Information graphics (5 cr)
Code: GR00BI92-3003
General information
- Enrollment
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15.08.2020 - 04.09.2020
Registration for the implementation has ended.
- Timing
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01.08.2020 - 31.12.2020
Implementation has ended.
- Number of ECTS credits allocated
- 5 cr
- Local portion
- 4 cr
- Virtual portion
- 1 cr
- RDI portion
- 2 cr
- Mode of delivery
- Blended learning
- Unit
- Department of Culture
- Campus
- Kouvola Campus
- Teaching languages
- Finnish
- Degree programmes
- Degree Programme in Graphic Design
Objective
- you can design clear and sharp information graphics
- you master the visual presentation methods enabled by information graphics
- you are able to design visual information and new innovative solutions
- you understand the importance of information graphics as part of overall communications
- you know the connection between illustration and information graphics
Content
- how to design and simplify information into graphics?
- how to select the tools to solve the task?
- how to design maps, user guides and symbols without words?
- how to visually present qualitative and quantitative information?
Evaluation
- use professional vocabulary and concepts in an expert way in different situa-tions.
- evaluate information sources critically.
- work as team members in working life expert duties and identify and describe the problems of the professional field
- evaluate operations in customer, user and target group situations
- choose appropriate models, methods, software and techniques according to the purpose and justify these choices.
- promote teams goal-oriented operation
- apply critically the ethical principles of the professional field in different situations
Evaluation scale
1-5
Qualifications
Previous graphic design courses.
Further information
Co-requisites:
Illustration project.