Information Design: Exercises

13.01.2023 - 05.02.2023 (Week 1 - Week 4)
Azriq Anwar Bin Saprudin / 0353272
Information Design / Bachelor of Design (Hons) in Creative Media
Exercises

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LECTURES

Flip Topic 1

Different Types of Infographic and Online Tools



Flip Topic 2

Saul Wurman's L.A.T.C.H




Flip Topic 3

Miller's Law Chunking



Flip Topic 4

Manuel Lima's 9 Directives Manifesto

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INSTRUCTIONS



Exercise 1: Quantity and Visualize Data

Since I have coin laying around the house, doing this exercise was fun. I played around with how I wanted to organize the data. 
Starting from left to right, I labelled it as the year the coin was manufactured, from the 1970s to current time. And then, from top to bottom, I organized the coins depending on their size; from small to big.

Fig 1.1 My Coin Collection

Exercise 2: L.A.T.C.H

For this exercise, we given several options to choose from to work on the infographic. I chose Pokemon because it's very familiar for me. For the grouping system, I chose:

Hierarchy: Stats
Category: Pokemon Types

Location: Regions

Alphabetical: Pokemon Names

I drew our the the map to create an environment that suits all the Pokemons that I chose depending on their types. 

Fig 1.2 Final Pokemon Infographic

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REFLECTION

Experience
Doing the tasks that were given which was data collecting and gathering the elements was fun. Getting the information all together and placing them into one place was interesting as you get to see information clearer than it actually is.

Observation
The exercises that were done was very fun and straightforward as explained by our lecturer. I saw that there were more ways to express basic information than I thought.

Findings
Looking around places with infographics laying around the walls, I never realised how the infographics were arranged in a very reasonable way. Each component of an infographic is placed accordingly.