Course Experience

In my GDI class I was able to learn how to layer in photoshop, how to use illustrator, and how to manipulate multiple pages in indesign.  I liked the wacom tablet and will look forward to working more with that and making artworks graphically.  My favorite project was the zine because it was sort of like an accumulation of all the project objectives plus a bonus book-binding demonstration :)

Finished

Edited title.

The Inspiration of How to Zine

My idea for a How to Zine is "How to Survive an Alternate Reality" (this way I can have fun with it).

Books I checked out from the library to use as guides:
The Boys' Book of Survival: How to Survive Anything, Anywhere by Guy Campbell
      This book is my reference for ideas although mine will be more fictitious.
How to be a Zombie by Serena Valentino
      This book has more outlandish ideas that will help, plus the page layout and organization of ideas will be useful.
How to Build Your Own Country by Valerie Wyatt
      This book is great (seriously).  Funny and educational at the same time (which I like) so the presentation, interactiveness, and again the layout and organization are what I will take from this book.
Born to be Giants: How Baby Dinosaurs Grew to Rule the World by Lita Judge
      This book is less of a how to, but I got it anyway because of the text and illustration integration.
The Secret Knowledge of Grown-Ups revealed by David Wisniewski
      This book isn't a how to either but it has creative ideas using "cut-out" illustrations, text/picture integration, and it's ideas are good too (funny).
A Dignity of Dragons by Jacqueline K. Ogburn
      Not a how to book but I liked the illustrations, and the information on creatures at the end will be useful for my zine.

My zine will probably turn out like something of a field guide.  I'd like to do the hand-drawn sketch thing plus some interactive pieces.  About my idea of surviving an alternate reality: I've love fantasy books, folktales, and sci-fi movies so I thought it would be neat to combine some of the creatures and unusual circumstances I have read about into a basic survival guide (just in case someone gets sucked into a wormhole or somehow transported to another dimension and has to deal with such weird things).

Music Assault Infograph

 Went with bar graphs because I liked the towers made when I organized the ipod genres.  Headphones and sound-waves in the background were a must :)  Genius title too.

Raw Data

Here is some of my raw data (interpret it if you can! :) I was recording the music I listen to, the format, and how long each assaults my ears in a given day.  To figure out the genres of music I listen to on my ipod (note really messed up paper on bottom right) I totaled my recently played songs.

Examples of Infographics

Notes beginning Infographics project