COMD3601Information Design, FA2025

Class Info

• Date: Monday 11/10
• Meeting Info: Room P114

Topic

Graphs and Charts (Presentations Continue)

Defining Deliverables: Beyond the Poster (Paula Scher Presentation)

Project 2 & 3 Design and Development

Class Activity

• Presentations Continue
  • Choropleth Map: Chess
  • Line Chart: Sam
  • Stacked Bar Chart: David                  
  • Timeline: Eugene
  • Pie Chart: Shameeka
• Project 2 & 3 Continue
  • Save your PDF(s) into >>Project2&3-DRAFT dropbox folder so I can print in black and white
  • Review the >>GRADING RUBRIC – Checklist
• Tag-team – everyone review 1 student’s project – provide the following feedback:
  1. Is the overall message of the info-graphic clear – why or why not?
  2. Did the designer effectively use facts and data to support their thesis (and title of the piece) – why or why not?
  3. Does the design of the info-graphic effectively showcase the content:
     • clear focal point?
     • clear hierarchy of information?
     • effective use of typography, headers, colors, page structure, etc.?
     • overall attention to detail (spelling, grammar, punctuation, etc)
• Lecture >>Types of Visual Presentations (continued)

Homework

1. FINAL Due Week 10
   Please make a folder with your name and save your final design as a PDF into the >>Project2&3 Dropbox folder
2. Read
   1. Grimwade, John. “The Infographic Family” Ohio University, October 17, 2018. (VisCom at Ohio University)
   2. Christiansen, Jen. “Visualizing Science: Illustration and Beyond” Scientific American, October 25, 2018. (Scientific American)
   3. Read: Grimwade, John. “Pictogram Story” Ohio University, January 8, 2019. (VisCom at Ohio University)
   4. Read: ColumnFiveMedia “How to Write a Compelling Infographic Story in 5 Steps”
   5. Forrest, Jason. “W. E. B. Du Bois’ staggering Data Visualizations are as powerful today as they were in 1900 (Part 2&3)” Medium, Jul 18, 2018. (Medium)

Class Info

• Date: Monday 11/03 
• Meeting Info: Room P114

Topic

Sequential Storytelling: FlowChart, Timeline, Geographic, Instructional

Defining Deliverables: Beyond the Poster (Paula Scher Presentation)

Project 2 & 3 Design and Development: First Draft (Review and continuation of last week)

1. For your Diagram: Design should have a clear focal point (text or 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. If you). 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.

Activities and Lab Time

• Presntations Begin (10% of your Final Grade)
  • Everyone has been assigned a Graph or Chart to research and present to the class. Check your date: >>Presentations-Project5. If you miss your presentation you will not get credit for the assignment:
  • Histogram: Tennile
• Lecture >>Types of Visual Presentations
• Design Development
  • Those that did not present last week, present their progress and receive feedback
  • Review the >>GRADING RUBRIC – Checklist (from week 7)
• Lab time to work

Homework

Project 2&3

1. Draft due vext week: Week 09
2. FINAL Due Week 10
   Please make a folder with your name and save your final design as a PDF into the  >>Dropbox Folder