Information Design - Exercises
3.02.2025 - 17.02.2025 (Week 1 - Week 3)
Diane Sani Alexander Wan / 0378712
Information Design / Bachelor of Design (Hons) in Creative Media
Exercises 1-2INSTRUCTIONS
Exercise 1 - Quantify and Visualize Data
For this exercise we are supposed to quantify the objects that I chose. With the chosen object we need to organised based to what it can be sorted out as. My object is fuzzy coloured wires so I decided to sort them out based on colours as it is the most obvious thing seen. By doing this it will help me visualize better on the quantity data.
Fig 1.1 Laying it out.
I started off by organizing them by colour, so I can sort it out later. I counted each wire and there were 10 each expect for the white only had 11. There are 6 different colours in this pack.
Figure 1.2 Sorting out in colour.
I then wanted to do something different and shaped the wires a bit by creating circles to them. I can play around with them and create patterns that I can make with it.
Figure 1.3 Creating shapes with the wires.
Figure 1.4 Done creating the shapes.
I then played around with patterns that I can come up with. This one to me looked more like a flower so I put the colours in like rainbow order, but I don't think its really noticeable. But the overall story for this is the ways flowers can bloom from it being dark to white, to show a slight contrast.
Figure 1.5 Final work
In this exercise we were supposed to use information and turn them into a visual poster that uses all the LATCH principles in them. For my work I decided to go for a music festival poster, because I think it has all the principles of latch in them. I gathered the information I needed to start creating the LATCH poster.
L (Location): Sepang International Circuit
A (Alphabet): Number of artists performing
T (Time): Time it's going to start at so; at 6:30PM
C (Category): There are 2 days, May 23-24
H (Hierarchy): From first date to last date
I started off with a few sketches to see which layout I liked the most, so I did 4. I even looked at a few music festival references on the internet to help me get started.
Figure 2.1 Sketches for poster.
Digitisation
Before I moved forward, I collected a few references to help me get started. So I created a mood board to help. One thing that made it easy to read the artists is the big headline artists, another thing I observed is the fact that most of these posters are very colourful and have they're own theme that fits the type of festival they're holding.
Figure 2.2 References for infographic poster
The resolution for the poster is A4.
I decided to work on this poster on Adobe Illustrator as it is easier for me to use and create. I went for sunset music festival and made the background colour fit with the name of the festival.
Figure 2.3 Final L.A.T.C.H infographic poster
FEEDBACK
Week 1 / Exercise 1: The materials I used were fine, just had to find a good story to tell what I was showing.
Week 2 / Exercise 2: Making sure all the LATCH principles were in, like I wasn't sure on how to show the category or hierarchy part, but after some feedback, can just split it between 2 dates.
REFLECTION
Experience: At first I wasn't too sure about the class and didn't know much about information design or what it meant, but after a few exercises I gained a better understanding of what to do for the exercises that were given.
Observation: I made sure to understand the exercise first then looked at a few references on the internet before creating any of the exercises. They were a bit tough but it was a learning experience for me and I looked at some of my classmates work to help me move on the right track.
Findings: The LATCH exercise is going to help me create infographic posters for the next few assignments, so it has definitely helped me understand it better. Learning the specifics of each principle and how to apply it onto infographic posters.
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