Hitchings | D054 | Fall 2023

Author: M. Genevieve Hitchings (Page 2 of 12)

Class Info

  • Date: Monday 12/04
  • Meeting Info: Room P114

Topic

  • Project 2 & 3 >>Activities/Projects/Project2&3
  • Phase 3 Design and Development >>Activities/Project2&3/Assignment7
    1. For your Diagram: Design your focal point. This should be clear, beautiful and stylized. You can use photography, or an illustration (digital or hand-drawn). Work should be original
    2. For your FlowChart/Timeline (sequential story) Organize your story sequentially (this should be outlined in your Project Proposal).
    3. Continue to research examples to reference as inspiration. Save them as URL links in your project proposal.

Activities and Lab Time

  • Presentation – In class presentations. We will print what you would like feedback on. 
  • Time to work 

Homework

  1. Phase 3 Design and Development >>Activities/Project2&3/Assignment7
  2. Save your doc or PDF with your name into the class Dropbox folder titled: >>Assignment7-DesignDevelopment

Class Info

  • Date: Monday 11/27
    Meeting Info: Room P114

Topic

  • Visual Diagrams – >>Visualization methods that help explain and show ideas or concepts.
  • Project 2 & 3 >>Activities/Projects/Project2&3
  • Intro Phase 3 Design and Development >>Activities/Project2&3/Assignment7
  • Review Phase 2: Develop concept and refine sketches >>Activities/Project2&3/Assignment06
    1. For your Diagram: Sketch and design your focal image. This should be clear, beautiful and stylized. You can use photography, or an illustration (digital or hand-drawn). Work should be original
    2. For your FlowChart/Timeline (sequential story) Flush out your content, create a mind-mapping chart to help focus subject. Organize all content that will appear in your sequential story (this should be outlined in your Project Proposal). Begin to experiment with how you might present the content visually.
    3. Research examples to reference as inspiration. Save them as URL links in your project proposal.

Activities and Lab Time

  • Final Project 1 Review – InClass Critique
  • Time to work

Homework

  1. Read Article: >>Datavizcatalogue.com Selecting a Chart Based on the Number of Variables
  2. Phase 3 Design and Development >>Activities/Project2&3/Assignment7
    Save your doc or PDF with your name into the class Dropbox folder titled: >>Assignment7-DesignDevelopment

Assignment 7 Design and Development

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Getting Started

Phase 3 Design Development Before moving to this stage, make sure you have:

  1. Refined your thesis statement
  2. Collected, organized and written all 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 piece

Mission

Visually tell a story through researched and fact based information. The following two designs can be presented together in one poster or separately in two:

Project 2: Visual Diagram – a clear, beautiful and stylized visual (photography, or an illustration – digital or hand-drawn) that shows the appearance, structure, or workings of something.

Project 3: FlowChart/Timeline (sequential story) – presenting an information sequence that explains a concept through a series of steps: A. B. C., 1. 2. 3., etc. The steps do not have to be presented sequentially but they need to be read/ understood within the context of each other.

Continue to 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 or Horizontal 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 14 Monday 12/11/23

  • Please make a folder with your name and save your design comps as PDFs into the >>Assignment 7: Design Development Dropbox folder
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