Last Entry

Most aspects of the course were both useful and interesting to me. My favourite part of the course, and the most useful, was the Document Design Assignment. This assignment was perfect for putting all of the theories of information design that we had covered in the course together. It allowed us to put new skills to practical use. It showed me how much I had taken in and how much new knowledge I had for design and the layout of information. As an added bonus, I really enjoyed doing the assignment!

The least enjoyable part of the course was the lectures. Simply because I think they were unnecessary. It was very difficult to focus on the information and theory being taught without seeing a practical application. Instead of the lectures, I think a weekly tutorial would be much more beneficial, instead of fortnightly.

HTML Entities

Ampersand Symbol = & amp : and & #38

Copyright Symbol = & copy : and & #169

Euro Symbol = & euro : and & #8364

Formatting the Document

First I copied the unformatted text and pasted it into a Word document. I then read through the text, dividing it into paragraphs, bullet points, and highlighting the information that needed to be put into tables and charts. I added footnotes and page numbers to the ends of the pages. I decided to use the font “Garamond”, size 12, for readability. I changed the font paragraph by paragraph, so that I could read through the text thoroughly and put the titles of committees and acts into bold italics so that they stood out from the text.

I then designed the title page using three different font sizes to guide the reader’s attention. I decided to make all of the titles bold. I made the chapter headings size 20, underlined, and the subheadings size 18, without an underline, and the sub-sub headings size 14, to show that they were a part of the overall chapter.

I made tables for the information highlighted and picked a design that suited all, so that there was only one type of table throughout the document, so it would look organised. I chose bar charts for the graph data and I made them the same colour scheme as the tables, to keep the document aesthetically pleasing.

Finally I kept a page reserved for the table of contents and I went through the document making sure that all of the pages were presented well. I then made the table of contents with correct page numbers.

Mozilla Thimble Make

Three Properties of Signs

 

Iconic Sign – portrait of Marilyn Monroe

 

Symbolic Sign – symbol for public bathroom

 

Indexical Sign – sneezing, sign of a cold

 

IO40 Tax Form Redesign

Chart Representing ‘Sources of Income’ Data

Using Identifont

1. Century Gothic

2. Helvetica

3. Crimson Text

4. Helvetica Rounded Bold

5. Baskerville

Webpage that uses Preattention

http://laurenconrad.com/

Gestalt

Gestalt Principle of Reification