dynamics of design exercise: week four
The long and short of it--there isn’t one. We will work on an image/graphic exercise next week (five), and will reduce the data visualization exercises (six and seven) into one that will be a part of your infographic for the project. So, hopefully a win-win.
That being said, you’ll still be thinking about visuals this week. I am modifying the collection/curation exercise this week to think more specifically about your projects.
What I’d like you to do is to modify your gathering for the week; instead of collecting anything of interest, look for examples of texts that can serve as models for what you want to make for the instructive, informative, and infographic resources you’re creating. They can be models in terms of content (i.e. they have to do with what you’ll be creating a resource about) or based on design/form (you like they way they look/communicate).
There is no set number of found texts, but you must have one for each type--instructive, informative, and infographic (so 3+). For the reflection/framing, you are simply describing what it is about each found text that is appealing to you as a model and how you would like it to inform what you design/write. If you would like, you can write these as annotation directly onto the individual posts themselves (found an interesting infographic image; save it/reblog it to make a post; add notes/a description about what it helps me visualize for my project).
