The Information Sage
An excellent article about Edward Tufte. Please read!
Assignments for 5.5
Please watch:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETdXN8nt_ww&feature=related
Note that there are six videos of about 15 minutes each.
The class has been divided into two teams. Please work together to develop some preliminary sketches to review during the next class.
Challenge: How do we tell people of the future (perhaps 100,000 years from now) NOT to disturb this site? What kind of signage/symbols or series of symbols would function or communicate best. Should you use verbal language or strictly visual? Looking forward to seeing some astonishing ideas.
Assignments for 4.28
Assignment Two: Track the Same Event Over a Period of Time. Please track something new You could document your meals for a week. You can track another routine. Whatever you decide to track, I want you to document it three different ways using photography and/or information graphics like charts, graphs, maps etc.
Revise Assignment One—Keeping Track: Document Something You Own or Collect
Please read Chapter 5 in Information Design (Jacobson).
and “Micro/Macro Readings” from Envisioning Information (Tufte).
United States vs. World Gas Prices
Honey Bees
Grand Taxonomy of Rap Names
Illustrious Omnibus of Superpowers From PopChart Labs via Wired
One of my students just won the Good Magazine Recipe Re-design Challenge!
Here is what Judge Wylie Dufresne—chef at wd~50 and the creator of incredible edible egg shells—said about Jessie’s entry: Grandma Viv’s Poppyseed Torte
. Dufresne writes:
Jessie Krier nailed the assignment. Her submission was not only visually compelling but also successfully satisfied the basic requirements of a recipe: It showed the reader exactly how to cook the dish. Her graphic step-by-step illustration managed to translate an otherwise intimidating technique—pie crust—into a totally doable task. And her handwriting and drawings added a personal touch to the finished recipe. Above all, though, this format could be applied to virtually any dish, to great effect.
Congratulations Jessie!!!
Population of the Dead
Love Will Tear Us Apart Again
