Information Design - Project 1 & 2

07/01/20 - 18/02/20 (Week 1 - Week 7)
Atiqah Farzana Binti Syalleh Karimyee (0336740)
Information Design
Project 1 & 2

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INSTRUCTIONS

Module Information Booklet:




Assignment brief:

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Project 1 - Infographics Poster
Week 4
(28/01/20)

From this week onwards, we would be starting on with our projects. Project 1 is to create an A3 infographic of a recipe of our choice. Ms. Anis stated clearly that the poster should be detailed enough for the audience to actually be able to follow the recipe.

As always, I started off with some research. I tried thinking of my favourite dishes, but I thought they were all too difficult or too detailed if I made into a poster. After a lot of thought and consideration, I chose a fairly simple yet iconic dish- Nasi Lemak!

Fig. 1.1 Nasi Lemak Recipe 1

Fig. 1.2 Nasi Lemak Recipe 2

Fig. 1.3 Nasi Lemak Recipe 3

Fig. 1.4 Nasi Lemak Recipe 4

Fig. 1.6 Layout Idea 2

Fig. 1.5 Layout Idea 1

 Now that I was happy with my layout and composition, I started drawing it in Illustrator. I really took my time with details, even knowing that each illustration would be too miniscule to even see the details.

Fig. 2.1 Illustration: Rice Strands

Fig. 2.2 Illustration: Rice Fields

Fig. 2.3 Illustration: Wok with Sambal

Fig. 2.4 Illustration: Lesung Batu

Fig. 2.5 Illustration: Lesung Batu Closeup

Fig. 2.6 Illustration: Asam Jawa

Fig. 2.7 Illustration: Nasi Lemak

This illustration of the Nasi Lemak is by far my favourite! I was very happy with all of the individual illustrations so far, but then everything went a bit downhill when I put them together.

Fig. 2.8 Infographic: First Attempt

I kept playing around with the background colour and border/ pillars colour combinations because nothing seemed to be working for me. I asked my friends for some advice and they told me to stick with a blue background for the sky as I was sort of going for a "cloud" look (there are clouds holding the conveyor belt; the title shadow is white).

I was still unsatisfied with this colour combination, so I played around some more and finally settled for this deep brown background.

Fig. 2.9 Infographic: Second Attempt

Fig. 2.10 Infographic: Final Attempt

I really like how the final outcome looks now with the darker background! Now for project 2, the animation part.

Firstly, I made a storyboard:

                                                                                Fig. 3.1 Nasi Lemak Storyboard 

This is my first time touching After Effects in a long time, not to mention I never really had much use out of it other than the puppet tool. Therefore, everything was very difficult at the start. I had to watch a handful of YouTube tutorials multiple times to try to replicate the animations.

Fig. 3.2 After Effects: First Scene

Fig. 3.3 After Effects: Second Scene

Fig. 3.4 After Effects: Third Scene

Fig. 3.5 After Effects: Fourth Scene

Over time and more practice, I got the hang of it and I started to open up to AE more. It became easier and I worked faster, plus I got to learn a lot in a short amount of time just for this submission.

I struggled a lot at the beginning because I never had much practice with AE, but I am very happy with my end result.

Here is my final video:

Here is the link to my video on YouTube.