INTRODUCTORY PRESENTATION:TOOLS AND KEYWORDSPLAN601E VERBAL AND VISUAL: INFORMATION GRAPHICS (SESSION 1)

INFORMATION GRAPHICS = TOOLS FOR VISUAL COMMUNICATION

Do you want to make a COMPARISON?

ISOTYPE SECTION SUPERGRAPHIC

NETWORK MAP MATRIXCONTINUUM DIAGRAM

FLOW CHART CYCLE DIAGRAM

GRAPH CHART DOT DENSITY

Do you want to show a PROCESS?

Do you want to show a RELATIONSHIP?

Do you want to explain a CONCEPT?

INFORMATION GRAPHICS = SHOWING CONTEXT VISUALLY

INFORMATION GRAPHICS = VISUAL AND NARRATIVE HIERARCHY

ALTERNATIVE DATA MAPPING STRATEGIES

The Detroit Collaborative Design Center invited students at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design (where I was cross-registered) to produce a set of maps for a forthcoming publication aimed at visualizing undderrecognized geographic patterns in the city’s built form, history, culture and politics. The publication is to be inexpensively produced and distributed freely to city residents in an effort to counter an overabundance of discouraging and incomplete data on population and income loss. My approach began with Harvard’s 2000 Social Capital Community Benchmark Survey, a general conclusion

of which was that measures of social capital decreased nationwide with reported income. Knowing anecdotally that, in the absence of traditional civic structure, many Detroiters are well-connected to other less official groups, I investigated the robustness of the trend for the Survey’s Detroit sample. Using GIS, I mapped respondents’ group memberships by reported income and further disaggregated responses to reveal uneven correlations between the two variables. I produced a series of illustrative diagrams to convey the differences between responses both quantatitively and qualitatively.

EXPANDING USE OF GIS TO PRODUCE REPRESENTATIONS OF DETROIT, ITS PATTERNS, ASSETS AND POTENTIALS

ALTERNATIVE DATA MAPPING STRATEGIES

The Detroit Collaborative Design Center invited students at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design (where I was cross-registered) to produce a set of maps for a forthcoming publication aimed at visualizing undderrecognized geographic patterns in the city’s built form, history, culture and politics. The publication is to be inexpensively produced and distributed freely to city residents in an effort to counter an overabundance of discouraging and incomplete data on population and income loss. My approach began with Harvard’s 2000 Social Capital Community Benchmark Survey, a general conclusion

of which was that measures of social capital decreased nationwide with reported income. Knowing anecdotally that, in the absence of traditional civic structure, many Detroiters are well-connected to other less official groups, I investigated the robustness of the trend for the Survey’s Detroit sample. Using GIS, I mapped respondents’ group memberships by reported income and further disaggregated responses to reveal uneven correlations between the two variables. I produced a series of illustrative diagrams to convey the differences between responses both quantatitively and qualitatively.

EXPANDING USE OF GIS TO PRODUCE REPRESENTATIONS OF DETROIT, ITS PATTERNS, ASSETS AND POTENTIALS

ALTERNATIVE DATA MAPPING STRATEGIES

The Detroit Collaborative Design Center invited students at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design (where I was cross-registered) to produce a set of maps for a forthcoming publication aimed at visualizing undderrecognized geographic patterns in the city’s built form, history, culture and politics. The publication is to be inexpensively produced and distributed freely to city residents in an effort to counter an overabundance of discouraging and incomplete data on population and income loss. My approach began with Harvard’s 2000 Social Capital Community Benchmark Survey, a general conclusion

of which was that measures of social capital decreased nationwide with reported income. Knowing anecdotally that, in the absence of traditional civic structure, many Detroiters are well-connected to other less official groups, I investigated the robustness of the trend for the Survey’s Detroit sample. Using GIS, I mapped respondents’ group memberships by reported income and further disaggregated responses to reveal uneven correlations between the two variables. I produced a series of illustrative diagrams to convey the differences between responses both quantatitively and qualitatively.

