ILL-268: Data Visualization 1

Department
Credits 3
Instructional Method
Academic Level
Today's data driven culture requires smart and effective visual solutions for the purposes of explaining often complex ideas and statistics. In this class students will study and explore a variety of tools, methods, and strategies for visually representing data. Student projects will demonstrate how to translate and communicate information into stunning visuals in an engaging, empathetic, and visually striking manner, utilizing principles of drawing, design, color, form, and imagination. An understanding of the principles of visual psychology and cognitive science along with graphic design will be included. Through this process your individual artistic voice will be developed into a unique and powerful communication tool that can be applied to project solutions in the DesignMatters concentration and beyond.
Requisites
Take Digital Design Assessment Test