Author: Cass Reese

Have a wonderful holiday break!

Due Today:

By Tuesday @3pm: In thin pocket folder include (in this order): filled out self-evaluation, P5A + P5B project sheets, Preliminary Design Research (10 titles, introduction, data collection, 6 charts, and your hook), 10 thumbnails, 5 roughs, initial comps, final revision comp on ricoh (print smaller versions or fold). For P5B, include sketches and storyboard. Three-hole punch everything that is process related (or use plastic sleeves). Final print of infographic poster design MUST be printed to scale in color.

By Tuesday @3pm: Project 5 Poster Final Presentations (1–2 minutes)

Due Thursday @3pm: 

Upload PDF (Save as “Smallest File Size”) of poster AND 3 animated icons .gifs to D2L. The icons will be shared digitally with the class. Deadline Extension: Icons are now due THURSDAY by 3pm online only. We will not meet in class on Thursday. 

Due Today:

• P4A Revision Crit: Tile print infographic poster.
• P5B: Render 3 animated GIFs from Photoshop.

For Today:

• P5A+B Revision Crit

Due Next Class:

• By Tuesday: In thin pocket folder include (in this order): filled out self-evaluation, P5A + P5B project sheets, Preliminary Design Research (10 titles, introduction, data collection, 6 charts, and your hook), 10 thumbnails, 5 roughs, initial comps, final revision comp on ricoh (print smaller versions or fold). For P5B, include sketches and storyboard. Three-hole punch everything that is process related (or use plastic sleeves). Final print of infographic poster design MUST be printed to scale in color.
• By Tuesday @3pm: Project 5 Poster Final Presentations (1–2 minutes)
• By Thursday @3pm: Upload PDF (Save as “Smallest File Size”) of poster AND 3 animated icons .gifs to D2L. The icons will be shared digitally with the class. Deadline Extension: Icons are now due THURSDAY by 3pm online only. We will not meet in class on Thursday. 

Project 5 Timeline:

• 12.11 – SUBMIT P5 (A+B) – 12:30–2:30 final presentations + pizza party

Due Today: P5A: Revised Posters; P5B: Sketches and 3 Storyboards

For Today:

• Demo Files: Animated GIFs
• Small Group Crits on P5B sketches and storyboard
• Individual consultations + Studio

Today’s Resources:

• https://airbnb.design/modern-pictograms-for-lottie/
• https://medium.com/inspiration-supply/icons-animations-8e0539f8857e
• http://motionographer.com/2014/09/09/anicons/
• https://designmodo.com/gif-icons/

Due Next Class:

• P4A Revision Crit: Tile print infographic poster.
• P5B: Render 3 animated GIFs from Photoshop.

Project 5 Timeline:

• 12.04 – P5A Small Crit; P5B Small Crit on thumbnails; Demo: Animated GIFs
• 12.06 – P5A+B Revision Crit (full class)
• 12.11 – SUBMIT P5 (A+B) – 12:30–2:30 final presentations

Due Today: First Finish Poster (tile print to scale on Ricoh) for initial crit

For Today:

• Assign Project 5B: Icons in Motion
• First Finish Crit

Due Next Class:

• P5A Phase IV – Revised Poster: Continue to revise your Infographic Poster
• P5A Phase IV – Revised Poster: Bring print of design for small group crits
• P5B Phase I – Sketches + Storyboard: Begin initial sketches to explore movement for animated icons. For each of your 3 selected icons, storyboard (8–12 frames) the movement for each icon on 8” x 11” in approximately 2” x 3” squares. Create 3 final storyboards (one for each icon) and bring to
  next class.

Project 5 Timeline:

• 11.29 – P5A: First Finish Crit (tile print to scale on Ricoh); Begin P5B
• 12.04 – P5A Small Crit; P5B Small Crit on thumbnails; Demo: Animated GIFs
• 12.06 – P5A+B Revision Crit (full class)
• 12.11 – SUBMIT P5 (A+B) – 12:30–2:30 final presentations

For Today: Review Phase II + III Process Work; Review Infographic Poster Considerations; Small Group Crits

Today’s Resources

• Distance to Mars
• Cheetah Interactive Infographic
• 2012 Election Infographic
• A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods
• Moving Out: Sustaining Life on Another Planet
• Avoid Hidden Costs While Traveling
• Collection of More Infographics

Due Next Class:

• Tile Print your design to scale on the Ricoh for First Finish Crit – approximate 13″ x  19″ minimum scale. Scale can be changed to be skinnier, wider, larger, or a different shape.

