Visual+Literacy

The first thing I notice about the table is the pictures, which immediately draws my attention to the table. The title “Over protein” and the pictures make me think about an over consumption of meat. Once I start reading the graph I realize it is talking about Americans over consumption of meat and it is disturbing. The overall design I really like and it fallows PAT model pretty well. The contrast of the table is great everything is clearly separate. I also really like the use of colors for differentiating information as well as decorating the information. The use of rectangles to make the table is well done and it organizes the information neatly in each rectangle. Alignment of the text is great however I do not like the alignment of the pictures it is not clearly defined. The proximity of the information is well organized which made it easy for me to read and remember the information, but again the proximity of the picture is confusing at first because it is hard to tell which information they belong to. The last thing I noticed was the spacing used with the text, the title of three boxes is bold and there is no space between the title and the paragraph but one of the titles has a space between the title and paragraph which I thought was a little weird and uniformed for the table. Overall I really like the table with the visuals; I think it draws in the viewer’s attention in and has a good point. There are only a few things I would do to change the table. First I would play around with the title and pictures to try to organize them a little better so each piece of information has a visual that clearly goes along with it. Second I would take out the space between the bold title and the paragraph in the third information box titled “127”. The only other thing I would change is the actual title of the table, if you were to just read the title you would not know the message being put out was about American’s over consumption of protein. I would change the title to “Over Portioned America” that way if the target audience is America then they can immediately find self-relevance and want to read the table.
 * Visual literacy**

**Reflection **
==**I was unaware of Visual Literacy and everything that goes into it, the PAT design is a helpful guideline to making things more applying to people. I would love to use all of the knowledge gained from this assignment to apply when I am making my own presentations for my students. Keeping student’s attention is very important for this younger generation and being able to make my visual appealing and keeping their attention will make me a more successful educator. **==