Information Design - Project 1

14/1/2019 - 14/2/2019 (Week 2 - Week 6)
Ng Jia Jin (0331589)
Information Design
Project 1 - Instructable Infographics


Instructions 



Part 1: Infographic Poster

15/1/2019 - 2/2/2019 (Week 2 - Week 4) 

After some brief for our current assignment, we learned that there will be 2 parts for the assignment. The 1st part of the assignment is to design a poster based on a cooking recipe of our choice while the other part is to animated a video on how to cook the recipe of ours.

For this part of the assignment, we only have to design an infographic poster based on our chosen recipe. The requirements for the poster is that we need to include the steps on how to cook the recipe and most importantly the ingredients. The poster should also be visually pleasing and not too informative.

I started of by shortlisting some of my favorite food recipe so that I can slowly narrow down to the one that I like the most.

Fig 1.0: Shortlisted Recipes

After shortlisting, I decided to focus on mac & cheese because that is my favorite recipe among the others. At last, I chose to make a recipe of pulled pork mac & cheese because mac & cheese alone is pretty easy to make.

I then went to search up for the recipe and also some reference pictures for the recipe. 

Fig 1.1: Pulled pork mac & cheese

Fig 1.2: Steps & Ingredients

Recipe from: https://www.thespruceeats.com/pulled-pork-macaroni-and-cheese-3058132


After getting the steps and also the ingredients for the recipe, I then start to plan out how my poster should look like.

Fig 1.3: Sketches #1

After knowing my rough layout, I then went on to search up for some ingredients pngs that can be used for my infographic poster and also infographic video.

Fig 1.4: PNGs for recipe

After gathering all the necessary PNGs, I start to combine them together for my infographic poster on Adobe Photoshop. 

Fig 1.5: Progress #1

Fig 1.6: Progress #2

Fig 1.7: Progress #3

Here is the final outcome for my Pulled Pork Mac & Cheese:

Fig 1.8: Final Infographic Poster 

Part 2: Infographic Video

The next part of this assignment requires us to animate an infographic video according to the recipe poster that we made. To start off my animated infographic video, I roughly sketched out how I want my video layout to be so that I can have a clearer idea on how I want to animate my video. I also gathered PNGs that I need to animate the video. 

Fig 1.9: Layout Sketch

Fig 2.0: PNGs elements

Fig 2.1: Inforgraphic Poster

After gathering all the information that I need for my video, I then proceed to make my video on Adobe After Effects.

Fig 2.2: Process on After Effects #1

Fig 2.3: Process on After Effects #2

Fig 2.4: Process on After Effects #3

Fig 2.5: Process on After Effects #4

Fig 2.6: Process on After Effects #5

Here is my final animated infographic recipe video: