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  Data Visualization What I see on the " Countries with the largest immigrant population worldwide in 2020" Chart is a list of counties ordered from highest at the top to lowest at bottom of the amount of countries with the largest amount of immigration population. I also see that there are bars for each country and the higher the amount of immigrants each country has the bigger the bar will be for that country. I see that the United States has the highest immigration count and Kuwait has the lowest immigration count. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/05/23/health/covid-death-toll-world.html The way how Denise Lu and Eleanor Lutz presented the death rates during the pandemic was by using a chart that has a lot of countries on separated in High Income, Upper Middle Income and Low Income sections. I also see that each country has a bar that represents the percentage of deaths above normal. This person also used another graph that uses lines instead of bars to represent t

Poverty   Poverty is about not having enough money to meet the basic needs such as access to food, water, clothing and shelter. Many people in face poverty due to unemployment, war and corruption.  One project that I found On Cooper Hewit that aims to help resolve this problem is the Design for the Other 90% which is a project that has engineers, teachers, students and designers who are looking for cost affective ways to increase the access of food, water, education and transportation for those who need them the most. Most of the world population don't have access to food and water and the goal of this project is to help those people.

  What Is Communication Design? Communication Design is a process that focuses on developing the message and aesthetics in media. The skills required for communication designing is have the ability to convey ideas creatively. Creativity skills is the combination of aesthetics, balancing the art, and also giving a lot of attention to details. Some examples of formats in communication design are visual reports, flow charts, process diagrams, roadmaps, videos, prints, presentations, etc. Some examples of communication channels are verbal, non-verbal, and written. each of these communications channels have its strengths and weaknesses and sometimes two communication channels can be used at the same time. 

 What Is Editorial Design? Editorial Design is a technique used by designers to help the reader or costumer understand the page better. Graphic Designers use different types of grids and layouts on a page to help the reader understand better and smoothly. Some key elements required for editorial design is consistency, readability, balance and repetition. Otl Aicher's Isny What I see in this book is a lot of drawings in black and white that is based on a small town  of Isny im Allgäu. The types of drawings I saw on the book is an animals, bikes, people and a glass of beer. The way how this author laid out his drawings on the book is by adding lots of small squares on each page with drawings in them.  This Is Me, Full Stop by Here Design The goal of this book was to harness the beautiful design to explore the secret life of punctuation marks. what I see in this book is that it starts of with a white dot on a dark background and then on the next page I see a bunch of dark circles with

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