Project 5 Timeline:

• 11.27 – Due: P5A Phase II + III; Small group crits
• 11.29 – P5A: First Finish Crit (tile print to scale on Ricoh); Begin P5B
• 12.04 – P5A Small Crit; P5B Small Crit on thumbnails; Demo: Animated GIFs
• 12.06 – P5A+B Revision Crit (full class)
• 12.11 – SUBMIT P5 (A+B) – final presentations

 

Due Today: P5 Phase I Process Work

For Today:

• Review Phase I Process Work

P5_Infographic_Poster

 

Today’s Resources

• CoolInfographics
• How Humanity will Greet Extraterrestrials
• Distance to Mars
• Cheetah Interactive Infographic + Jacob O’Neal
• A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods
• Moving Out: Sustaining Life on Another Planet
• Avoid Hidden Costs While Traveling
  reposted from last class (below)
• Paul McCartney Infographic
• The Best Infographics 2013
• Virtual Water
• Information is Beautiful
• Visual Complexity
• Infostethics
• Good Magazine Infographics
• Flickr: Infographics
• Listen to Wikipedia
• SolarBeat
• Ted Talk: The Beauty of Data Visualization
• Motion Infographic

Due Next Class: 

• P5 Phase II + III
  • 10 thumbnails: Sketch 10 thumbnails of your infographic poster to visualize the poster them. Explore ways to communicate your message through the organization of content using your icon system, typographical information, and additional illustration/photography.
  • 5 roughs: Select your best concepts and refine them into 5 roughs. Present as 1/2 size (8.5″ x 11″ minimum) drawings to include increased representation of conceptual relationships, values, shapes and elements.

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Project 5 Timeline:

• 11.20 – Due: P5 Phase I; Lecture: Infographics
• 11.27 – Due: P5A Phase II
• 11.29 – P5A: First Finish Crit
• 12.04 – Begin P5B; P5A Small Crit; Demo: Animated GIFs
• 12.06 – P5 Revision Crit
• 12.11 – Due: Final P5 (A+B)

Due Today: Submit Final P4: Icon System

For Today:

• P4 Presentations
• Begin P5: Infographic Poster

Today’s Resources

• Paul McCartney Infographic
• The Best Infographics 2013
• Virtual Water
• Information is Beautiful
• Visual Complexity
• Infostethics
• Good Magazine Infographics
• Flickr: Infographics
• Listen to Wikipedia
• SolarBeat
• Ted Talk: The Beauty of Data Visualization
• Motion Infographic

Due Next Class

• P5 Phase I: Preliminary Design Research (10 titles, introduction, data collection, 6 charts, and your hook)
  • Catchy Title: Write 10 titles that connect to your icon system. Communicate to your reader one main idea that will somehow benefit them. Narrow your message and avoid being too general. Be creative!
  • Enticing Introduction: As part of your research, write an introduction that is going to describe your infographic to sit above the content. Use this to build excitement regarding what the topic is about. Highlight some key facts from the research.
  • Collect data/content: Generate data and copy supplementing your icon set. You can collect secondary research from reliable sources, or use your own primary data such as the number of people that share this interest.
  • Research charts/graphs: Create 6 thumbnails of charts to visualize the researched statistics.
  • The “hook” and serial position effect: Determine the hook: Every information graphic has a fact or statistic that really stands out and likely bonds the rest of the infographic together. That’s called the hook. At the research stage of an information graphic, try to pick out that one fact and help the designer determine what needs to be important when it comes to the actual design. Also, consider the Serial Position Effect: An individual’s ability to recall an item on a list is affected by that item’s position on the list. Recall is far higher for the first and last items in a list. It is worth arranging your research so that the designer puts the amazing facts in the first and final sections. What is your hook? Come up with as many ideas as you can to hook your viewer.
• Upload PDFs of P1 and P3 to D2L before start of class Thursday. I photographed the menus and do not need PDFs of these projects.

Project 5 Timeline:

• 11.20 – Due: P5 Phase I; Lecture: Infographics
• 11.27 – Due: P5A Phase II
• 11.29 – P5A: First Finish Crit
• 12.04 – Begin P5B; P5A Small Crit; Demo: Animated GIFs
• 12.06 – P5 Revision Crit
• 12.11 – Due: Final P5 (A+B)

Due Today: Revised icon system for P4 final revision crit

P4 Considerations: Develop a unified, simplified, recognizable, memorable design system using the language of icons. Consider how to achieve unity in this icon set (concept, visual code, style, similarity of form: shape, color, line, medium, texture, figure/ground relationships, balance, scale). Consider how icons can be further simplified.

For Today: 

• Movements Presentations
• P4 Final Revision Crit

Due Today: 6 icons rendered in Illustrator printed 8.5″ x 11″ at 3″ x 3″ each icon.

P4 Considerations: Develop a unified, simplified, recognizable, memorable design system using the language of icons. Consider how to achieve unity in this icon set (concept, visual code, style, similarity of form: shape, color, line, medium, texture, figure/ground relationships, balance, scale). Consider how icons can be further simplified.

For Today: 

• First Finish Crit

Due Today: P4 Due: 45 thumbnails & 6 rough systems (by hand)

For Today: 

• Small Group Crit on 45 thumbs and 6 rough systems
• Individual consultations with Cass
• Check process work
• Studio time for P4