More infographics to check out

RTD 331 CLASS PROJECTS

The Sales of Zelda

Got games: Uses a vertical bar graph as the ground for icons that represent games.
Initial sketch

Simple use of colors, grouping of circles and similar drawings with critical differences makes this very beautiful and informative. 

This project is really a graph shape that shows few white squirrels in 1902, the most in 1942, and a receding amount by 2012. What is also clear is that, even without reading the numbers, there are ALOT of white squirrels in Olney. The artist also uses a colorful gradient in an effective way. 

This project was made by a student from Japan who wished to practice her drawing skills. Look at how the shadows are also shapes that have been modified.  The flower pattern in the background has been treated with a gradient too.  FIRST VERSION OF KIMONOS below.

This uses a grid to organize information about heart rate and different kinds of activity. The meditating figure was drawn by hand while tracing a bitmap image.- here is one of the early drawings. 

OTHER INFORMATIVE COMPOSITIONS FOUND ONLINE

This is organized around two large blocks that form the surface planes for the information about pronouns and gender. 

Self explanatory. (this might be a student project)

icons-spaceship ++

spaceship, refugee with kids, fracking drill (hate it)

Isotypes- Expressive icons of the everyday from the Bauhaus

MORE ISOTYPES
AND INFORMATION ABOUT THEM: HERE 

Iconoclasistas

These artists from Argentina use icons as the basis of their visual work about the distribution of social services to people in the city.
Go to this LINK AT  their website to discover many more information rich ICONs

Prisons versus schools: Prisoners versus Students- a map

This is a map that indicates the density of prisons and prisoners in each state. The title,
"The U.S. has more jails than colleges. Here’s a map of where those prisoners live." is a wee bit misleading as it doesn't show you the schools, just the prisons. We have to take their word on it that there are more jails that schools. Here is a screenshot of the map- it uses color shading and intensity to represent the statistics.

from the article:

There were 2.3 million prisoners in the U.S. as of the 2010 Census. It's often been remarked that our national incarceration rate of 707 adults per every 100,000 residents is the highest in the world, by a huge margin. Read the article HERE and see the interactive map. 

Painting with a vector Icon- Photoshop

you can take a little vector icon and paint with it.
if you start with a jpeg, you need to trace and expand it and get rid of any extra anchor points.
or you can make a little icon with illustrator, (or copy from web)

I took the chicago Loop icon Joe sent me, and first- traced (using color 16),
then "expanded" to let me get at individual anchor points.
then I selected and eliminated (using "A" Direct select tool) the white spaces in between the train routes.
YOu can see where i missed white.

Next> from windows menu drop down, Open up "SYMBOLS"
marquee around icon to select and Drag it into that symbols box. It will be added to whatever is there.

Next> using the spray paint looking thing in the tool box. (shortcut is "SHIFT +S")
Use the top tool- spray.
FIRST select your symbol from the symbol menu, then click on the artboard. Now you can "paint" with the icon, making a pattern.

2. To constrain this pattern in a shape, you will make a clipping mask. it is very easy. see the attached.
select the top layer: "shape to make clipping mask with"- it is a red oblong
Using the shift key-- SELECT BOTH the oblong, and the loop pattern beneath it.
Now hold down the "control" key- to get a drop down menu.
Release at "Make Clipping mask"
You will see the chicago loop pattern below will be constrained to the shape of the oblong.
Try this a few times, by copying some petals.
YOu can also draw a shape with the pen to constrain a symbol pattern.

(Joe, this is the solution if you want to fill your map shapes more with pattern.)
also Tony S., this might be fun for you; your bars could be patterns...made this way... check out other options below the spray paint)....

games and vectors

Information Design Readings

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.

Two more by Romare Beardon

These combine lines and planes of color with collaged photorealistic images. There is no sense of horizon or real space; all the elements are combined and juxtaposed as a composition.

Dynamic Graphics- Week 1

We talked in class about the word "dynamic" used to describe an image. I am copying here a definition of Dynamic.


dy·nam·ic/dīˈnamik/

Adjective: (of a process or system) Characterized by constant change, activity, or progress.

Noun: A force that stimulates change or progress within a system or process.

Synonyms: dynamics

You can imagine there is a degree of dynamism-- more or less. There is no measurement, but is about whether or not it makes your eyes and your emotions react in a way as if they are perceiving movement, anxiety, and speed. Think of the image of a rocket taking off.

Examine the following for different forms of dynamism.
Use these or other examples from the same artists as mattes to do your second dynamic image.



In the history of art, there have been movements when artists especially tried to represent the velocity of technological change.
For example, even to ride the train for people in the 1800s was very exciting feeling and even violent, because of the speed, and the loud noise and the irregular movement. Technological advancement was also experienced through the violence of World War 1, and artists tried to capture that in dynamic images--

See: Futurist Images HERE

RUSSULO, Luigi. 1911. The Revolt

Piet MONDRIAN, early 20th century

Guernica, by Pablo PICASSO. 1937

Guernica is a painting by Pablo Picasso. It was created in response to the bombing of Guernica, Basque Country, by German and Italian warplanes at the behest of the Spanish Nationalist forces, on 26 April 1937, during the Spanish Civil War. FROM WIKIPEDIA. MORE

"Blips and Ifs" by Stuart DAVIS, 1963-4

"Eggbeat" by Stuart DAVIS



Good discussion of art of Stuart DAVIS at this link

Romare BEARDON. American artist 1911-1988

Saul Bass 1920-1996

The Man with the Golden Arm

john haddock vector graphics

Civil Rights protesters attacked with firehoses

From John Haddock's Cartoon Violence series


Picnic Scene from the Sound of music

Saul Bass images

another techno themed gui history- with dates!

Saul Bass, filmmaker, animator and title sequence designer

"Saul Bass (May 8, 1920 – April 25, 1996) was an American graphic designer and filmmaker, but he is best known for his design on animated motion picture title sequences."



Bass designed title sequences for directors such as Preminger (Man with the Golden Arm, Scorcese (Casino), these notes are derived from Wikipedia

Psycho Title sequence
Also check out Casino (1995), in which he designs with very different technologies. Look for the similarities to his the work he did 40 years earlier.

Finally, check out "Why Man Creates" of which this is just a segment.

Illustrator Tutorials

Graphic Mania Website

Digital Foundation Text (wiki)

Digital Foundations: Introduction to Media Design with the Adobe Creative Suite integrates the formal principles of the Bauhaus Basic Course into an introduction to digital media production with the Adobe Creative Suite.
Textbooks and software manuals on today’s market do not include art and design history or visual principles. This book synthesizes historical examples and traditional studio foundation exercises into smart, well-paced software exercises. See it for yourself in Chapter 5, where we explore Illustrator's Color Picker through Joseph Albers’ color exercises.

Digital media texts about Adobe Creative Suite, whether they are “Bibles”, “For Dummies” or “Classroom in a Books”, focus on tools and production tips. Digital Foundations is the only textbook that teaches visual skills through production tools. Look at our Table of Contents. It is organized by visual topics, including symmetry, line art, tonal scale, elements of motion, and more. Digital Foundations is not specifically for dummies or classrooms. It was made for self-learners, artists, designers, as well as classroom applications. We wrote this book for our classrooms as well as for our parents!

The exercises in all twenty chapters have been tested and proven in our classrooms. We plan to use the book in multiple courses including foundations media design, introduction to graphic design, introduction to web design, and graphics communications.

-xtine & Michael