Edward Tufte states that “An especially effective device for enhancing the explanatory power of time-series displays is to add spatial dimensions to the design of the graphic, so that the data are moving over space (in two or three dimensions) as well as over time.” (Tufte, 1990). Here Tufte is Read more…
Edward Tufte’s theory of small multiples suggests that it is easier for a viewer to distinguish and understand the differences between pieces of similar visual information when that information is all placed within the viewer’s singular parameter of vision. This is because “Small multiple designs, multivariate and data bountiful, answer Read more…
For my design research diary I have decided to explore how game developers utilize Edward Tufte’s theories in order to convey important information to the player. In this first blog post we will be looking at Tufte’s theory about the use of colour and the ways in which colour is Read more…
This is my draft poster design created in Adobe illustrator. For this design I have combined the two drawings I created in blog post three in order to create a message about video game addiction. The mans brain being a video game controller suggests that all he thinks about is Read more…
This is my attempt at making a tomato look like its within a wine glass using Photoshop. I used a tomato instead of an apple as I didn’t have any apples at home at the time. I have very little experience with photoshop so this attempt isn’t great but even Read more…
This is the work I have come up with in Adobe Illustrator. In the previous blog post I discussed how I wanted my poster to convey a message about video game addiction by portraying some sort of mechanical brain, contrasting the idea of free will with the ideas of obedience Read more…
These are the notes and sketches I created for the conceptual poster that I intend to make for this assignment. My poster will be about the affects that video games have on our mental health with video game addiction being the main focus. In order to figure out which two Read more…
For this assignment the subject I have chosen to go with is how video games affect mental health. I believe video games can have both positive and negative effects on our mental health and I would like to create a conceptual poster to convey this idea. While I haven’t decided Read more…
“Us Dreamers” is an advertisement from Microsoft about the Xbox Series X|S released in October 2020. The main purpose of this ad is to highlight the immersion provided by Microsoft’s upcoming next generation of consoles. To convey this point, the ad shows a young man getting transported to a different Read more…