EXPANDING USE OF GIS TO PRODUCE REPRESENTATIONS OF DETROIT, ITS PATTERNS, ASSETS AND POTENTIALS

ALTERNATIVE DATA MAPPING STRATEGIES

The Detroit Collaborative Design Center invited students at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design (where I was cross-registered) to produce a set of maps for a forthcoming publication aimed at visualizing undderrecognized geographic patterns in the city’s built form, history, culture and politics. The publication is to be inexpensively produced and distributed freely to city residents in an effort to counter an overabundance of discouraging and incomplete data on population and income loss. My approach began with Harvard’s 2000 Social Capital Community Benchmark Survey, a general conclusion

of which was that measures of social capital decreased nationwide with reported income. Knowing anecdotally that, in the absence of traditional civic structure, many Detroiters are well-connected to other less official groups, I investigated the robustness of the trend for the Survey’s Detroit sample. Using GIS, I mapped respondents’ group memberships by reported income and further disaggregated responses to reveal uneven correlations between the two variables. I produced a series of illustrative diagrams to convey the differences between responses both quantatitively and qualitatively.

EXPANDING USE OF GIS TO PRODUCE REPRESENTATIONS OF DETROIT, ITS PATTERNS, ASSETS AND POTENTIALS

ALTERNATIVE DATA MAPPING STRATEGIES

The Detroit Collaborative Design Center invited students at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design (where I was cross-registered) to produce a set of maps for a forthcoming publication aimed at visualizing undderrecognized geographic patterns in the city’s built form, history, culture and politics. The publication is to be inexpensively produced and distributed freely to city residents in an effort to counter an overabundance of discouraging and incomplete data on population and income loss. My approach began with Harvard’s 2000 Social Capital Community Benchmark Survey, a general conclusion

of which was that measures of social capital decreased nationwide with reported income. Knowing anecdotally that, in the absence of traditional civic structure, many Detroiters are well-connected to other less official groups, I investigated the robustness of the trend for the Survey’s Detroit sample. Using GIS, I mapped respondents’ group memberships by reported income and further disaggregated responses to reveal uneven correlations between the two variables. I produced a series of illustrative diagrams to convey the differences between responses both quantatitively and qualitatively.

EXPANDING USE OF GIS TO PRODUCE REPRESENTATIONS OF DETROIT, ITS PATTERNS, ASSETS AND POTENTIALS

Size / Scale Color Line Weight

INFORMATION GRAPHICS = EXPLAINING THROUGH VISUAL DIFFERENCES

INFORMATION GRAPHICS = MAKING VISUAL COMPARISONS

INFORMATION GRAPHICS = USING GRIDS

Leading the eye. Rule of thirds.

COURSE STRUCTURE

WK.

1

2

3

4

5

TOPICS

Introductory Discussion

Single Dimension ComparisonsPrinciples of Graphic Design

Procedural / Temporal SettingsVisual Reasonsing (Tufte)

Multi-dimensional ComparisonsLayout for Print and Screen

Constructing a Visual NarrativeStory-boarding

DEMO

Fact-finderCreative SuitePhoto-shop Techniques

Charts / Graphs with Illustrator

Flow-charts / Timelines with Illustrator

Continuum Diagram / Matrix in Illustrator and Indesign

Formatting and Layout with Indesign

ASSIGNMENT

Data collectionPhoto-documentation

Chart / Graph

Flow-chart / Timeline

Continium Diagram / Matrix

Slide PresentationA1 Poster

COURSE STRUCTURE

COURSE COMPONENTS

Readings (x 2)

Case Studies

Lectures / Demonstrations

5-part Assignment

• Census Tract

• Weekly Slide-deck

Submission

• Final Presentation

GRADING

Assignment 1 10%

Assignment 2 10%

Assignment 3 10%

Assignment 4 10%

Assignmnet 5 25%

Participation 35%

GRADING CRITERIA

1) Demonstration of engagment with different

information graphic types.

2) Creativity in representation.

3) Effort to create reasoned visual narratives.

BLOG / COURSE MATERIALS

http://prattinfographicsworkshop.wordpress.com

TIME TO VOLUNTEER FOR CASE STUDIES!!!

WEEK 2

Charts / Graphs / Isotypes

• Edward Tufte

• Florence Nightingale

• Otto Neurath

• 1972 Munich Olympics

3 students

WEEK 4

Matrixes / Network Diagrams

• “Learning from Las Vegas”

• Tibor Kalman

• Mark Lombardi

2 students

WEEK 3

Flow-charts / Timelines

• Office of Metropolitan Architecture

/ Rem Koolhaas

• “The Works” / Kate Ascher

2 students

WEEK 5

Visual Narratives

• Edward Tufte

• “Design with Nature” / Ian McHarg

• “Mississippi Floods”

• “The East London Green Grid”

3 students