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Phase 2 Diagram and FlowChart/ Timeline: Concept Development Now that you have spent some time understanding and learning about your topic, gathering, organizing and assessing content, it’s time to start to think about your visual solution.

As you begin to sketch and visualize your ideas keep go back to your thesis statement, all components or your design solution should support your thesis statement, keep revising.

DUE

Week 12 Monday 11/28/22

1. Browse tips posted here: >>Lesson/ConceptDevelopment
2. Please make a folder in the class Dropbox with your name and save your concept sketches and design comps as PDFs into the >>Assignment7-ConceptDevelopment

A. Organize Content

1. Your project should have one main focused thesis:
   • What’s the core message?
   • What’s the main question being answered?
2. Organize your content into a clear outline
3. Use bullet points to organize details for each section
4. If appropriate gather the right data to support your thesis.
5. Identify the type of graph that will help you visualize this data: >>The Data Visualisation Catalogue

B. References

You can find references and explore some excellent design work here: >>Lessons/Inspiration

• Gather images from a variety of sources that help to inspire and guide you
• Identify at least three designers who have successfully completed work that is inspiring and perhaps related to aspects of your project

C. Sketches

Create at least 10 sketches of your layout and related ideas:

• Each sketch MUST have a border around it, in proportion to the actual final work in order to clearly specify the dimensions of the space. Sketches can be scaled much smaller.
• Sketches should give you a sense the of the space you are working with and show how you might organize the content to fit. Reference your outline from your content document. Work within a grid.

D. Defining A Grid

Set up the document in InDesign. Create several pages with different grid systems. Chunk your outline into sections and lay them out within the gird.

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

E. Asset Building

• Begin to create and collect needed images. If you are illustrating your piece make sure you set aside the time to create the illustrations. If you are using photography, make sure they are high-resolution and visually consistent
• Set up a file in Illustrator and continue to build and experiment with the graph tool

F. Typeface

Carefully select (no more than 2) typefaces you would like to work with for your project. Do your research and show your research.

• Study the typefaces available to you in the FONT folder on the computers in class
• Choose two different typefaces that compliment each other, perhaps a serif and a sans serif
• Try to choose typefaces that come with a large variety of of fonts: Light, Condensed, Heavy, Extended, etc.

DUE

Week 12 Monday11/28/22

Be prepared to present all of the above items with the class. Please make a folder with your name and save all the above work as PDFs into the >>Assignment7-ConceptDevelopment Dropbox folder

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

• Please make a folder with your name and save your design comps as PDFs into the >>Assignment 4: Design Development Dropbox folder

Presenting Graphs/Charts

There are a number of well-established models that are important to understand when visualizing information. These models have evolved over time and are meant to help organize and structure quantitative information through graphic representation in ways that make concepts easier to understand.

See the list of different charts and graphs below, also featured on the >>Data Visualization Catalogue project developed by Severino Ribecca.

Please sign up for one and prepare a five-ten minute presentation to share with the class. Presentations should include:

1. A detailed description of what the chart/graph shows best and what kind of data it represents. You can use the Data Visualization Catalogue to find this information.
2. Carefully browse through the links listed on the class course site: >>Activities/Lessons/Inspiration and find at least two examples of the chart you are in presenting in a professional layout. Be sure to include the credits for the design work you show and be prepared to explain what the design you are showing is about.   
3. How you decide to make your presentation is up to you. You can create a PowerPoint presentation, you can walk us through websites, you can collect a series of images in a folder and present the work from the folder. Whichever way you decide to show, your presentation should be organized and demonstrate thorough research on your part. You should be able to talk about the pieces you show.

Sign up for one of the following:

You can save your presentation into this dropbox folder (make sure you create a folder with your name on it): >>Assignment3-Chart/GraphPresentations

COMPARISONS

Showing differences or similarities between values.

Due Week 6

• Bar Chart: Calvin Garcia                             
• Pie Chart: Iqra Bhatti                           
• Stacked Bar Chart: Destiny Thomas               
• Bubble Chart: Wilna Michel                    
• Bubble Cloud:  Bryan Rodriguez                      
• Radial Column Graph:  Sadman Hafiz      

TRANSFORMATIONS

Showing transformations over time or via Location

Due Week 7

• Line Chart: Joseph Asimeng                             
• Area Char:  Elvis Gordillo                             
• Dot Maps:     
• Map:  Faye Wang                     
• Timeline: Kyle Nam                              
• Histogram: Mercedes Alvarez                                
• Gantt Chart                            
• Choropleth Map: Freddy Romero

ORGANIZATION

Arranging content by groupings, rankings, or process

Due Week 8

• Timetable:                   
• Flow Chart:  Maria Iacono                
• Mind Map:              
• Venn Diagram              
• Heatmap                  
• Tree Diagram: Cindy Ovando            
• Calendar: Angela Iacono                    
• Population Pyramid      

Please let me know in class which you would like to present and I will add your name to the Chart/Graph.