Class 06 – Visual Information

Assignment 1

Personal history diagram

Lecture

• Common visual attributes
• Visual semantics
• Creative examples

Workshop

• Illustrator introduction

Exercise

• Form a group of 4 to 5 students.
• Identify a stranger in the campus.
• Follow the stranger for a few minutes.
• Note down the places he/she visits with details.
• Create a journal map of the event and the description of the stranger.

Reference

Flowing Data

Information Aesthetics

Visual Complexity

Simple Complexity

Cool Infographics

Visualizing Economics

Edward Tufte

Dead man on campus title sequence

Powerpoint presentation material