Category: Week9

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”