5. Documents and Pages
Tuesday
Activities will include:
- Filling out your weekly schedule of free time for project partnerships.
- Discussion of Chapters 11
- Discussion of Berleant article
- Presentation on typography and layout.
- Workshop on Word stylesheets and other formatting features. Download exercise file.
- How to create visual hierarchy on a page.
Thursday
Activities will include:
- Discussion of Chapter 12
- General discussion of Grid Systems
- Grids are Good (PDF)
- Golden Ratio
- Section on grids in textbook
- Web example: I-Renew website, with GridFox overlay
- Blueprint CSS
- Settings for 12-unit pseudo-grid for Word:
- Information Design
- Visual Rhetoric - Edward Tufte:
- Minard's graph of Napoleon's Russian Campaign
- John Snow's cholera map
- Critique of PowerPoint thinking and NASA Columbia disaster.
- Colin Powell's UN Presentation and Tufte's criticism
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