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Infographic Revisited – Ready for Her Maiden Voyage
Here’s the progression of our final infographic! Originally we planned to keep our cruise ship in this schematic view as we were inspired by the Slagsmålsklubben (Little Red Riding Hood) music video to keep our infographic clean and simple. We were drawn to the engineering-style sketches that were featured in the video and thought they would…
Infographic Part 2: First Draft
Pictured below is a very rough draft of ideas we are trying to incorporate the methodology and protocol into our infographic. This is a first draft experimenting ideas and ways of presenting information, as our final draft will be much more polished with better graphics and visuals. What We Changed Due to our extreme difficulties…
Trouble on the High Seas
After deciding that we were going to be pursuing the CAD model direction, we began our search on Autodesk Tinkercad, a web-based 3D modeling program where users can create and share CAD models. After looking for cruise ship models, we stumbled upon a user with the name Supraman88 who had created and posted many high-resolution…
Exploring New Ideas
Below we have compiled a list of new ideas to explore and different approaches we plan on taking for our second shot at the inforgraphic! Potential Directions As we approach our new infographic, we have come to the conclusion that we wanted to provide a more interesting visual to the audience and that we did…
New Project – Infographic Part 2
As our final project, we decided to redo our infographic, so here is our take on Infographic Part 2! After speaking to Professor deWinter to understand where we lost points, we now have an understanding of what to change and where we can gain back points. Key Points We currently have three tasks to complete…
PHOTO ESSAY: The Final Draft
If you are coming from our last blog, then you have already seen the wonderful pictures we were able to take at Institute Park. As we wrote the captions for each photo, we tried to keep our purpose in the back of our minds. As a reminder, the purpose of this photo essay is to…
Photo Essay Second Draft
Hello, we hope you all had a restful long weekend! We took some time to reflect on our new direction and went back out into Institute Park – this time with some friends! Like we mentioned in our previous post (which you can check out here), we wanted to get some shots of people picking…
Feedback and New Direction
During today’s class we got some great advice from Karen and Professor deWinter about our photo essay. At the beginning of this project, our audience was WPI students which we quickly realized was not an audience which could actually do something about the problem we were presenting. After talking to Professor deWinter, we decided that…
Photo Essay First Draft
Hello again! Here are a selection of unedited pictures we took during our shoot in Institute Park yesterday: To take these photographs, we borrowed a Canon 50mm 1.2 L lens from Photography Club on campus. After culling through the vast amount of trash photos we had, we began the process of identifying the most impactful…
Our Idea and Taking Pictures
Our initial idea was to combine some of the pictures Isabelle took in her previous adventures along with some new ones we would take at Institute Park. We wanted to start our photo essay with pictures from other places of clean water and nature shots and transition to pictures of Worcester with clean and trashed…
New Project – Photo Essay!
Introduction Hello again! We’re back again with a new assignment: creating a photo essay about water sustainability at WPI. When we got this new assignment, we had many questions. Chiefly, we didn’t know what a photo essay was, or how to effectively tell a story with one. We were given a brief crash course into…
Infographic, Final Draft
Our final infographic is intended to be more supplementary to the methods that will be deeply discussed and explained in the scientific paper. While we tried to simplify our design and allow there to be a seamless flow with the audience, we wanted to use icons to send mental ideas to the audience about the…
Infographic, Draft One
After doing research on different infographics and gaining an improved understanding of our clients requests, we created our first draft focusing more on our illustrative vision. Throughout this blog post, we will discuss the feedback we received and our next steps. Our first draft is displayed below. Our Current Stage At this point in our…
Sea-ing a New Perspective
Our first idea sunk. After speaking with Professor Korkin and hearing his pitch, we realized that we had a misunderstanding about what he wanted and what we were anticipating to do. This caused us to not change our idea entirely, but approach it with a different perspective. A New Understanding During Professor Korkin’s visit to…
Researching Infographics
Since our last post, we have gained a better understanding of our task as designers and what we are expected to create for this next project. Our job is to create an infographic of a cruise ship illustrating components of an infectious modeling system based off of the recent outbreak of the Coronavirus. Below is…
New Project: Cruise Ship Calamity
Swiftly following the conclusion of our typeface project, we have been given a new project: create an infographic for a scientific community of epidemiologists. The exact prompt that we were given by our client is as follows: 1) The audience is a scientific community of epidemiologists 2) The infographic will be included in a document…
Athena Final Draft
After some meticulous path-smoothing in Illustrator and stylizing in Photoshop, we present to you the final draft of our premier font Athena! The main improvements from our first draft include cleaning up the edges of each letter and making the decorative elements feel more natural. In the draft, the letters had slightly rounded edges, which…
Introducing Athena
Our newly named font, Athena, is inspired by the character of whom we designed the font for. We believe that the font properly encapsulates Athena’s essence and aura through the typeface’s boldness and whimsicality. Draft One Following our research regarding Victorian fonts and formation of a general direction for our design, we decided to start…
Creating Victoria Neue, Part One
Following our last post where we researched the origins of Steampunk, we decided to go in the direction of traditional Victorian typography as our main influence for the typeface we will create. We believe that by taking a new spin on traditional Victorian design trends, we can better target the audience than if we designed…
Starting the Font Design Journey: Victoria Neue
Isabelle Cordova is a sophomore at Worcester Polytechnic Institute pursuing a custom major in User Experience Design. Elaine Chen is also a sophomore at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, majoring in Computer Science and Professional Writing. Background For a Visual Rhetoric course at WPI, Elaine and I were commissioned to produce an original font family for an…
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