LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT US:

Law student, trying to design a poster for a professor that gives an overview of our civil procedure class.

HERE IS WHAT WE NEED:

What do you need?

An infographic that improves upon the provided slide, showing an overview of civil procedure. Rather than give you a huge amount of info about CivPro, I'll be ultra-responsive to questions, so fire away with anything that occurs to you!

OUR TARGET AUDIENCE IS:

Who is your audience?

Law professors, but also law students. The goal is not necessarily to convey deep information about civil procedure so much as a the 35,000 ft view of the topics that it covers and the questions it addresses. See the attached image.

WE LIKE THESE EXAMPLES:

We like these designs:

Basically going to clean and simple. See Flowing Data for examples that match that description and you'll have general idea.

http://flowingdata.com/

Similarly, but more artistic I guess, something like this is extremely appealing:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelpauk...

Hopefully that gives you a range of styles to play with.

WE ABSOLUTELY MUST HAVE THIS IN OUR PIECE:

Our design absolutely must have:

It does need to include the text and elements included in the attached image. However, I'm flexible on everything else. For fonts/style, I'm thinking more modern sans serif than, um, Palatino, but again, I'm flexible.

Things we dont like or don't need for this project or other things to avoid using, doing, seeing, etc.

We only need to visualize the information in the attached image, preferably in a circular form (but that's NOT absolutely essential. Feel free to convince me otherwise).