Information Design Final Project: Animated Infographics
5.2.2024 - 25.3.2024 / Week 1-Week7
Wang Zilong (0361141)
Bachelor of Design (Hons) in Creative Media
Final project
Introduction
Exercise 1&2
Project 1
Final Project
Research the given topic in your group and break down the information into parts - narrative and visualization to educate the viewers about the issue. Use questions ‘What, why, where, when, who, and how’ into the building of your narrative before transferring the information onto your storyboard. Use relevant visuals to create associations of information to the infographics. Refer to the chart here to decide how to visualize.
Expected outcomes are as below
1.An animated infographic informing the audience about a given topic (min 1.5 - max 3 min video)
2.Must include some form of data/statistics.
3.Must use the questioning technique and provide answers.
Due to the addition of new team members, our assignment will have two versions and for my part is mainly presentation. The completed division was shown inside the slide.
Research
The topic is about the journey of the bottle of water so it would be divided into few parts
Water plant site selection
In order to reduce investment costs and facilitate and speed up production, mineral water manufacturers generally build factories near water sources. This can not only reduce pipeline laying and mining costs, but also reduce the risk of contamination during water circulation.
Empty bucket processing
Bottled water is not like bottled water. The empty barrels of bottled water generally need to be recycled and reused. However, due to epidemic prevention and control reasons, many companies have also launched disposable barrels of bottled water with larger capacity in response to market demand. , the capacity ranges from 12L to 15L, which is a bit off topic. Let’s continue talking about the production of bottled water. The manufacturer of empty barrels of bottled water first recycles the empty barrels to the factory, and manually inspects whether there is any debris in the barrel. If there is any debris, the empty barrels will be picked out for special cleaning, and then the empty barrels will be placed on the transfer belt one by one. A machine is used to remove the caps, and then the empty barrels are cleaned externally. After cleaning, a light inspection is performed to verify whether the empty barrels are qualified. The qualified empty barrels will continue to be circulated for the next step - multiple internal disinfection and flushing processes, and the disinfection process I won’t go into details here. There will be another issue later that will specifically talk about the empty barrel cleaning process of Yili natural mineral water bottled water.
Production Process
Okay, after talking about empty barrels, let’s talk about the production process of water. Generally, the mainstream of bottled water is mineral water, purified water (distilled water), etc. Let’s have a rough understanding of the water treatment processes of various types of water.
Mineral water production process
First, let’s talk about the best quality of drinking water—natural mineral water. Natural mineral water can be canned with simple filtration because of its high-quality water source, no pollution, and no impurities. The mineral water treatment process is : water intake from well → water storage in pool → PP filtration → pes filtration → ozone disinfection → canning → standing storage (ozone decomposition) → delivery.
Pure water production process
Next, let’s talk about purified water, which currently has the largest market share in China’s drinking water industry. Purified water has no special requirements for its water source and is generally canned after municipal tap water treatment, but it needs to undergo extensive treatment. RO reverse osmosis filtration: municipal tap water → sand filtration → precision filtration → precision filtration → reverse osmosis filtration → ozone disinfection → canning → standing storage (ozone decomposition) → delivery
Manuscript
After the process for the research and the manuscript much be prepared, so I summarize the data which I collected at the research. I mainly take the information in China as reference.
water quality
People tend to assume that bottled water is clean, safe, and healthy, and advertising conveys this message to consumers. But this is not the case for all bottled water. Many bottled water products have failed in routine monitoring by regulatory authorities. In the food safety supervision and sampling inspection conducted by the State Food and Drug Administration in the first quarter of 2015, 407 beverage samples were found to have quality problems, of which nearly 400 were packaged drinking water (bottles/barrels) aquatic products. Unqualified indicators involve bacteria, mold, residual chlorine, etc. 1 This is nothing new. In 2012, Hunan Province reported a 60% failure rate in a sampling inspection of bottled water, while Henan Province reported a 37.5% failure rate in bottled water sampling inspections. 2 Generally speaking, consumers tend to believe that products provided by big brands will have better water quality, but there are exceptions. Well-known international and domestic brands such as Robust, Wahaha, C'estbon, and Nestlé also occasionally appear on the unqualified list. In a random inspection conducted by the Beijing Food and Drug Administration in September 2014, the total number of bacterial colonies in C’estbon’s bottled purified drinking water was found to exceed the standard by 1,450 times, and the total number of bacterial colonies in Wahaha’s bottled purified drinking water exceeded the standard by 8 times. 3 In addition to quality issues, some products are not even worthy of their reputation. During random inspections, some bottled water products labeled as "mineral water" failed to meet key mineral indicators and "interface indicators," which means they are not true "mineral water." 4 It may be difficult for ordinary consumers to distinguish the differences between "natural mineral water", "mountain spring water" and "mineral water", let alone new concepts such as Wahaha's "oxygen-enriched water" and Nongfu Spring's "baby water". The "National Food Safety Standard for Packaged Drinking Water" (GB19298-2014), which was implemented on May 24, 2015, is expected to rectify the problems of false marketing and confusing naming of bottles. In the future, bottled water brands will no longer be able to name their products with the above fancy names as they please, and packaged drinking water products will be strictly classified as drinking purified water and other drinking water. The new regulations on standardized naming will be implemented on January 1, 2016. The new standards set physical, chemical and microbiological indicators for packaged drinking water, but mineral water has other regulations.
