DESN 232 — RAPID VIZ I  |  FALL 2019  |  T/TH 4:00–6:45PM

P4 | INFORMATIONAL GRAPHICS

PROJECT OVERVIEW

Choose a subject you are familiar with (or as assigned) and attempt to communicate it, or how to do it, to others through a synthesis of hand-lettered text and illustration drawings. Drawings must describe about 5 to 8 different aspects of the subject matter. The aspects are ranked as to their importance to create a hierarchy and the hierarchy dictates the emphasis (both written and drawn) that each aspect receives.

3- 11x17" (or similar) sheets of paper (or other as defined by instructor/project) are laid out to create a presentation of the subject matter. All 3 pages must work together, but also separately.

Students must use as many different info-graphic techniques as possible and use them effectively. May be black and white (Teubner) OR incorporate color
per instructor.

Take a process you know well, or would like to understand better and illustrate how to do it using graphic illustration technique.

Some past "Interiors / Architectural" Ideas:

  • How to reupholster a chair
  • How to apply wallpaper
  • How install solar panels
  • How install kitchen cabinets

DELIVERABLES

  1. 3 - 11x17" digital prints or all traditional on 14x17" bond or marker paper.
  2. Portrait format.
  3. Include a graphic heading
    title that is informative as to
    what this process is, such as
    "How To ....", and unifying graphic system (framing)

REFERENCES AND INSPIRATION

Sketching The Basics, Chapter 7.4, pp 188, 189

See Graphic Arrows

PROCESS

Airplane Food Supply Chain. Part 1 Study

Airplane Food Supply Chain. Part 2 Refined Development

PHASE 1
RESEARCH AND IDEATION

Determine which assignment you want to tackle.

Research your material! Source reference images as needed.

Generate rough drafts to determine important, critical, usefully descriptive views to describe your process.

You MUST have human anatomy, hands, full body, etc. in your drawings.

Incorporate graphic arrows as needed.

Strong, graphic line will be most successful, refine your layout and refine
your drawings into a clean and clearly descriptive layout.

Utilize a multitude of scale relationships in your illustrations, as needed.

You cannot draw everything! Be CRITICAL as to what steps warrant a drawing. You MUST describe your process with a minimum of 5 steps, but limit the steps to no more than 10.

Feel free to use photos of people, babies, anatomy, etc for underlays, especially if you struggle with drawing human anatomy. It's ok.

 

Examples

Preliminary, rough ideation and exploration of views and ideas.

 

 

PHASE 2
REVISION AND FINALIZATION

Work out your drawings and narrative. What are you trying to communicate and are your drawings achieving that?

Document your drawings and incorporate into a well organized, clear communication piece in Photoshop.

Distracting or unnecessarily decorative or distracting graphics WILL result in grade reduction.

Include descriptive annotations as needed.

 

Examples

Preliminary presentation study drawings by Val Margerum, photographed in classroom,
no image adjustments.

STUDENT EXAMPLES

This "How to Make a Mai Tai by David Bañuelos is three sheets of paper combined in Photoshop to create this one continuous image.

Final presentation by Val Margerum, Photoshop work by LaForte. Summer 2015

How to Rig a Spinning Rod, by Ave Barr. Summer 2015

How to Make Soap (Soaping), by Lynn Krusell

PHOTOSHOP CLEANUP

Below is a highly graphic, black and white only approach which challenges students to focus on contrast and figure/ground relationships in narrative communication. Below, the same image cleaned up in Photoshop is ready for web or print delivery. Always clean up your work, correct as many errors as you can.

Watch how the illustration
image above was cleaned-up
in Photoshop

https://youtu.be/ijtabfuQ1WI

STUDENT LEARNING OBJECTIVES (SLOs)

  1. Challenge students to make choices and develop narrative drawings,
  2. Challenge students to commit to strong line development,
  3. Challenge student's to make critical choices,
  4. Challenge student's imagination.

GRADING AND EVALUATION RUBRIC

The following Rubric applies in assessment of the student's work product, presentation, and/or process:

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* Estimate only. See instructor and calendar for specific due dates. Summer Session schedule is more compressed with one week equal to approximately two and half semester weeks.

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