Information Design - Exercises

Information Design - Exercises

INFORMATION DESIGN - GCD60504

Hussain Waheed (0344802)

Bachelor of Design (Hons) in Creative Media

GCD60504: Exercises

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INSTRUCTIONS:

MIB PDF

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LECTURES:

Week 1: This week's lecture is about information visualisation. The lecture explains the importance of data visualising and arrangement when designing visual content. 

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EXERCISES:

INDIVIDUAL TASK 1: Quantify and Visualise Data

For this task, we were told to find similar items from our home that has a significant amount so that they can be arranged in a way that visualises the items in a more organised way.

I used my pen collection for this task. The first image shows the pens in an unorganised way:

Figure 1.0: Unorganised pens.jpg

The second image below shows the pens and ink cartridges arranged and labelled so that the items can be distinguished from each other.

Figure 1.1: Organised items.jpg

The image below is the final arrangement that shows the items in an interesting arrangement that is both visually pleasing as well as organised and labelled.

Figure 1.2: Final Arrangement.jpg

Here are the three arrangement stages of the pen collection:

Figure 1.3: All 3 arrangements.jpg

INDIVIDUAL TASK 2: Flip 2 Redesign Bad Infographic

For this task, we were to find a poorly designed infographic from the internet, find the problems within that design and then redesign the infographic by solving the problems. For this task, I searched for bad infographics and found many. I chose the below infographic about the annual sales of popular fast food chains. The concept is of a simple chart diagram that is supposed to show a single line of numbers from each fast food chain. But the simple idea was designed in the worst possible way. The logos of the brands were stretched on both dimensions to very wrongly represent the numbers. Even the labels are scattered all over the place with no consistency whatsoever throughout the infographic.

Figure 1.4: Bad InfoGraphic for review - JPG

I searched on Canva for a template that could be used to show the above data in a much simpler way. I found the template below to be a very simple and easy to read diagram.

Figure 1.5: Template from Canva - jpg

Using the above template, set the amounts to show the numbers but in a simpler way without putting labels around the design. I also downloaded the logos but put them in the small circles above each brand with the brands colour on the bar to show the sales amount. I also removed the "Billion $" label from each chain and wrote it in a bracket below the headline as all the numbers were in billions. Here is the FINAL redesign of the infographic:

Figure 1.6: Final Design - JPG

MOTION GRAPHICS:

INDIVIDUAL WORK: Song lyric animation

Motion Chart: 

GROUP WORK: Song lyric animation

L.A.T.C.H:

For this exercise, we were instructed to design a poster that distributes information according to the L.A.T.C.H technique. For this poster, I did some idea sketches and research and decided to go with the different houses from the fictional world of The Game of Thrones by George .R.R Martin. The reason I chose this idea was to create a vintage map styled infographic that also has significant information such as the location, names, sigils or logos and the sayings of each of the houses.

I used a map of Game of thrones from mapdatabaseinfo.blogspot as a background image and the images for house sigils from gamerzone.co. Here are the images that I used to create the poster.

Figure 2.0: Images from internet for LATCH poster - JPG

Using these images, I designed a poster to show the locations, names, sigils and the sayings of the 9 houses of Westeros.

Here is the final poster:

Figure 2.1: LATCH Final poster JPG

Figure 2.2: LATCH Final poster PDF

FLIP PRESENTATION 1:

FLIP PRESENTATION 3: