Information Design for Curious Readers

Information design for curious readers

“And we reached the end of the course! In this last video we go through the contents that we have shared together and we highlight the most important points of this schematic path. All this will serve to develop your final project: The visualized biography of the character you have chosen:

• will start investigating about the life of that person, editing the data of you are finding and putting together an idea of what are the most important things you want to tell.

• make the first graphic statements with simple textual forms and you will combine them to achieve greater visual complexity.

• create color, graphic and typographic palettes to display the information in a synthetic way.

• develop codes so that an active reader can consult the outline of the biography and decide how to show the references to those codes.

• Finally, you will adjust your decisions with the analysis guide that we proposed so that you can have a critical view of the production itself and improve what you think is necessary.

We hope you enjoyed it as much as we did. We would like to awaken the spirit of the disobedient explorer who lives in each one and invite them to participate actively in the forum, a place to continue learning from others and ourselves and take advantage of being part of this community of creatives. We read! ”

Partial transcription of the video

“Hi. We reached the end of our course and it was time to do a review of everything that we were visiting. At first we introduced ourselves, shared our influences ... Then we saw what is the schematic, reviewed the display modes ... We cut the levels iconicity. Within the training zone , we saw different types of textual forms and we started to analyze them Then we faced the final project. We saw how to investigate the contents and edit them put together a cut ... Then we saw the general organization ... We also focused on the representation of time and space ... Also how work in layers allow...”

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Course summary for: Information Design for Curious Readers

• Level: Intermediate
• 98% positive reviews (100)
• 2338 students
• 4 units
• 15 lessons (1h 49m)
• 14 downloads

• Category

  Design

• Software

  Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop

• Areas

  Communication, Infographics, Information Design