Information Design / final project

2/2/2026 - 18/3/2026/ Week 1 - Week 7

GUAN YAXIN / 0370687

Information Design / Bachelor of Design (Hons) in Creative Media

LECTURES&PROCESS

In this week's online class, Mr. Martin reminded the students to speed up and collected the information of the final project. I intend to finish the final task with another classmate. We reported the information to the teacher and began to discuss it. Mr. Martin is not talking about anything new, but reminding the students to finish the final task as soon as possible.

INTRODUCTION

Animated Infographics

Core elements:

The dynamic graphics need to show that you can transform the static design into time-based communication, and improve clarity, hierarchy and aesthetics in the process.

By completing this project, you need to demonstrate the following abilities:

Transform static infographic into time-driven visual narrative.

Use motion principles to enhance clarity, rhythm and attraction.

Maintain a consistent design language between posters and animations.

Clearly convey instructions to the target audience within a limited time (60 seconds)

There are two of us working together in this task. First of all, you need to choose a video as the theme in the channel of Grandma Noodle. Since this task coincides with that in project one, we intend to use certain materials. After discussion and evaluation of our own abilities, we chose the video of 99-year-old Rina's delicious pasta. For the information in the video, we integrated and discussed it, and finally found and made some vector materials. The next step is to use AE to make videos. According to the steps in the previously selected video, we started making the video. First of all, you need to determine the tone of the whole video, such as color, font, style and so on. However, with the preparation in project one, we quickly laid the foundation.

FEEDBACK

WEEK 7

General Feedback : Mr. Martin explained the design principles of L.A.T.C.H posters and taught us how to make dynamic words and prompted us to speed up the progress.

Specific Feedback : no

REFLECTION

Experience

In the course of Information Design, I have a deeper understanding of the way of visual organization and information transmission. In course projects and group discussions, I learned how to use design elements such as fonts, colors, layout and images to make the information more clear. This experience made me realize that information design is not only to make the work look beautiful, but more importantly, to make the audience understand the information easily.

Observation

In the process of finishing my homework, I observed that good information design needs clear structure and clear visual hierarchy, so preliminary research and planning are very important. When the information is reasonably organized, the audience can understand the content more easily. Consistency in design is very important, for example, using the same fonts and colors can form a unified visual style for the whole project. In addition, although visual effects and images can attract attention, they still need to be related to the theme and keep in touch with the overall design.

Findings

Information design is a process of balancing creativity and function. We need to think carefully about the presentation of information to make it visually attractive and easy to understand. Learning this course has helped me to improve my ability to organize information, express it visually and think critically about design decisions. These skills will help me to study more systematically.