About Design Principles

The theme for this week I learn design principles, which I’m so excited about it. Even though I have learnt design principles before, this is the first time I can create my own design after I have studied design principles right away.

My favourite part of this week’s course content is creating an infographic. It reminds my experience of watching fabulous infographics on Pinterest. These infographics not only involve plenty of aesthetic skills, but also describe a theme from new angles. I was wondering when could I create these creative infographics.

BUT NOW I CAN DO IT

Visual Effects

I create the first infographic from one of my art history course, which is introduction of clay. I choose the template that is the most suitable for my theme after I write down my required texts. I design this infographic by following the colour principle and hierarchy principle.

There are two main colours in this template, so I use these colours for my texts as well. However, I add two analogous colours. I discovered this technique when aligning texts from “COLLECTING CLAY”, this light-pink colour as normal texts looks too contrasting, so I desaturate the colour of these normal texts for highlighting the subtitle. I also change the colour of numbers in jade-green, which is the analogous colour of green. Then I put each number behind each step, so that this procedure would look more creative.

Besides, I view the infographic one more time and discover texts from “COLLECTING CLAY” look unattractive, so I change these texts in the upper case to make them readable. In addition, I find a creative tip for making texts in a hierarchy by the graphic of a river. This tip is inspired by the first step “Collecting the clay near the river or lake”, so that I decided to put this graphic as a tool for introducing something. The rhythm of the river flowing to the end of the infographic leads audiences to read the procedure of collecting clay.