Information Design - Project 1

19/01/2021 - 05/02/2021 ( Week 03 - Week 05) 

Avery Ong Xuan Ting / 0344462
Bachelor of Design (Hons) in Creative Multimedia / Information Design
Project 1

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INSTRUCTION

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PROJECT 1

Instructable Infographic Poster

Week 3 ( 19/01/2021 )

We are required to design an A3 infographic poster for a recipe taken from

Pasta Grannies @ https://www.youtube.com/user/pastagrannies/videos

We need to select one video, breakdown and chunk the preparation and cooking process into an

instructable poster. I had selected How to Make Supplì, or Cheese Stuffed Rice Balls by Pasqualina.

fig. 1.0 ; Selected Video

I tried to jot down every steps of the making process from the video.

fig. 1.1 ; making process

Week 4 ( 26/01/2021 )

For today's class, everyone need to share our project 1 progression during the class:

- Ming map / Breakdown of video

- Chunked info / Processes

- Design breakdown: colors, motifs

- Narrative: visual styles

I selected the color scheme because I think it was suitable to the Suppli and it is Roman style. However, the references I found was the selected visual styles.

fig. 1.2 ; design breakdown

Week 4 ( 29/01/2021 )

I sketched out my design roughly and show it to Ms. Anis. She prefer the second design because it looks nicer than others. Therefore, I will continue with my second design.

fig. 1.3 ; sketches

Week 5 ( 02/02/2021 )

Firstly, I draw out all the ingredients and tools in Photoshop. After that, I started to design their position, colors and style following the references I had chosen.

fig. 1.4 ; first progression

After satisfying with my design, I write down all the steps that I had jot down from the video. At first, my idea is to use more drawing elements to chunk the ingredients and cooking process rather than just using words to explain. But I found that too many elements was quite complicated. Therefore, I chose the wrote down all the cooking process short and clearly.

fig. 1.4 ; second progression

After writing down all the process, I added background colors to make it more interesting.

fig. 1.5 ; third progression

I found that I forgot to add the title for the poster. However, I decrease the size of all the elements and added title on the top of the poster. I chose ITC Garamond Std font style for this poster because I think it was very suitable. I followed Rome flag's color for the title because I wanted to present this snack is from Rome. Other than that, I also downloaded a image of Rome and added to the background.

fig. 1.6 ; forth progression

I feel that I should draw out the grandma because this cooking process was taught by her, so I screenshot her picture form the video and tried to draw out her face using pen tool. However, I tried to design it as a logo to put it into my poster. I was very happy with it.

fig. 1.7 ; grandma

Below is my final outcome. I sent it to Ms. Anis to chose either with or without the grandma logo is better because I think both of it also quite nice for me.

fig. 1.8 ; final outcome

Lecturer's Feedback:

The poster with grandma logo has nice flow, from title to process. I can start to work on project 2.