London Attacks

On the BBC news website, I found an account of the London bombings in 2007. Maps and diagrams show the positioning of the bombers on the tube trains and bus that were targeted as well as the area combed by forensics where the bus blast went off. Maps also inform everybody about where the different bomb blasts went off in comparison to one another.

The map showing the area affected by the blasts is quite basic in terms of how detailed it is. Road names are not on the map and neither is a scale to show how close the blasts were to one another. However, the map does contain very identifiable and well-known places on it, which give people a very good idea of the range of the blasts and whereabouts they happened. The River Thames, Regents Park and also Hyde Park are included on the map and I think they help to distinguish where the blasts occurred.

The key that shows the different lines of the tube that were affected is simple and easy to understand with the use of a distinguishable colour to represent each line. I think that there is enough information here to tell the audience the story of where all the events took place. Any more information, taking into account the size of the map, and I think this would have overcrowded the information being given and it would have been too complicated to look at and work out. By outlining where the blasts took place in a white box and making the text blue, this highlights to the audience where each blast was. It jumps off the page and does not need a lot of working out because you can understand this quite easily.





I think the layout of this information is aesthetically pleasing because of the angles created in the design, such as the more detailed image of the train between Russell Square and Kings Cross coming off the less detailed image at the top. I think this works really well. The placement of the text and the image has been done in a way that neither collide and so it is pleasing to the eye and also the text is legible.