GOOD Magazine

Pola found this great site full of infographics:

GOOD

Look for helpful information as well as examples...

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Information Visualization poster for the 40th Earth Day.

Based on the examples in class and the reading, aestheticize statistics to communicate the information through design. Your stylistic point of departure should be the style of the symbols you have been developing in class so far.

Monday, March 1

For those of you unsure about where to start your research:

Some places to start looking for information for your Earth Day Posters:

US Energy Information Administration

http://www.eia.doe.gov/

Center for Science in the Public Interest

http://cspinet.org/

EPA

http://www.epa.gov/

Envirofacts Data Warehouse

http://www.epa.gov/enviro/

A difference of opinion:

Pacific Legal Foundation

http://community.pacificlegal.org/Page.aspx?pid=854

Another difference of opinion:

http://www.amlibpub.com/essays/ipcc-global-warming-report.html

Rebuttle to the differences in opinion:

http://www.skepticalscience.com/

Planet Pals

http://www.planetpals.com/fastfacts.html

UNESCO

http://portal.unesco.org/science/en/ev.php-URL_ID=5296&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html

Toxics in Packaging Clearinghouse

http://www.nerc.org/documents/tcph_final_report_june_2007.pdf

http://www.nerc.org/tools/index.html

Wed. February 22

Class cancelled due to illness.

Please use the extra time to do your blog posts based on the assigned reading for Monday.

Wed. February 17

Instructions Due.

Class Critique.

Printing with the DesignJet z3100.

Wed. Feb 10 - Working Critique

Wed. Feb 10 - Working Critique

On Wednesday we will be looking at your projects in progress as a class. You should be integrating the symbols into an instructional design by this time. We will be discussing the poster as well as the icons. The projects will be due and ready to print the following Wednesday, Feb. 17.

Will will be learning to use the printers on this day.

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EXPAND UPON EXERCISE TWO in order to develop a pictographic library to use for our next PROJECT:

Teach a Martian How To Tie an Earth Shoe

( we will use our icons in an instructional format - to create a poster to illustrate how to do something )