IMPORTANT: Instructions for the Final Outcomes

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Visual Summary

Objective

  1. Document the project and experience
    1. Does NOT have a lot of type
    2. It SHOWS the essence of visual work with small annotations
    3. Captions, not discourse
    4. Curated set of information
      1. Good
      2. Bad
      3. Developmental
      4. Research
      5. Context
    5. Designers are editors. They are not just creators of other people’s information
    6. Do show working processes and ideas in development
    7. Do record techniques and materials you have explored
      1. Adobe screenshot
  2. Evidence references that have informed or inspired your work
    1. Basically, show the historical context that inspires you
      1. Don’t give back references
      2. Look at the reading list and look at things which gives direction towards context
    2. We are nodes on a cultural network
    3. INCLUDE TYPE PAGES IN SUMMARY
    4. 60-70 percent is your work
    5. 20-30 percent is information

Why the Visual Summary?

  1. The methods you use are transferrable
    1. You learn method, not design
    2. It is an editorial design project
    3. Integrity
    4. Experience
    5. Judgement
    6. Curation
    7. Emphasizing
    8. Outputs are not as important as the processes

What to Include

  1. Evidence of participation in all 6 workshops
  2. Developments and outputs to all 6 task workshops
  3. Evidence of contextual explorations related to the task
    • Any relevant discipline
    • Look at art, but also mathematics and science
  4. 250-500 word critical review of:
    • Task workshops
    • The Unit
    • Your Practice
    • The key is in the quality
    • How have you recovered understanding
    • BE CRITICAL
  5. Documentation of your journey in a book
    • You can submit physical work if you want
  6. Description and evaluation of this Unit
  1. Details
    1. Name and student ID number
      • Tutor and tutor group
    2. A list of the contents
    3. Page numbers – folios
    4. Clearly marked sections and headings
    5. Short introductions to each section, captions to images
    6. Map of the page
  2. Primary research
    1. Visual evidence of:
      • Task workshops
      • Task workshop developments
        • Practical explorations
        • Stages of development
        • Technical tests
        • Alternative ideas
        • Interesting failures
      • Stages towards final outcomes
      • Other practical work
    2. Secondary research
      • Any sources of info
      • Any sources of inspiration
        • Contextual studies
        • Theoretical studies
        • Relevant quotes
        • Technical resources
        • Material resources
  3. Critical review
    • Short, critical reflective statement
      • Workshops
      • The unit
      • Your practice
        • What went right
        • What could have gone better
        • Further possibilities

What even is it?

  • Content is there and the structure is there to support the content
  • Carefully designed and edited to communicate visually
    • So well designed that it does not look designed at all
  • Shows relevant images of your work and any other work that informed your own
  • Is NOT padded out
  • Worthy of portfolio
  • Size: A5 to A3
  • Length: 40+ 100 PAGES
  • Does not have to be one document
  • Clear, attractive, informative
  • Consistent layout with grid
  • Logical and clear typographic hierarchy
    • Headings, text, captions
  • Photos and images
    • As good as they can be
  • Materials, binding, and finish
  • Designing for a spread (verso and recto)
  • Make use of breakers (use quotes?)

Dos

  • Design the document
  • Test possible grids, layout, and type
  • Complete the task workshops and keep records of everything you do and discover
  • Do design, edit, summarise, and reference the body of work as it takes shape
  • Use a grid
  • Make it navigable
  • Keep it visual (DON’T WRITE, A PICTURE IS WORTH 1000 WORDS)
  • Print actual-size test pages to ensure structure and consistent typography
  • Plan for print
  • Check spelling and grammar
  • Interesting, pretty, informative
  • Be slightly insane and fascinating
  • Include the process of creating the book itself

Don’ts

  • Don’t leave everything to the last minute
  • Don’t write more than required
  • Don’t use arbitrary type
    • Use it because you need it to communicate
  • Don’t fill with redundant material or quick web downloads
  • Tell the truth and show it

