Information Design

I had the awesome opportunity to take Information Design (DAI 523) with Prof. Trogu. If you’re a DAI student, I highly recommend this class. It’s a great introduction to info design. We learned how to gather information (through researching and web scraping), organize the data and the various forms of visualizations. If you’re new to this area of design, check out the site Many Eyes to to get your feet a little wet. Also, if you want to see some really rad examples of info design, check out Good Magazine, Information is Beautiful, and Info Aesthetics.

As you might have remembered, I posted a concept map I did in the beginning of the semester. More has been done since then:

This was the final assignment, which was my favorite (and scale wise, the biggest) project of the entire semester. Aside from the fact that we finally got to design information, I liked the fact that it entailed designing a large poster (34 x 44 in) that can be folded down to 8.5 x 11. I really would have loved to have been able to design more large scale pieces at SF State. Yes it’s a little costly, but I enjoyed (and want more of) the challenge of designing at a larger scale.
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Wharf Portraits: Process Book & Maps

The following are (iPhone) snapshots of a process book and some maps for a project in my advance graphic design class. For this project we were put into teams of three and given a neighborhood in SF to explore. As a team we were to explore the neighborhood and document everything and anything that caught our eyes, ears and even taste buds. Then as individuals, we got to decide on what we wanted to focus on for that particular neighborhood.

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