i think you are measuring it with the marketing yardstick. while all your objections may hold good, please remember, we are not selling a product and attempt to attract attention. this is meant to be educational - and people are expected to read to learn. frankly, cannot make everyone happy. next someone will chip in and say that what is the use of all those names? or something else like that.
having spent years on art and design as a hobby, (which may make me an armchair critic at any rate) my take is that it beauty is in the eyes of the beholder. you can teach someone to learn a skill or technique, but art and creativity is something you cannot teach. i have no hesitation to accept and i frankly admit that i am not an artist nor do i have the talent - so there is no point in cribbing about it. (btw, i have said it many times to my old friends, abu nibras and some others).
Let me know what you think.
i think, if you want to improve on it, use that data and make one yourself. it would be nice to have good infographics.
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trying to cram a lot of information in one sheet was itself a challenge. so the point of information overload is a matter of personal preference. you can take away all of that and have pretty pictures that are nice to look at - try '
the sacred trusts' at nearly $500.
If this is meant to be displayed in a house or masjid, then who will stand long enough to read all of it? People have very short attention spans these days.
of course. people want to become mujtahids without reading a single book. people ought to be ashamed of themselves if they cannot stand to read AT LEAST a poster (that is if they have never read a sirat book in their life. some people read twenty voluminious books on seerat mubarakah and are still not satisfied. but for the love of goodness, at least read this poster if you don't have time to read a proper seerat book.)
Why not take one aspect, like the ancestors portion, and expand it out into a full size image?
actually, this is the first infographic in a series of many, in sha'Allah. we will see more. the point of this infographic WAS info overload.
The chosen colors are fine but maybe try to bring some consistency. For example - the blessed names could all be in one specific color
look again.
People like images so possibly modify the images (Nalayn Pak, Green Dome, etc.) to make them bigger and stand out
firstly, there are some technical issues. the images i have used are copyright free and one of them is modified at a size where copyright should not be an issue. if you want eye candy - go ahead acquire rights to images and make a collage. that was not my objective.
Organization and Arraignment - there's no chronological order if a person were to read it from left to right, top to bottom.
perhaps you should read again.
For example, I'm not seeing any consistency with the colors in the texts.
i must apologise. this is the outcome of someone who attempts his hand at 'art' without learning basics.
wa's salam.
