China's Toxic Sky
China’s rapid industrialisation is causing major impacts on the population’s health and the natural environment. This is continuing to be a growing problem with people becoming wealthier, consuming more and buying cars. Despite the small efforts made in China, this issue has not been resolved and sets a negative hindrance to the country. Reports of China’s poor air quality peaked above the measurable air quality index scale in January 2013, the smog was so bad it could be seen from space. Reading this was a catalyst to push investigation
and exploration for detailed information on the topic.
Access to gain official data on air pollution in China is challenging and limited. China restricts national data that presents a negative trend available to be accessed for the public, with this in mind; information collected was carefully considered and derived from a range of articles and reports from western sites. With the information,
it was appropriate to illustrate and create diagrams to help clarify the statistics on the issue. I decided
to communicate my message through a poster to create an impact on a viewer to encourage speculation
and inform awareness of China’s on-going air pollution problem.
Poster
The Campaign
User Involvement
The use of tracing paper connotes the quality of the air with it's murky aesthetic to the paper. Layering the information allows the user to interact and see a clearer comparison of the statistics. The separation of red on one sheet represents the negative data.
