Designing a series of compelling infographics to analyse one of the world’s biggest ocean powers and help resolve the ocean crisis before it is too late.
Dialogue Earth
Illuminating critical global conservation issues in a compelling, lively, and multi-lingual fashion.
Joe Coroneo-Seaman Producer at Dialogue Earth
Ed's design work adds a great deal of value to our reporting. His clean and attractive graphics have also helped us to reach new readers through our social media channels.
The Brief
- Dialogue Earth support the global sustainability movement with impactful environmental journalism, using local voices and knowledge to build trust and foster cooperation.
- They use powerful data within their reporting, to analyse and illuminate the most critical conservation issues of our time.
- I was brought onboard to create a series of compelling graphics to accompany their articles, published across their website and social channels.
The Idea
- I started by mapping out the different ways of communicating the information: from charts to diagrams, illustrations to icons.
- I felt it important to bring a light and playful approach to the designs. I incorporated ocean-themed flourishes and visual puns to balance out the heaviness of the conservation issues.
- I created everything to fit within Dialogue Earth's brand guidelines, which were designed by my talented brother Joe Harrison.
- We translate all of the graphics to Chinese (and other languages) so they could be shared, read and understood by a wider readership.
The Outcome
- I exported all of the artwork into lightweight files to optimise website loading time, alongside a series of graphics catered for various social media channels.
- Whether knowledgeable about the ocean crisis, or looking to learn more about these issues, the graphics made it easier to digest and understand the ocean conservation reports.
- The Dialogue Earth metrics have shown my graphics continue to help them to reach and engage with new readers and grow their social media audience.
Visualising the problem
Dialogue Earth (previously China Dialogue) analyse and illuminate the most critical conservation issues of our time. I have been brought onboard to create the ocean-themed graphics for their reporting, incorporating flourishes and visual puns to balance out the heaviness of some of the topics.
An ocean of solutions
Dialogue Earth use their reporting to highlight solutions to the ocean crises as well as the problems. It is always a joy creating the illustrations, charts, maps and icons to enhance their compelling articles and make the issues easier to understand.
Compelling, lively, and multi-lingual
All of the graphics are created within Dialogue Earth's brand guidelines (designed by my talented brother Joe and I finish every project by working with the team to translate the graphics to Chinese so that they can be read and shared by their global readership.