water production
The rapid development of the bottled water market has also given rise to imitation products. The so-called "fake water" refers to bottled water from illegal small workshops without formal production licenses and disinfection conditions. The water source may be illegally mined well water or tap water without further treatment. Due to the lack of necessary water source protection and testing measures, poor disinfection conditions or no disinfection, the water quality of these "fake water" cannot be guaranteed, and the health risks cannot be assessed. The packaging of these low-quality water may be plastic barrels that have been eliminated by big brands, or they may be inferior plastic barrels produced by the same brand. The use of these containers to package drinking water violates relevant food safety standards. Drinking this water may also pose health risks.
mineral water price
It is estimated that each person drinks 2 liters of water per day. Drinking bottled water will cost at least 800 yuan per person per year; bottled water is more expensive, at least 1,500 yuan. For a typical family of three, the cost of drinking bottled water is about 2,400 yuan to 4,500 yuan per year. 6. If you choose high-end mineral water, such as glacier water and volcanic spring, the cost will be 5 to 10 times higher, or even more. For reference, according to data from the National Bureau of Statistics, in the first half of 2015, the average income of urban residents in China was less than 11,000 yuan. This means that if you only drink bottled or barreled water, you're spending on drinking water will account for 7% or 14% of your personal income, let alone high-end mineral water. How much does it cost to drink tap water? Even if you live in Beijing, the annual cost per person is only 3.5 yuan. 7 Compared to bottled water, drinking tap water is almost free. Why spend thousands on bottled water when you can get clean drinking water from your pipe for almost free? What's more, the quality of the bottled water you spend money to buy is actually difficult to guarantee, and it may even be filled after treatment of tap water. Although the quality of tap water in some cities has not been fully guaranteed, there are some less expensive options before consumers: such as using household water purification equipment or carrying water bottles to drink water from public drinking fountains. In this way, not only money is saved, but also the huge water footprint, energy footprint and plastic waste consumed in bottled water production.
water effect
Behind the clean, pure and natural bottled water products promoted by the brand, there is a heavy water footprint and carbon footprint. Although Chinese and foreign researchers have different conclusions on the footprint density of bottled water, one thing is clear: bottled water has a high cost, which is not only reflected in money. Based on the water efficiency of its seven North American member units and an industry organization, the International Bottled Water Association (IBWA) proposed relatively low water consumption benchmark parameters, that is, only 1.32 liters of water are consumed for every 1 liter of bottled water produced. However, this result only calculates "water consumption for production equipment, including water consumption for aquatic products and equipment production (e.g., water treatment, cleaning, maintenance)." In the industry standard "Beverage Manufacturing Water Intake Quota QB/T2931-2008" implemented on July 1, 2008, the National Development and Reform Commission delineated a water intake baseline for the beverage industry. Depending on the production level and recycling rate, the water intake quota for producing 1 ton of bottled water is 1.6 to 3.74 cubic meters. The energy consumption limit set by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology in the industry standard "Comprehensive Energy Consumption Limit for Beverage Manufacturing QB/T4069-2010" is 0.002 to 0.018 kg of standard coal/liter. In other words, the electricity consumption for producing 1 liter of bottled water is 0.01 to 0.15 kWh. 8 Actual energy consumption is affected by many factors, such as whether to make your own plastic bottles. It should also be noted that only energy consumption in the production process is calculated here. The Pacific Research Institute, launched by Peter Gleick, an academician of the National Academy of Sciences, estimates that a total of 3 liters of water and about 1/4 bottle of crude oil are consumed to produce 1 liter of bottled water. In 2009, Gleick & Cooley released another study stating that it takes 5.6 to 10.2 megajoules of energy to produce 1 liter of bottled water. 9 This is equivalent to 1.56 to 2.83 kWh of electricity. 10 Among them, the energy consumed in transportation and manufacturing plastics accounts for 96% of the total energy consumption, while the energy consumption of all other links, including water treatment, filling, refrigeration, etc., adds up to only 4%. Here, we use the water withdrawal limit set by the National Development and Reform Commission to evaluate bottled water consumption. As for energy consumption, in order to obtain more comprehensive information, we refer to the research of the Pacific Institute and Peter Gleick.
The part my groupmate responsible for:
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Voice and soundtrack for the first crew member.
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Voice and soundtrack for the second crew member.
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The first version
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Feedback
week 6
In the first few assignments, I have a greater understanding of the ability to integrate knowledge, learned how to use materials, and can use LATCH in every work.
Reflection
After a semester of study, I realized that the meaning of information design is to understand the essence of knowledge and use it scientifically to avoid wasting time by collecting too much knowledge. When making videos, I can more intuitively feel what a person who collects information should do. Get information through videos and interpret it in a designer’s way
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