Order of the Order

This article is interesting in the way that it talks about how people make order of things. Everyone does things differently and choose to organize differently. It gave the example of someone arranging their cd collection by the color of the cases. How they summed it up was that there are endless ways to make sense of the world.

reading 4 summary

This reading is basically about the process a designer should go through when working on a piece of information design. It describes the type of relationship you should have with the client, what type of contacts information to get, what you should show the client, and the process you should go through while designing the piece, which is very important. It also describes sitemaps, wireframes, and blueprints and what they should look like.

Crit notes from Thursday

The message was clear to everyone, here are the comments:

Change the colors on the ties of the men so they don't seem democrat and republican

have the first set of text stay on the screen longer

it may not be necessary to show the men going to work

have the men stay the same size and the buildings change size to make it look like they're walking

add something to the buildings such as windows or the work "work" to make it seem more like work

when the items are popping in at the end add some more to the left hand size such as a jet, yacht, etc.

To suggest:

- excitement at first

- then jealousy

- anger

- motivation

- all in a subdued sense

Who are...

Richard Saul Wurman: an architect and graphic designer from Philadelphia. He is a pioneer of making information understandable. We has written and designed over 80 books and created the TED conferences. He also created the ACCESS travel guide books that were simple and very effective. 

www.wikipedia.org/wiki/richard_saul_wurman

www.wurman.com

Nigel Holmes: was born in 1942 in England. He moved to New York in 1977 when he was hired at Time magazine to design "explanation graphics." He worked there for 16 years and then became a freelance designer, lecturer, and author of books on the subject. He started his own company and has written 6 books on the aspects of informatio

n design.

www.nigelholmes.com

www.

wikipedian.org/wiki/nigel_holmes

Edward Tufte: was born in 1942 in Kansas City, MO. After receiving a PhD from Yale he was hired by Princeton where he taught courses in political economy and data analysis. He also published 3 political sc

ience books. He now teaches statistics, information design, interface design, and political economy

 at Yale University. He is an expert at the presentation of information graphics such as charts and diagrams.

www.wikipedia.org/wiki/edward_tufte

www.edwardtufte.com

I think it is interesting that Edward Tufte is so influencial in information design and he didn't take the creative route in school or choice of beginning career path. Both Nigel Holmes and Richard Saul Wurman had creative backgrounds and chose the direction of information design. It feels like Edward Tufte was first interested in the actual information that the design would convey than the actual design itself.

Mood Board

Images, typefaces, colors, that inspired my storyboards

Reading 2 comment

Mine is more of a comment rather than a question. I never realized how many things could go into the category of information design, its a HUGE list! A lot of the examples that were pictured or mentioned in the reading I hadn't ever even included in the category of graphic design. I feel like it would be hard to design some of the examples because some of them seemed boring to me, but that was necessary to get the message across. I would try to add in other elements that maybe looked pretty, but were not necessary.

GET OUT THE VOTE story updated

Show a 1998 grad on the left hand side and a 2008 grad on the right hand side. Start off with them in grad robes and class of '08/'98 banner behind them. Then display the statistic. Go back to the 2 grads with briefcases and they're being handed a paycheck. Then show 2nd part of statistic. Go back to grads with the '98 grad in front of a nice house and the '08 grad in front of a drabby apartment. The '98 grad will have nice things pop in such as a car, big tv, dog, pool table, nice clothes, etc. The '08 grad will have bills popping in that he will be handing all his money to.