Information is beautiful- PROJECT 1

The Sheep Market, an interactive drawing project
from David McCandless, author of the website and the book Information is Beautiful.

http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/

Many interesting projects on this website. The idea that information is beautiful provides the framework for our first project.

More articles and information about INFORMATION DESIGN
These readings from Graphic Design the New Basics by Ellen Lupton and Jennifer Cole

• Hierarchy Phillips

• Typographic Layers

• Modularity
Look at and read the first two Design Problems (links at the side or bottom). How to do them with illustrator? can you think that through?

• Diagrams


LOOK AROUND this commercial website linked HERE

LOOK AT THIS WEBSITE- MAPPING WORLDS

and finally check out the work of Nigel Holmes;
Here

• READ this pdf (download):
• READ this pdf (download):


• Watch this video:

• As homework for next week, come up with a few ideas to create maps or diagrams. Make three possible sketches on paper for how they could be arranged or represented.