Information Design// Exercises

4/1/22-21/1/22- Week 1-3

Chan Siew Ni #0352518
Bachelors of Design in Creative Media

Information Design// Exercises

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INSTRUCTIONS 

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LECTURES

Week 1

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Week 2

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Week 3

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Week 4

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EXERCISES

Exercise 01: Quantify Data

Week 1 4/1/22-Week 2 14/1/22

Task: We have to quantify(count) our chosen items and arrange it into a presentable charts or layout. We have to keep it simple and the most important part is to deliver accurate information.

I decided to choose some beads that comes with different colors. I started to arrange it based on their color. 

Figure 1: beads

Figure 1.1: Beads after arrange 

Figure 1.2: Final arrangement 

Figure 1.3: Final Outcome, 7/1/22

Exercise 02: L.A.T.C.H 

Week 2 11/1/22 -Week 3 21/2/22

Task: Organize a group of information into a visual poster that combined and utilizes the LATCH principles (min. 4)

Visual Research

Figure 2: Pokemon Infographics Poster sources from Google

Figure 2.1: Pokemon Infographic poster sources from Lecturer's slide (senior's artwork)

Work Progress

My idea is to divide a page in 4 columns and each column represent a type of Pokemon (Grass, Ice, Fire, Ground). Then, I will use Adobe Illustrator to draw out 4 different types of scene/environment.

Figure 2.2: work progress on making pokeball 

Figure 2.3: Work progress on drawing 'Grass' type scene/environment 

Figure 2.4: work progress on drawing scenes/environments 

Figure 2.5-2.8: Work progress on tracing the type icon

Figure 2.9: first draft, 14/1/22

Then, after using Adobe Illustrator to illustrate the types and also the pokeball. I use Adobe Photoshop to make composition of the Pokemon characters. I try to find characters that are in the same generation. At the end, I choose generation iii.

Figure2.10: work progress on composition 

Figure 2.11: work progress on composition characters 

When I am working on the position, I feel like this artboard size is not very suitable so I went back Adobe Illustrator to try 2048pixels x 2048 pixels 

Figure 2.12: work progress on creating a new scene/environment(2048px*2048px)

Then, I export it to Adobe Photoshop and working on composition (again..)

Figure 2.13: work progress on composition 

After that, I also added a circle behind each characters. 

Figure 2.14: work progress on composition 

Figure 2.15: work progress on adding characters' name

Size: 2048pixels x 2048pixels 

Figure 2.16: Final Submission of exercise 2 L.A.T.C.H

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REFLECTIONS 

From exercise 1, I have learned to sort out the elements that I have and re-arranged it to a composition that can clearly see the numbers of elements.

From exercise 2, I learned to sort elements based on L.A.T.C.H principles, I sort them based on their types , hierarchy of evolution and also living environment. I think that it was a effective ways to arrange information that we got.