The monarchy and the royal baby
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Ipsos has a tradition of polling the British public on how they feel about the Monarchy. With the arrival of the Royal baby, once again we have provided a snap shot of public opinion on the Royal Family and the future of its heir in 2013.
The infographic shows that most Britons think Prince William and Kate Middleton’s child should have a normal job before taking on royal duties (65%), however, most think that it is impossible for royal children to have a normal upbringing (70%). It is also interesting to note that despite the desire for the Royal baby to have a normal upbringing, just three in ten (29%) think the child should be sent to a state school.
Support for the Monarchy remains high with 77% of the British public in favour of it. Only 17% think that Britain should be a republic and around half of the population believe Prince Charles should not give up his right to be the next monarch in favour of William (52%).
This infographic aims to depict data in a cogent and engaging way. At Ipsos we are committed to sharing understanding of our research in the belief that this makes for informed debate.
Designer's Note
by Tom Warren
This was slightly unusual compared to how I usually work for two reasons. Firstly, we had no idea of the release date, so I had to turn something around quite quickly just in case the baby was born overnight and we needed to publish the next morning. Secondly, I wanted to try something different from a design perspective. I had noticed a recent trend in a few infographic examples where an image was used as the background, with the infographic occasionally even interacting with the image in some way. I really wanted to give it a go, so all I needed was a decent image that would lend itself well to this. What better to give me some flat surfaces to display the data on, than a building, and Buckingham Palace no less!
With the image sourced it just required some imaginative layout ideas for the charts and a quick tutorial on perspective grids to get them all to line up realistically. This is something I’d never tried before, but the tools in Illustrator combined with the Free Transform tool from Photoshop for those little tweeks really made it easy. Which was exactly what I needed given that, as I mentioned, this needed to be turned around so quickly.
