Week 2:

Studio Activity: Infographic Planning

As a group, we allocated data-sets to each individual and we brainstormed description words together. I then chose specific words from each data-set and used Adobe Capture to create a colour palette.

Faculty (Hazel):

• Society
• Contribution
• University
• Interaction 

• Community
• Public
• Division

1010 (Esme):

• Design
• Collaboration
• Planning
• Architecture

• Community
• Student
• Communication
• Organisation
• Workload
• Stress
• Creativity

Food (Tracey):

• Survival
• Nourishment 

• Convenient 
• Gluttony 
• Diversity
• Culture
• Colours
• Appetising
• Commodity
• Aromatic
• Abundant
• Junk

Transport (Harry):

• Convenience 
• Impactful
• Infrastructure 

• Chaotic 
• Dominating
• Inevitable 
• Predictable 
• Abundance
• Discord
• Disarray 
• Harmony
• Interconnected

Weather (Gab):

• Erratic
• Sporadic
• Relaxing
• Forecast
• Temperate

• Unpredictable
• Ever-changing
• Extreme

Although colour swatches were done from images, the group decided to be inspired by the Online Tutorial, screenshotting an existing design from Instagram and creating a colour palette from that image. I found an image on @harvardurbandesign and created colour swatches from that, which we eventually used for our group infographic.

On Site Activity: 

Our site was explored to identify examples of various elements and principles of design used in the world around us. 

Shape (geometric) and Alignment

Texture

Contrast and Colour

Repetition

Lines

Proximity and Scale

Texture

Pattern and Contrast

Texture

Lines and Repetition

Proximity and Repetition

Infographic Group Assessment:

My contribution:

Panorama: