I felt it important that the report’s graphs & visualizations were integrated with the storytelling of the text. JS and CSS work in concert to embellish those data.
I mined the Library Of Congress’s and National Archives’s digital treasuries of photography to ground the reading experience.
Certain key themes reappear throughout the source text. I designed a system of using color coding to denote these themes, pulling the hues from the client’s own style guide.
Lush collages of public-domain imagery—from an earlier age of skills training—retain our reader’s attention.
This animated visualization did not exist in the source text. Instead, the manuscript described this phenomenon through static data tables. Out of a desire to make it as lucid as possible, I proposed a different—more explicitly narrative—approach, which the client blessed.