Class Info
- Date: Monday 8/29
- Meeting Info: Room P1114
- For logging into COMD classroom Lab computers, see instructions (account setup can happen from home): https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/comd-advisement/2023/08/24/student-computer-login-instructions-for-classroom-computers-and-other-systems/ Troubleshooting for students is in the Student Welcome Center on the Atrium 1st Floor.
Topic
- Introductions – Welcome!
- Please join the OpenLab and become a member of this site
- >> Review Course Syllabus
- >> Review Grading Policy Overview of the main projects for the semester (we will begin to discuss Project 1 during our next meeting: 9/11/23)
- >> Week 1 Lecture : Exploration to Information Design
Activities and Lab Time
- >>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: Complete >> SimpleClassSurvey-DataExcelSheet for instructions see >> Survey Legend here.
- Read my introduction to you and respond with yours >> Discussion: Introductions
Homework
Read/Watch
- Meirelles, Isabel. Design for Information : An Introduction to the Histories, Theories, and Best Practices Behind Effective Information Visualizations, Quarto Publishing Group USA, 2013. Introduction
- Read: “W. E. B. Du Bois’ Hand-Drawn Infographics of African-American Life (1900)” The Public Domain Review, Source: Library of Congress.
- Watch Silas Munro, “W.E.B. Du Bois’s Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America”(Vimeo 1 Hour):
Complete
- Finish reading my introduction to you and respond with yours >> Discussion: Introductions
- Browse through the links posted here: >> Lesson/Inspiration
- Add your name and fill out the >> SimpleClassSurvey-DataExcelSheet for instructions see >> Survey Legend here.
- Bring color pencils (or color pens) to our next class 9/11/23.
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