Now that you have gathered your data, it's time to analyze it further and visualize it. With the data set that you've gathered, which is just for one week and only with a handful of variables, you probably won't need a computer or special tools to analyz ...
Assemblies
For some unknown reason, the National Archives includes a document entitled Cocktail Construction Chart, which was created by the US Forest Service in 1974, showing recipes for a group of cocktails represented in the style of an architectural diagram. ...
Music Mix
Due: 9/25 This week, I want you to think about using audio for particular rhetorical situations by creating a mix playlist with a group of songs. Rules (all of which are breakable, if you have a good justification for why): I usually think of a m ...
Triptych: Beginning, Middle, End
“A Softer World” is a photographic webcomic that ran weekly for about twelve years, starting in Feb 2003. Emily and Joey published 1248 comics in that time, each consisting of three panels with photographs and words superimposed on them – often it seems t ...
Data visualization from everyday life
Due: 10/2 Objectives: Introduction to data visualization, which we'll be doing a lot more with during the latter half of the semester. Experience gathering data, making decisions about what counts or doesn't, considering the difficulties in that pr ...
A Human Document: Visual Poem
Due: 11/20. Tag: sk12 The British artist Tom Phillips is probably best known for a project that he began in 1966 and which he has continued ever since–he set himself the challenge to buy the first book he could find at a secondhand bookstore for threepe ...
256 Points
Today, we have the luxury of fast computers with lots of memory and power. However, that wasn't always the case, and graphics designers had to make due with very limited capabilities. For this assignment, you are to draw a person, vehicle, or otherwise ...
Cinemegraph
Due: 10/30 Tag: sk9 For this assignment, I’d like you to create your very own cinemagraph — it can be a landscape, or a portrait, or a movie scene, or whatever else you’d like to try. Scroll down for lots of examples of cinemag ...
Recreate a Movie Scene
Due: 11/13. Tag: sk11 Choose a single moment from a movie or television episode and recreate that scene as closely as you can in a single photograph. Think about how you can creatively use wardrobe items or prop ...