Information Design Exercises

Week 1- 7

Rhyanne Cyrene Lowe
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Bachelor of Design (Honours) in Creative Media

Information Design Exercises

LECTURES

WEEK 1-  

Importance of Visual content

• For education purposes
• The brain understands and processes information through visuals better and faster

WEEK 2 

Animation vs. Motion Graphics

Animation: 

• Images that create the illusion of movement
• 4 types 
• 2D animation
• 3D animation
• Stop motion
• Motion graphics

Motion Graphics

• Not driven by characters or storylines
• Focuses on the ability to move graphics 
• Types
• Text animation - Kinetic typography
• Graphics animation- Graphic animation
• Character animation- wiggling
• Chart visualization

Kinetic Typography

•  Word by word
• Every word has its own animation
• Animated paragraph 

INSTRUCTIONS

EXERCISE 1- Quantify Data 

For our first exercise, we were asked to create a visual infographic using quantifiable things where we can then sort them out by categories. I chose to use my father's collection of coins from around the world as they differ in shape and size which were fascinating to me. From here I sorted them out into Polygons, Flowers, Squares, Annulus, Two Tones, Bigs, and Minis. Also counting the total for each.

fig1.0 Exercise 1

EXERCISE 3- L.A.T.C.H

L- Location

A- Alphabet

T- Time

C- Category

H- Hierarchy

I decided to create an Infographic for the game Genshin Impact with the Game location; Liyue, Five-star characters while categorising them by type of element.

EXERCISE 4 - Redesign Infographic

In this exercise, we were asked to redesign a bad infographic using our preferred infographic program online. I chose to do an informational infographic and came across a 10 step infographic for ArkBound, a book publishing company. The layout looked messy without proper hierarchy so I chose to redesign this in Canva.

fig 3.0 Original Infographic

Referring to the article this infographic was for, I cleaned up the information based on the original while using the appropriate illustrations to further convey the information stated. I also chose to use the blue and green colour scheme from their logo. 

fig 3.1 Redesigned Infographic

Before & After Comparison

Program used: Canva

Pros: Easy to access, Has templates

Cons: Lack of design elements, Not many features for a non-premium user

FLIP 1 & 4 Classroom Activity