Information Design / PROJECT 2: Motion Graphics
Daphne Lai Yu Cheng / 0366380
DST60504 / Information Design / Bachelor of Design (Honours) in Creative Media / Taylors' University
- Instructions
- FLIP Classrooms & Exercises (Exercise submissions are included)
- Feedback
- Reflection
FLIP Classrooms
Week 1 (3-4/2/2026)
Lecture
Figure 1.1 Group Activity: Infographics
Aside from this activity, Mr. Kannan also assigned us to select a poorly constructed infographic poster to redesign.
Figure 1.2 FLIP 1
For FLIP 1, I have selected an infographic poster about MTV subscribers throughout the years. The overall just do not make sense and hard to understand, it took me around a minute to completely understand what was going on, the sizes of the eyes represent the number of subscribers and the size of the eye was so tiny at year 1981 I did not notice it at first.
Figure 1.3 Selected Infographic Poster. Source
To start off, I headed Pinterest to look for examples of timeline infographics for inspiration.
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Figure 1.4 Pinterest
Next, I searched for timeline infographic templates in Canva and came across this template to refer to.
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Figure 1.5 Canva Template Reference
I move on to redesigning the infographic in Canva.
Redesign decisions:
- Retain colour palette
- Use original MTV logo instead of typing
- Replaced the eyes illustration to circle for better readability
- Larger sizes for the numbers (main focus) compared to the "million"
- Added lines to guide the user flow
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Figure 1.6 Process
Final Outcome
Figure 1.7 Final Infographic Redesign
Tutorial & Exercises
After Mr. Kannan briefed us on the module, we were arranged into groups for the group activities. My groupmates are:
Mr. Kannan also briefed us on the 1st exercise, other exercises and projects to give us a better understanding of what is expected in this module. (refer to MIB)
Figure 1.9 Blooket
At the end of the class, we did Blooket prepared by Mr. Kannan just to test if we remember and understand the module.
For this week's task, we were assigned to do Exercise 1: Quantify & Visualise. I started by finding for suitable items for this exercise and I selected the leftover pasta. I thought it would be interesting for this exercise because they come in different shapes and flavours.
Figure 1.10 Pasta
Next, I did some sketches on how I want to display the information of the pasta. I thought of catergorising the pasta into design, flavour and condition of the pasta (perfect, broken). As for the layout, I thought of drawing bowls using different colours to represent the flavours and do a table below to write down the data.
Figure 1.11 Sketches
Week 2 (10-11/2/2026)
Lecture
What is Motion Graphics?
- Graphics and movement, composition + animation.
- No natural reference to movement by humanising and connecting with viewers.
During lecture, we were to create slides about L.A.T.C.H Principles and present as a group.
Tutorial & Exercises
We got to dividing our parts for each other after Mr. Kannan approved our song choice. After dividing, I created a spreadsheet so that everyone is clear with their own parts have balanced workloads.
Figure 2.2 Task Delegation Spreadsheet
Next, we were to create slides about good vs bad infographic and present as a group.
Figure 2.3 Good vs Bad Infographic
Lastly, we have to do consultation with Mr. Kannan on our Exercise 1: Quantify & Visualise Data to show our progress.
I showed Mr. Kannan my initial sketches I did in Week 1, he said that I'm in the right direction and the bowls concept is interesting but he suggests to convert the table into a bowl that displays and separates the pasta designs and colours instead of 3 bowls and a table while the perfect and broken table can be at the bottom as an additional infomation. The main challenge is that how can I make them look easy to understad as an infographic.
Figure 2.4 Mr. Kannan's feedback sketch
Figure 2.5 Improved sketch
I finalised my idea and started to sketch and draw on the A3 paper. For the total amount fo pasta, I drew a rigatoni shaped pasta because I thought just writing it would make it look boring.
Figure 2.6 Process
Lastly, I traced over the sketches and placed the pasta according to their designs and flavours and wrote the information of the pasta. Below is the final outcome of Exercise 1: Quantify & Visualise Data.
Figure 2.7 Exercise 1: Quantify & Visualise Data
Google Drive Link: Click here!
Week 3 (10-11/2/2026)
Lecture
There are no classes this week as it was public holiday. (Online lecture recording provided)
Tutorial & Exercises
There are no classes this week as it was public holiday but there is a submission for our individual exercise which the L.A.T.C.H Principle Infographic.
I started by going through the Pokedex provided in the lecture slides and selected the Hisui/Sinnoh region.
Figure 3.1 Pokedex
After that, I searched for the Hisui/Sinnoh region's map to get some reference then move on to find for inspiration in Pinterest.
Figure 3.2 Hisui/Sinnoh Region Map
I mostly searched for map infographics because they are made for users to easily understand the information.
Figure 3.3 Inspiration & References
Next, I started sketching on how I want my infographic layout to look like and where to place the Pokemons. I started from a really rough sketch then improvised it based on the inspirations and references.
In the improvised sketch, I added Japanese cloud pattern to make the overall map look more appealing and not that plain compared to the 1st sketch.
Figure 3.4 Sketches
As for the progress of our group work, all of us did a draft of our ideas for the lyrics. My parts are both the same lyrics so I decided to come up with different idea for each of them.
Figure 3.1 My Parts
This is the 1st part of the lyrics:
Figure 3.2 Part 1
Figure 3.3 Part 2
Week 4 (10-11/2/2026)
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Week 5 (10-11/2/2026)
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Week 6 (10-11/2/2026)
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Week 8 (10-11/2/2026)
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