Edgar Flavio Tanjung / 0378967
Information Design / Bachelor of Design (Hons) in Creative Media
Exercise 1&2
TABLE OF CONTENTS
INSTRUCTIONS
EXERCISE
Exercise 1 - Quantify Data
Before starting the exercise, we were first instructed to redesign an infographic with a bad design. To start, I looked for some infographics as my inspiration on how I could approach this exercise.
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| Fig 1.1 References / Week 1 |
I also looked for some poorly designed infographics, and after some time, I found this infographic that looks rather plain and lacked a theme/style in the visuals used.
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| Fig 1.2 Chosen Infographic / Week 1 |
I first started by laying out all the information. I realized afterwards though that the infographic I chose was a template-like design that had no real information in it. It instead has lorem ipsum- as its content. However, since I started working already, I chose to go through with it.
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| Fig 1.3 Process / Week 1 |
I then finished it with some tweaks, adjustments, and decorations, all with a consistent theme.
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| Fig 1.4 Final Infographic Redesign / Week 1 |
Afterwards, I started working on the first exercise. At first I couldn't think of what items I have a lot of. But then I remembered I had lots of coins I never used, left sitting in a coin pouch. I started by sorting out all the coins I have, categorizing them by value, color, size, and an extra category for older coins.
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| Fig 1.5 Categorizing Coins / Week 1 |
I then arranged and designed it into the following work below. I had to remove some 20 cent coins though since with the configuration below, I couldn't fit all of them in.
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| Fig 1.6 Exercise 1 Final / Week 1 |
Exercise 2 - L.A.T.C.H
The second exercise was to create an poster of Pokémons using the L.A.T.C.H (Location, Alphabet, Time, Category, Hierarchy) principles. I was a bit unsure on how to approach this exercise at first, so I started by figuring out what I want to categorize. I decided to do all the gyms from Pokémon Emerald for this exercise. To start, I looked for some references for my design direction and elements.
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| Fig 1.7 References / Week 2 |
Afterwards, I recreated some of the elements I will use in Illustrator. I made the Pokémon logo, the gym badges, and the Pokémon types of each gym leader.
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| Fig 1.8 Infographic Elements / Week 2 |
Then, I downloaded the pictures of the gym leaders with their signature Pokémons, and designed the infographic inspired by the aesthetics of Pokémon Emerald. I decided to use Photoshop for laying things out because I need to mask some elements. I then arranged them in order of how the battles are faced in game.
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| Fig 1.9 Infographic Process / Week 2 |
To finish it off, I finalized the infographic with some additional information, details, and layout adjustments.
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Fig 1.10 Exercise 2 Final / Week 2 |
FEEDBACK
Week 1 Make sure to have lots of coins to work on the categorization.
Week 2 -
REFLECTION
Although thinking making infographics might be easy, it actually took me some time to think of the best layout to fit in all the information I had. This was more apparent on the 2nd exercise, because I chose to challenge myself for the by choosing 8 subjects instead of the 4 most people are doing. It was a good practice nonetheless.