Information Design / Exercise 2 : L.A.T.C.H

4.1.2022 - 21.1.2022 ( Week 1 - Week 3 )

Michelle Angeline Gunawan / 0349760 / Bachelor of Design in Creative Media
Information Design
Exercise 2 : L.A.T.C.H

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INSTRUCTIONS

Location / Alphabet / Time / Category / Hierarchy

Organize a group of information into a visual poster that combined and utilizes the LATCH principles (min. 4)
Requirements: 
Size resolution: 1240 × 1750 pixels or 2048 × 2048 pixels
Use a digital photo editing / illustration software available to assemble the pokemons into a LATCH infographic poster. You can re-use back the images of the monsters, but do create the rest of your own visuals to complete the poster. 

Progress

Firstly I looked up on the internet about Pokemon on this website :
https://pokemondb.net/pokedex/

I chose 4 elements of Pokemon. Water, grass, fire and fairy. I looked up each Pokemon and decided to chose these:

• Water :
  Squirtle - Wartortle - Blastoise 
  
  
  
  Figure 1.1 Water Pokemon Evolution Chart
  
  
• Grass :
  Bulbasaur - Ivysaur - Venusaur
  
  
  
  Figure 1.2 Grass Pokemon Evolution Chart
  
  
• Fire :
  Charmander - Charmeleon - Charizard
  
  
  
  Figure 1.3 Fire Pokemon Evolution Chart
  
  
• Fairy :
  Cleffa - Clefairy - Clefable
  
  
  
  Figure 1.4 Fairy Pokemon Evolution Chart
  
  

And then I got inspired to do pixel art, so I went to Youtube to find a tutorial about how to make pixel art in Adobe Illustrator and this is the video.

To be able to create pixel art in Adobe Illustrator, we need to use the rectangular grid tool.

Figure 1.5 Rectangular Grid Tool

And then we adjust the pixel that we want. I adjusted it according to the file size which is 1240 pixels x 1750 pixels.

Figure 1.6 Rectangular Grid Tool Settings

And then I started to draw a floating island using the tool. We need to press "k" to be able to draw on the grid.

Figure 1.7 Rectangular Grid Tool Drawing

This is the floating Island that I made using the rectangular grid tool.

Figure 1.8 Floating Island

For the Pokemons, I went to a website called Pixel Art Maker and downloaded the PNG file there.

Figure 1.9 Pixel Art Maker Website

Then I divided the location to each Pokemons with their elements.

Figure 1.10 Fire Element Location

Figure 1.11 Fairy Element Location

Figure 1.12 Grass Element Location

Figure 1.13 Water Element Location

Then I arranged the pokemon. First I made 4 squares with different shades of white and gray. The darker the gray the highest the revolution level. And then I put the element on the top left square to indicate the pokemons' element. After that I put the pokemon into the squared and put arrows to indicate the revolution level. And then I put their names and their national number one by one.

Figure 1.14 Progress

Then I added some white pokeballs and decrease the opacity.

Figure 1.15 Pokeball

I added pixelated Pokemon logo and added description about the infographic.

Figure 1.16 Infographic Description

And Lastly I added each location a name.

Figure 1.17 Location name

Final Result

This is the final result for my exercise 2.

Figure 1.18 Exercise 2 Final Result in JPEG


Figure 1.19 Exercise 2 Final Result in PDF

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FEEDBACKS

Specific Feedback : Straight forward and good use of colour scheme.