Course Topics and Links

01: Shared Knowledge and Content Development

02: Collaboration

03: What is Information Design?

04: Visual Perception 1: How the eye works

05: Visual Perception 2: How the mind sees

06: The Human Interface: Access, Function, and Interpretation

07: Image Icon, Symbol, and Sign: Metaphor, Analogy, Context and Meaning

08: Data collection, development and analysis

09: Tools

10a: 2d Images 1: Drawings, Prints Photographs, Paintings

10b: 2d Images 2: Charts, Graphs, Diagrams, Maps, Schematics.

11: 2d Progressions: Narrative Forms, Comics, Cartoons, Timelines, Calendars

12: 2d Movement: Animation, Video, Film, and Flip-Book

13: Interactivity

14: 3D Static Forms: Sculpture, Set Design, Installation

15: 3D Progressions: Theatre, Performance, Puppetry, Robotics, 3d Animation and Simulation

16a: Interior Design and Architecture

16b: Landscapes: Urban, Suburban and Natural

16c: Ways: Roadways, Highways, Railways, Airways.

17: 3D Visualizing (In)visible Space: Macroscopic and Microscopic Systems and Events

18: Virtual Imagined Space

19: Virtual Collaboration