The IGMD Presentation

The Date

  • 17th January 12.20
    1. RIGHT AFTER THE BREAK

The Presentation

  • Structure
    1. 20 minutes per presentation
    2. 10 minutes for questions, discussion, and feedback
    3. All students to attend
      • We present to our peers
  • Presentation elements
    1. Introduce your group’s members
      • Your cultural, social, national, geographical, familial backgrounds
      • Use mapping, info design, typology, photography to visualize
      • Outline your individual contributions
        • Job titles
        • Explain which part everyone did
  1. What you are saying is supported by what is on screen
    • The slides are a prompt to you and interesting to the audience
  • The objects
    1. Objects: visual storytelling
    2. Explain the object as if no one knows about it
    3. Visually and Verbally describe:
      • What the objects are and their material qualities
      • What do the objects mean
        • Personally
        • Wider social context
        • Wider cultural contexts
      • Maybe shake up the different objects where someone else presents your object and does research on it
    4. How to present that
      • Try to use a wide range of media and materials
      • Drawing, photography, screenprint, mapping, scanning, information design, animation, text, etc.
      • Make use of LCC tech areas
      • Develop LATCH, typology, eBay and museum exercises
        • DO NOT use them directly
      • Certain perceptions will have different stories
        • Make each object have three facets and present them accordingly
      • The Relation to CTS
        1. Short review of reading, writing and secondary research as a part of the project and part of your design practice
          • How have contextual studies informed this presentation?
            • “We are little nodes on a network of culture.” –Paul
          • How is “How to See the World” relevant?
          • How does writing inform practice?
        2. Maybe divide the presentations by chapter, by objects
      • Review
        1. Review the IGMD unit, the studio and CTS activities and your collaboration
          • What worked well?
          • What didn’t? What was difficult to achieve?
          • Is collaboration useful and does it work well?

Presentation Advice

  • Limit the number of slides
  • Limit content to fit into twenty minutes and practice to make sure it does fit twenty minutes
    1. Not too much, not too little
  • Limit the number of words on each slide
    1. Only keywords
  • Do not read off the slide
    1. The slide is for the audience, not for you
  • Do not speak about a slide before you’ve shown it
  • Do not face the screen
  • Use good quality images
  • Test your images to ensure that they are effective
  • Write a script and rehearse it
    1. If you do not want to memorize, work from notes
  • Know what you’re saying and say it on cue
  • Visualise, write, rehearse, correct, and redevelop the presentation
  • Make sure that the type is big enough to be seem from the back
    1. Make sure they fit the aspect ratio
    2. Colour changes are useful
  • Run your presentation from the laptop
    1. The presentation will be on a USB HANDED IN 2 DAYS BEFORE PRESENTATION

The Schedule of Work

  • Briefings
    1. Thursday the 8th, 11th, and 18th
    2. Work in studio
    3. Figure out who is doing what
  • Project Development
    1. Thursday 15th, 11th, 18th
    2. Work in studio
  • Week Seven
    1. Check in
  • Week Eight
    1. 12:30 to 13:30 review and group tutorials
    2. Overall structure of presentation, distribution of labour, use of tech resources, initial visualizations, ideas for content
      • Who’s doing what
      • Overview of content
      • Who is doing what with what resources
      • Basic layout of the slides
  • Week Nine
    1. You work
    2. Have conversations
  • Week Ten
    1. Formative assessment
      • Get feedback and respond to it
      • 12:30 – 13:30
    2. Dress rehearsal
    3. Review finished prototype
    4. Run through supporting verbal presentation
    5. Work in studio
  • Week Eleven
    1. Work as a group to finish things off
  • Final Week
    1. Hand in a data stick and script to Tuesday Principles session
    2. TEST YOUR DATA STICK
  • Presentation
    1. Present to the tutors and to the students

Building the Presentation

  • Do Include
    1. Images
    2. Short texts
    3. Running heads and captions that let the audience know where you are
  • ALWAYS use a grid
  • Images are strong and visible
    1. Test this in rehearsal
  • Text is visible from the back of the room
    1. Test this in rehearsal
  • There is a distinct difference between the header and the body
  • Screen aspect ratio
    1. 16 by 9
  • InDesign Document Building
    1. New document
      • Choose size in aspect ratio
      • 320 by 180
    2. Start building columns and gutters
    3. Margins are a default of half and inch, but make but 6mm all around
    4. Uncheck facing pages
    5. Make rows to create a series of rectangles
      • Create guides
      • Make rows
      • Make rows operate within margins
    6. Turn snap to guides on
    7. Make a master page or clone the pages

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