Week 11

Agenda

Wednesday 04/29/20

Announcements

• The BioDesign Challenge – Meeting with Dr. Sumeyye Yar, a biochemist on Monday 5/4 at 1PM (I will be sending a video chat link). She can advise, answer questions and help fine-tune a strong and feasible idea/proposal. Please email me to confirm your attendance!
• BFA Show Submission – Deadline extended
  Submit here by Friday 5/8/2020
• Internship Opportunity: Faculty Commons – learn more, click here!

Due

1. Phase 1: Project 2&3 Proposal -Collecting Information
   Save your doc or PDF with your name into the class google docs folder titled: Week10-Project2&3Proposal 
2. Phase 2 Develop concept and refine sketches:
   1. For your Diagram: Sketch and design your focal image. This should be clear, beautiful and stylized. You can use photography, or an illustration (digital or hand-drawn). Work should be original
   2. For your FlowChart/Timeline (sequential story) Flush out your content, create a mind-mapping chart to help focus subject. Organize all content that will appear in your sequential story (this should be outlined in your Project Proposal). Begin to experiment with how you might present the content visually.
   3. Research examples to reference as inspiration. Save them as URL links in your project proposal.
3. Post Your Work: post all your sketches for class review and
   feedback to Post Your Work and also to the Google Drive folder: Week10-Project2&3-Sketches/Drafts

Lecture

1. 1. ISOTYPE Introduction
      

• Pictographs, Pictograms, Pictorial Symbols, Icons
• 30,000 year-old cave paintings, Sumerian sign-writing, Egyptian hieroglyphs, Mayan calendar icons
• Otto Neurath’s Isotype (developed in the 1920s) with Marie Reidemeister and Gerd Arntz. Graphic information movement called ISOTYPE (International System of TYpographic Picture Education)
• Emojis
• Universal picture language is easy to read by anyone (bypassing language)
• In class 3 minute presentations of sketches and topic.
  • Make sure you save all your sketches and research into a folder with your name in the class Google Drive folder: Week10-Project2&3-Sketches/Drafts
  • In addition post all your sketches for class review and
    feedback to Post Your Work

Homework

Assignment

1. Phase 2 Continue to develop concept and refine sketches for Project 2&3
2. Review everyone’s ‘sketches’ posted to Post Your Work
3. Choose three student’s work (that have not yet received comments from three students) and provide each with the following feedback:
   1. Is the overall message of the sketch clear – why or why not?
      
   2. Does the designer effectively use facts and data to support their thesis (and title of the piece) – why or why not?
   3. Does sketch effectively showcase the content:
      • clear focal point?
      • clear hierarchy of information?
      • effective use of a grid?

Read

1. Homes, Nigel “Picture Language, Part1” Infographics for the People, February 6, 2017.
2. Homes, Nigel “The Isotope revolution, Part2” Infographics for the People, February 13, 2017.
3. Homes, Nigel “Emojis and beyond, Part3” Infographics for the People, February 20, 2017.