Continue reading Corporate achievements for 2010-2011<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2829,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[268],"tags":[231,91,152,134,92],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2828"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2828"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2834,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2828\/revisions\/2834"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}