infographics (week 5)

We will be finishing up our section about typography on Tuesday of this week, and uploading our work to our portfolio.  Some of the projects look great, and others are fine-tuning their work to the point where it meets the student's expectations.  Once we have these projects turned in, we are going to move on to the world of infographics or information graphics.  We will look at some examples of how they are used today, we will do some practice activities together, then we will work on our infographic.  Students will need to research a topic, record their sources of information, sketch out a layout to organize their data, then will create their infographic on the computer.  They need to include the sources appropriately on their project.  This project is an important topic in graphic design, but also covers the standard that deals with ethics and free use in the work place.  By giving credit to where they found their information, they are telling a story with their design, but are giving credit to the researchers who found the information.