INFORMATION DESIGN - EXERCISES

INFORMATION DESIGN - EXERCISES

07.01.19 - (Week 1 - Week 8)
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Information Design
Exercises

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LECTURES

Lecture 1 : MIB Briefing & History of Information Visualisation

07.01.19 (Week 1)

In this week, we briefed on our upcoming exercises and projects for this module with Ms Anis. Here is the link to our assignment brief: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ngADOd9LtTpOKFNjm2pIujOlg7MTjc5mhqQmIRl26wM/edit?usp=sharing

Then, we moved on to our first lecture on the history of information visualisation.

From this lecture, we learned that visuals play an important role in information design because people respond well to visuals more than texts as we live in a visual information culture.


Lecture 2 : Flip Topic 1 : Manuel Lima's 9 Directives Manifesto

09.01.19 (Week 1)

In this week, we had a group presentation where we present about this week's topic called Manuel Lima's 9 Directives Manifesto. 

Lecture 3 : Flip Topic 2 : Saul Wurman's L.A.T.C.H

14.01.19 (Week 2)

For this lecture, we did a group presentation about Saul Wurman's L.A.T.C.H which consists of 5 principles which are Location, Alphabet, Time, Category and Hierarchy.

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INSTRUCTIONS

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EXERCISES

Exercise  1 : AE Basic

08.01.19

For this exercise, we need to make a simple and minimalistic infographic. We were given some topics (car, animals and movie) to choose from and we were tasked to make a short video consisting of 30 seconds about the topic that we have chose. I decided to make a video about animals where I wanted to compare these 2 different breed of dogs which were pug and bulldog. Firstly, I used Adobe Illustrator to illustrate and make it in layers. Then, I continued to animate my video in Adobe After Effects with adding transitions.

Fig 1.1 Screenshot in AI

Fig 1.2 Screenshot in AE

Fig 1.3 Bulldog vs Pug

Exercise 2 : Dynamic Number

15.01.18

This week we did an exercise of using After Effects to animate and we need to research on data and I decided to make about New York Disneyland Milestones.

Fig 1.4 Screenshot in AI

After illustrating in Adobe Illustrator, we were told to animate in After effects where we inserted the numbers and also rectangles. 

Fig 1.5 Attendance Information Design

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EXERCISES

Exercise 1 : Buttons Information

08.01.19 - 14.01.19 (Week 1)

We were given numerous buttons with different colours, textures, sizes and numbers of holes. We needed to make a data collection to create an information/infographic poster of buttons. The information should be presented in an illustrative visual manner. 

We are free to use any method to do this exercise such as collage, digital illustration, hand-drawn and etc in A4.

Every one of us would be choosing the color of the buttons and do a data collection of the buttons that we had chosen. After collecting all of the data, we will share with our classmates because we had to do at least 5 different colours of the buttons.

Fig 2.1 Data of purple buttons

Fig 2.2 Purple buttons

Fig 2.3 Data of white buttons

Fig 2.4 White buttons

Fig 2.5 Data of red buttons

Fig 2.6 Red buttons

Fig 2.7 Data of light pink buttons

Fig 2.8 Light pink buttons

Fig 2.9 Pink buttons

After choosing the buttons, I illustrated them in Adobe Illustrator.

Fig 2.10 Screenshot in AI

Fig 2.11 Final result of buttons poster

Exercise 2 : L.A.T.C.H (Location/Alphabet/Time/Category/Hierarchy)

14.01.19 - 29.01.19 (Week 2 - Week 4)

For the next exercise, we had to make a 30 seconds silent video about Pokemon's presenting each principles of L.A.T.C.H. 

Here is the links for pokemons :  https://www.pokemon.com/us/pokedex

I organise the Pokemons first and categorised them according to the principles.

Fig 2.12 Pokemon Sinnoh Map

Fig 2.13 Color scheme

Fig 2.14 Screenshot of illustration

Fig 2.15 Screenshot in AE

Here is the link of the video result :
 https://youtu.be/-Pi1ved9-44