Information Design
Directions:
Step 1 – Review the information posted below.
Step 2 – Answer the question(s) in a clear and organized paragraph.
What is Information Design?
Information design is a specialized area of graphic design that involves making large amounts of complex information clear, accessible, and easily understood by the audience.
Information designs include newsletters, charts, infographics, instruction booklets, books, magazines, newspapers, restaurant menus, brochures, catalogs, covers, and various other printed media.
The graphic designer’s task is to clearly communicate, make information easily accessible, and clarify and enhance any type of information for the end-user’s understanding.
The goal is to design for the end-user. Information is gathered, organized, and enhanced to ensure its accessible, clear, and improves the reader’s experience.
College Catalog Design
Use common design elements such as colors, text, images, layout, etc. on all pages.
The goal is to unify a large amount of information across a multipage document and make information easily accessible and relevant.
Clearly organize all information, photos, and graphics for the audience.
Consistency is a very important element in multipage design; it provides flow from one page to the other.
Pages need to be attractive, seductive, and interesting, or no one is going to pay attention to them.
Questions
Answer the following question(s) in a clear and organized paragraph.
- Start with your topic sentence. This is where you should state your ideas.
- Then, include evidence to support your ideas.
- Finally, finish your paragraph with a brief wrap-up sentence.
- Then, include evidence to support your ideas.
- Finally, finish your paragraph with a brief wrap-up sentence.
I recommend you type your answers in Word or Google Docs and copy / paste your responses below. This will allow you to save a back-up version of your work.