Information Design - Exercise
Information Design
03.2.2025 - 21.3.2025
Johnny Lam Wee Zhe (0363436)
Bachelor of Design in Creative Media
EXERCISE 1 - QUANTIFIABLE INFORMATION
For the first exercise of information design, we are to buy sort-able objects
such colored candies, clips, lego brick etc and sort them out into several
stages of graphs. For this particular project, I am using skittles to sort
them into posters.
Once I have gather all of the skittle onto a large A3 paper, I sorted each of
them into different color and here is what I have gathered.
Fig 1.1 Sorted Data
Once I have sorted them, I rearranged them into different shapes to ensure it
looks much more neater. This also the stage where I realize that the candy is
arrange similarly to blade of a wind turbine, so I decide to do the chart
related to wind turbine.
Fig 1.2 Arranged Data
Once I have arranged them neatly to one another, the next stage is to
present them visually on the A3 graph. This is also the part where are start
to use marker to write down the categories for each of the data. I sort them
depending on the color of the candies.
Fig 1.3 Presented Visually
Then finally the last stage of creating informational graph is to explain it
with a story. In order to achieve this, I decide to arrange the candy in a
wind turbine shape and rearrange some text.
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Fig 1.4 Explain with a Story
EXERCISE 2 - L.A.T.C.H INFO GRAPHIC POSTER
For this particular exercise, we are tasked with creating a poster and
arranged the data according to something called the LATCH theory. LATCH theory
provides guidance on how to organize data into a structure that makes sense.
LATCH stands for Location, Alphabet, Timeline, Category and Hierarchy.
The first step of doing this assignment is to look for data to be turned into
a poster. Eventually, I found this particular website:
For this particular subject, the data will be organized using hierarchy,
particularly the popularity as indicated in the website.
The next thing to do is to draw some sketches of the potential posters. Here
is what I have drawn:
Fig 1.1 Poster Sketch 1
Fig 1.2 Poster Sketch 2
I am still undecided on which design I should pick for the poster so I
digitalize the ones I believe to be suitable for the potential poster as well
as adding the actual data of the poster. I have selected three of the design
and fit them according to the size requirement.
Fig 2. Digitalized Poster
The color are random and has no coherent order so I look up on the color
scheme in order to have it look much present. I use this website to find the
color scheme:
Specifically, I choose this color scheme:
Fig 3. Color Palette
I select the third poster design and then apply color palette and graphics and
it become the final result.
FINAL RESULTS
Fig 3. Final Result
REFLECTION
In this stage of the module, I believe that the whole lesson of this exercises
is how to handle the data sorting and arrange them in a structure and order
for a better readability for the user. After a few look at my final results of
both exercises, I find that the design is not of satisfactory and I feel that
something is missing from the design. If I were to take a guess, I believe
what is missing is the interest factor for the poster. Although I have
previous experience with poster design, it has been awhile and it could take a
bit to warm up on poster design. Perhaps I can revisit my previous blog about
poster design and apply it to my new project.
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