Information Graphics: PDX Edition

This 10-week course aims to explore contemporary information graphics as a design practice as well as an art practice. We will take an in depth look at varies ways designers and artists worldwide working with information to create works that has great impact on our understanding of our lives, past, present, and future. Following the examination of leading practitioners’ work, each student will create two information graphic projects to tell stories of Portland Oregon.

Our ability to generate and acquire data has by far outpaced our ability to make sense of that data. –Manuel Lima

We have an urgent need to use visualization for socially relevant purposes. –Andrew Vande Moere

Making an evidence presentation is a moral act as well as an intellectual activity. To maintain standards of quality, relevance, and integrity for evidence, consumers of presentations should insist the presenters be held intellectually and ethically responsible for what they show and tell. –Edward R. Tufte

Information Graphics: PDX Edition

Student Project

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

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