Designed for a class project in Advanced Graphics; we were tasked with taking at least two statistics from Harper's Index that illustrated an interesting, thought-provoking comparison and turning them into an understandable, aesthetically-pleasing graphic.

My statistics focused on the differences between education in Japan vs. education in the USA, particularly in terms of foreign language skills (which are becoming ever more important, given the expansion and outreaching of technology, business and culture on a global scale). I used a simple graphic of the globe (color-coded to each country) and treated it as a typical pie chart, portraying the shocking visual difference at a glance. I offset the simple graphic with the actual statistic, done in an interesting, interlocking typographic style. The intention is that these graphics could be used either on an informational poster/ad, or as a graphic in a magazine article about the importance of global education in the USA.