Category: Class Agendas (Page 3 of 5)

Class Info

• Date: Monday 11/07
  
• Meeting Info: Room P114

Topic

• Intro to Project 2 & 3 >>Activities/Projects/Project2&3
• Finalize Project 1 – Info Graphic
  • Review >> Lessons/The Principles of Design
  • Review  >>Project 1 see GRADING RUBRIC here
• Overview of Subject Matter – Inspiration
  
  • Parshina-Kottas, Yuliya “Social Distancing” April 14, 2020 (New York Times)
  • Parshina-Kottas, Yuliya “What Hospitals and Health Care Workers Need” March 27. 2020 (New York Times)
  • Popovich, Nadja “See How the World’s Most Polluted” Dec 2, 2019 (New York Times)
  • Grimwade, John. “The Infographic Family” Ohio University, October 17, 2018. (VisCom at Ohio University)
  • Christiansen, Jen. “Visualizing Science: Illustration and Beyond” Scientific American, October 25, 2018. (Scientific American)

Activities and Lab Time

• Review ‘revised draft’ of info-graphic poster >>Assignment5-InfoGraphic-Final Dropbox folder
• Tag-team – everyone review 1 student’s info-graphic – 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)

Homework

1. Project 1 FINAL Due Week 12
   Please make a folder with your name and save your design comps as PDFs into the >>Assignment5-InfoGraphic-Final 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”

Class Info

• Date: Monday 10/31 – Happy Halloween!
  
• Meeting Info: Room P114

Topic

Project 1 – Info Graphic

• DUE Second Draft: Phase 3 >>Activities/Assignment 4: Design and Development 
  
• Third group of Class Presentations >>Activities/Assignment3:InClassPresentations
  You can save your presentation into this dropbox folder (make sure you create a folder with your name on it): >>Assignment3-Chart/GraphPresentations
  • Flow Chart:  Maria Iacono 
  • Tree Diagram: Cindy Ovando   
  • Calendar: Angela Iacono 
• In Class Critique  >> Lessons/The Principles of Design
• See >>Project 1 see GRADING RUBRIC here

Activities and Lab Time

• See here for >> Past Student Work Examples
• Review in class example files posted here in Dropbox class folder: >>Project1Examples
• Lab time to continue work on Phase 3: Design and Production >>Activities/Assignment 4: Design and Development
• Review tutorial about it here:
• Creating a scatter plot chart in Illustrator >>Find in-class example files here

Homework

1. Finalize all copy for your info-graphic. Revisit your research proposal and complete all copy. All content should be composed and completed in your research PDF >>Assignment1-Research
2. FINAL Draft Due Week 9 Monday 11/07/22
   Please make a folder with your name and save your final design as a PDF into the >>Assignment5-InfoGraphic-Final Dropbox folder
3.  Midterm grades: Passing Work [P],  Border Line [BL], Unsatisfactory [U], Stopped Attending [SA]  will be posted to the OpenLab GradeBook this week.

Class Info

• Date: Monday 10/24
• Meeting Info: Room P114

Topic

Project 1 – Info Graphic

• DUE First Draft: Phase 3 >>Activities/Assignment 4: Design and Development
  
• Second group of Class Presentations >>Activities/Assignment3:InClassPresentations
  You can save your presentation into this dropbox folder (make sure you create a folder with your name on it): >>Assignment3-Chart/GraphPresentations
  • Line Chart: Joseph Asimeng                             
  • Area Char:  Elvis Gordillo                            
  • Map:  Faye Wang                     
  • Timeline: Kyle Nam                              
  • Histogram: Mercedes Alvarez                                                     
  • Choropleth Map: Freddy Romero
• >> The Principles of Design
• Creating a scatter plot chart in Illustrator >>Find in-class example files here
• You can watch an additional tutorial about it here:

Activities and Lab Time

• See here for >> Past Student Work Examples
• Review in class example files posted here in Dropbox class folder: >>Project1Examples
• Lab time to continue work on Phase 3: Design and Production >>Activities/Assignment 4: Design and Development

Homework

Read:

1. Read Introduction: Meirelles, Isabel. >>Design for Information: Chapter 2, Quarto Publishing Group USA, 2013. ProQuest Ebook Central.
2. >>Activities/Assignment 4: Design and Development Second Draft Due Week 8 Monday 10/31/22
   Please make a folder with your name and save your design comps as PDFs into the >>Assignment 4: Design Development Dropbox folder
3. Group 3 Presents Assignment 3: >>Activties/Assignment3:InClassPresentations