Getting Started

Phase 3 Information Graphic: Design Development Before moving into this stage, make sure you have completed:

  1. Refined your thesis statement
  2. Collected, organized and written your content
  3. Found some excellent examples of professional work that can serve as inspiration and reference
  4. Developed a few sketches and settled on the one that gives you a clear plan forward and supports your thesis statement
  5. Experimented with a grid structure
  6. Started to develop the visual assets (graph, charts, images and photos) that you will need to visualize the piece.
  7. Settled on a typeface that is functional and in style with your peice

Mission

Visually tell a story through researched and fact based information using graphic based charts and graphs. The design in the form of a poster must present a ‘problem’ and then explain or explore the ‘problem’ through quantitative or qualitative information that has been researched and is displayed in a way that clarifies and compares.

Continue go back to your thesis statement, all components or your design solution should support your thesis statement, keep revising.

Document Specs

Set up the document in InDesign. Chunk your outline into sections and lay them out within your decided gird.

  • Tabloid Poster – 11×17 inches (Vertical layout)
  • Margin: 0.5”
  • Bleed: 0.25”
  • Set up a grid
  • Gutter: .025”

Optional: You can choose to work larger – 20″ x 30″

DUE – First Draft

Week 7 Monday 10/24/22