Information design- Exercise 1

03/02/2025 -  10/02/2025 (Week 1 - Week 2)
Lee Jia Rou / 0363293
Information Design / Bachelor of Design (Hons) in Creative Media
Exercises 1

Instruction 

Lecture 

Week 1:
To start the new semester, we had an online lecture where Mr. Fauzi and Mr. Shamsul introduced us to the MIB for this module. We were told that we had to bring the materials to school during tutoring sessions to start practicing. Additionally, we shared group projects where we had to first create a group of 6 – 10 students to work with the Project 2 which is produce an infographic report to present the given information to a ‘target audience’ with the purpose of:
1. Creating awareness
2. Explaining a process
3. Defining a concept
 
Mr. Fauzi  also taught us different type of infographics which is :
1. Lists Infographic
2. Statistics Infographic
3. How to Infographic
4. Timeline Infographic
5. Comparison Infographic
6. Map or Location Infographic
7.Flowchart Infographic
8. Process Description Infographic
 
Week 2:
We started the class with a lecture. Mr. Fauzi introduced us to several types of infographics and the L.A.T.C.H theory. Organizing information meaningfully and effectively base on location, alphabet, time, category and hierarchy. 

Exercises 1- Quantifiable Information 
-Quantify raw data and visualize information as a photograph
- Visual representation of numerical data that allows for easy interpretation and analysis. 

For this exercise, we have to quantify our chosen items and arrange the objects into presentable layout. The requirement is that the information must be presented as it is, and the relevant indicators must be written with a pen to help us visually see the quantities and data.

I used sewing kit set as the items. So as my chosen items are very random I try simple arrangement by divided them into big to small, divided into different materials. After some rough arrangement. I try to label each category into different topic and labels. 
fig. 1.0 example of sorted Quantify Information  

First I put all sewing tools on the A3 size paper.
fig. 1.1 Data - all chosen item

Then I sorted it out into different materials and also different sizes. 
fig. 1.2 draft arranged data (materials)
fig. 1.3 draft arranged data (materials 2)
fig. 1.4 draft arranged data (materials 3)
 My story is that this sewing tool reminded me of when I was staying at my grandparents' house. I could see my grandmother sewing and her house was in a kampung so it was filled with the sounds of poultry and insects.
fig. 1.5 draft visual present 1
fig. 1.6 draft visual present 2
fig. 1.7 draft visual present 3

FINAL SUBMISSIONS
Data
fig. 2.0 All data (sewing kit tool )
Sorted
fig. 2.1 Sorted by big to small & different tool 
Arranged
fig. 2.2 Arranged by different materials
Visually Presented 

fig. 2.3 Arranged by different materials
Final Quantify and Visualise Data 
fig. 2.4 A rooster crow 

Reflection

Experience
This exercise is really practical and fun. when in exercise I not sure how to arrange the needles and scissors in a way that looked good and made sense, and was a little confused about the differences between sorted and arranging, but trying different layouts helped. I especially like using the Storytelling template because it allows me to be more creative. 

Observation
At first, I wasn't a bit bored about doing infographic because for me infographic is rearrange the data in a map. I've noticed that organizing data is more fun and creative than I thought. In practice, I can slowly find its benefits and fun in infographic.