Information Design - Exercise 1

23.9.2025 - 8.10.2025 / Week 1 - week 3
Omar bin Shafik / 0371439
Information Design / Bachelors of Design in Creative Media
Exercise 1
INSTRUCTIONS


Fig 1, MIB

EXERCISE 1
Quantifiable Information

For the first exercise, we were to gather a set of objects and separate them by a category. We were required to quantify the chosen objects and arrange them into a presentable layout or chart. We were given the tip to think of it as a poster x`

Roughs
I chose Lego bricks as my object to be sorted out. I began by sketching out how I could arrange the bricks in Clip Studio.


Fig 2, Guide


Fig 3, Idea 1


Fig 4, Rough 1


Fig 5, Idea 2

Unsorted Data
These are the unsorted Lego bricks.


Fig 6, Graphic 1

Sorted Data
I first sorted the Lego bricks by sizes, from smallest to biggest.


Fig 7, Graphic 2

I then sorted them out according to colour.


Fig 8, Graphic 3

Final Result
I then tried to arrange the bricks in a less rigid way, while combining both



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