Module 1, Part 4

For my discussion of comic format as an informational tool, I chose "The Adventures of Johnny Bunko", a manga style inspired graphic novel written by Dan Pink exploring right brain thinking and career success.

"Johnny Bunko" explores the working world in an inventive and visually engaging way. The use of images and comic format complement the theme of creative thinking. Instead of dictating through long, dull "walls of text", readers will want to think about the themes as they relate to the characters and situations in the story. Not to mention, using a medium such as a graphic novel allows career advice, usually a dull subject, to be fun and engaging. I read it last year and it is one of the few "success" guides I have ever truly enjoyed reading, and certainly the only one I would read again.

Module 1, Part 3

Here is the "mind map" portion of module 1. I personally found it rather difficult to make an interesting mind map because most of my classes are math and comp sci this semester. As a result it was difficult to communicate the ideas clearly without a lot of words.

Module 1, Part 2

Here is my informational graphic entitled "How to Spot an RPI Freshman":

Module 1, Part 1

Hello again! Unfortunately as of this post I am incredibly sick, so some of module 1 may not go up until tomorrow.

Regardless, here is part 1, an example of a good informational graphic

The graphic conveys the necessary information (yearly coffee expenditures) clearly and concisely. The info is in an easy to follow linear format, and the graphic uses the simple image of different levels of fullness of a coffee cup to demonstrate the percentages visually. Using the coffee cup instead of a pie chart or the like also emphasizes the subject matter. The only problem is it doesn't say what country the information is from, and if one isn't familiar with the monetary units used they would have to go look it up. Since this is technically a webpage, the creators made the assumption that visitors would be from the same country.

Project 1: "Neverlandish Proverbs" Storytelling

For this project I decided to combine 5 pieces of "Neverlandish Proverbs" and a common Internet humor format, the de-motivational poster, to tell a very short but (I feel) relevant story. The image depicts a view of the moral evolution of man as an individual.

This is not to say that we all start as devils, just that at some point during our moral progression we hit a wall, and even for the best of us the line between an ordinary person and a true moral paradigm is very frustrating to pass (so much so one may almost want to bang one's head against a wall).