Fault Lines
With a decade of wage stagnation and a flatlining job market, substantially increased house prices, tax policies designed to benefit the older generation - young peoples aged 15-34 years who are beginning to try plan for their future are often limited by an anxiety of the inability to think long term.
‘Fault Lines’ represents data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics to illustrate the widening wealth gap between the generations of Baby Boomers, aged 60 years over, and Young Millennials, aged 15-34 years. The data is showcased through a newspaper inspired. After delving into data sets sourced from the Australian Bureau of Statistics a strong narrative formed. A widening wealth gap between young and older generations was evident across all economic areas; this being home ownership, household debt, tax transfers, net benefits etc.
This data was compiled in excel and then taken into illustrator where the chart tools were utilised to form the basic forms of data visualisations. Using Illustrator editing tools, the visualisation were worked developed then edited into the publications 'Fault Lines'.
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High Fidelity Mockup of Creative Code Application of 'Fault Lines'
