Ahmed Yaman Ibrahim (0341119)

6/1/20 - 24/1/20 (Week 1 - Week 7) Ahmed Yaman Ibrahim (0341119) Information Design Final Project LECTURE NOTES Final Project: Animated Infographic Week 1 - Week 7 Our final assignment is a group project that we were to work on for the duration of the semester. We were shown a list of topics and based on the topic that was given to us, we were to make an animated infographic for it, complete with sound and voiceover. My group consisted of Kyra (leader), me, Mia, Jing Wen and Farissa, and the topic given to us was "Water." INSTRUCTIONS Final Project We spent the first two classes brainstorming and narrowing down the topic to something we can work with. We decided to go with "water pollution" as the general topic of the infographic and began researching. We also figured out our group roles: Kyra - Storyboard and animation Me - Designing assets and animatics Mia - Designing assets Farissa - Research and animation Jing Wen - Sou...

21/1/20 - 24/1/20 (Week 3 - Week 7) Ahmed Yaman Ibrahim (0341119) Information Design Individual Projects LECTURE NOTES Project 1: Recipe infographic Week 3 - Week 7 Project 1 consists of creating an A3 infographic poster for a food recipe of our choosing. Lecture 2: Animation Week 3 - Week 7 Project 2 involves creating an animation (max one min.) or looping gif of the recipe. INSTRUCTIONS PROJECTS Project 1: Infographic poster I chose tiramisu for my recipe as I felt it wasn't overly complicated while also not being too simple to fit into a one-minute timeframe for the animation. I looked up a few recipes online to figure out the most common elements in the recipe and began sketching how I could lay out the poster. Fig. 1.1: Project 1 (Layout sketches) I then moved to Illustrator to visualize the design better as I went along creating it. I decided I'd try an isometric design for the tiramisu illustration, so I created a basic i...

6/1/20 - 19/2/20 (Week 1 - Week 7) Ahmed Yaman Ibrahim (0341119) Information Design FLIP Topics LECTURE NOTES FLIP Topics consist of the students doing research on the given topics in groups and presenting our findings in class. The topics for each FLIP presentation were provided in Google Classroom. Topic 1: Manuel Lima's 9 Directives Topic 2: Saul Wurman's L.A.T.C.H. Topic 3: Miller's Law - Chunking Topic 4 & 5: Types of infographics and the online tools used to create them INSTRUCTIONS FLIP TOPICS FLIP 1: Manuel Lima's 9 Directives (Week 1) FLIP 2: Saul Wurman's L.A.T.C.H. (Week 2) FLIP 3: Miller's Law: Chunking (Week 3) FLIP 4 & 5: Types of infographics and their online tools (Week 7) FEEDBACK & REFLECTIONS Flip 1 Overall the lecturers were quite happy with our presentation, and said we did well for our first topic. I noticed while researching for the topic that ...

6/1/20 - 15/1/20 (Week 1 - Week 2) Ahmed Yaman Ibrahim (0341119) Information Design Exercises LECTURE NOTES Lecture 1: Quantifying and visualizing data 6/1/20 - 8/1/20 (Week 1) In our first week, we were given a briefing of the subject as well as the first exercise, which was to learn how to quantify and visualize data by using buttons or LEGO bricks. Lecture 2: L.A.T.C.H. 13/1/20 - 15/1/20 (Week 2) During the second week, we were taught the how to apply the L.A.T.C.H. principles when organizing information. INSTRUCTIONS EXERCISE Quantifying and visualizing data (Week 1) For this exercise, we used LEGO bricks of different colors and sizes, and arranged them on paper in a way that could be quantified and visualized. I was given a set of yellow and orange LEGO bricks and I had to figure out a way to arrange them, so I first took note of how many there were for each size; I counted them by the number of studs on the bricks. Fig. 1.1: Taking note...