Category: Week3

Class Info

• Date: Monday 9/18
• Meeting Info: Room P114

Topic

• >> Week 3 Lecture : Information Design A Brief History
• Introduction to Project 1:
  • >>Activities/Project 1 Overview
  • >>Activities/Assignment 1: Research

Activities and Lab Time

• >Overview about ways of organizing and arranging information: >>www.artorium.com
• >>The Data Visualisation Catalogue Take a peak at the Data Visualisation Catalogue, a project developed by Severino Ribecca to create a (non-code-based) library of different information visualisation types. The website serves as a learning and inspiration resource for those working with data visualisation.
• Introduction to Illustrator and its graph tools based on a simple class survey: >> See Week3-Files in DropBox

Homework

1. Read:
   • 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)

   • >>W.E.B. Du Bois’ Visionary Infographics Come Together for the First Time in Full Color

2. Browse research tips posted here: >>Lesson/Research
3. Review Introduction to Project 1 Overview above and work on:
   • >>Activities/Assignment 1: Research Due Week 4: 9/29
     Please make a folder with your name and save your research word doc or PDF into the >>Project 1 Phase 1: Research Dropbox folder
4. Review the following website: >>Lesson/Inspiration
   Find an excellent example of each of the following (copy and paste the URL to the comment part of this blog):
   • • 1 Info Graphic
     • 1 Diagram
     • 1 Flow Chart
5. For additional support on creating graphs in Illustrator watch this tutorial: