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Unit 11: Storytelling with Data
Dear Students, This week we embark on data visualizations. The reading by Nigel Holmes is old, but very high quality. Also, explore how far the field of visual communication has come, with interactive data visualizations. Explore… Read… Due… Browse … Continue reading
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BLOG: Personal Statistic Poster (Spreadsheet Data, Tables, Graphs)
(sorry this got posted a day early to the site!)PROCESS INSTRUCTIONS (time required: 3-4 hours over 2-3 days): You are tasked with designing a personal statistics poster as part of the Quantified Self Movement. RIMOSA has asked you to draft a … Continue reading
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10-1 Comparisons and Evolution Timelines
Dear Students,For Thursday’s sketch participation, I’m asking that you do two things. First, think about two items/ideas/people/works that inspire or excite you. Use a Venn diagram to compare and contrast how the two items embody the six qualities of art … Continue reading
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10-0 Artistic Journeys and Explanations
Dear Students,For Monday’s class, I’m not going to go over the slides. Instead, after announcements, we’ll jump straight to sketch participation to create an explanation graphics for a holiday. We’ll meet online to sketch together on the whiteboards. Focus on … Continue reading
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Unit 10: Pies, Charts and other Information Graphics
Explore… Read… Due… Can you identify the different information graphics here Watch : Eye Attraction about framing the shot Comic Frames: History of Comics Listen to NPR discuss the Challenger Disaster Krum: Ch. 6 McCloud: Ch. 7 & 9 BLOG: … Continue reading
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BLOG: Explanation Graphic
PROCESS INSTRUCTIONS (time required: 1 to 2 hours over a three day period):You are an expert in something. Use your first-hand experience or observation to create a unique visual explanation of your insight. Use annotation, storyboarding, sketching, and visual perception … Continue reading
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09-1 Flowcharts and Visual Explanations
Dear Students, For this week’s sketch participation on visual explanations, I’m asking you to sketch two flowcharts and also a scene to explain your expert observation of a scene. Again, because there is so much material, we’re going to meet … Continue reading
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09-0 Juxtapositions in Advertising
Dear Visual Artists, This week’s blogWork challenge consists of creating comic advertisements based on what excites you. We deviate from the regular readings to cover some tools for visualizing logic in order to design our blogWorks. These visualization tools have … Continue reading
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Unit 9: Decision Making Visualizations
Explore… Read… Due… Look at Word + Image Disasters. – when juxtapositions go wrong! Play with Venn Diagrams to sort shapes Play with process arrows Tutorial! How to make a Flow Chart (pdf) Paper: Mental Models and Human Reasoning (pdf) … Continue reading
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Comic Carnival Summary
Thanks for joining us at the Comic Carnival. After walking around the carnival, you handled an incident with the carnies. Congratulations to John and the class for their excellent stories and montages! The carnival was impressed with your knowledge of … Continue reading
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