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Visual Communication Basics
Elements of design and making a composition (Line, Shape, Space, Form, Colour, Texture)
Principles of design (Harmony, Balance, Hierarchy, Scale, Emphasis, Contrast, Movement)
Gestalt laws of grouping (Proximity, Similarity, Closure)
Using elements and principles of design for communication (Typography, Hierarchy of information)
Understanding rasters and vectors
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Information Design
Categories of information design
Types of data
Identifying the purpose, choosing the format
Data-ink ratio
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WB2018IN Day 2 V5
Basics of Inkscape
Introduction to vector graphics
Introduction to Inkscape interface
Basic operations (Selecting, moving, scaling, warping and rotating objects/paths, moving them up and down in the z-order (above or below other objects))
Object (rectangles and rounding rectangles)
Paths (converting objects to paths, path operations-group, combine, union, difference, intersection etc.)
Nodes (editing nodes, smoothing them, joining nodes, adding nodes)
Aligning objects
Simple tracing (manual, automatic, picking colours)
Text (editing, kerning, converting to paths-when and why, manual kerning, putting text on paths-curved text)
Other tricks (text shadows, text glow, clipping rasters)
Recommended followup study
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Intermediate Inkscape
Demo of vectorising a raster image (based on WCommons)
Colours (selection, mixing, gradients)
Layers
Clones
Extensions
Filters
Transformations
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SVG Infographics
YouTube VideoWiki tutorial
WB2018IN Day 1 V2
Transformations in Inkscape (plugins)
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WB2018IN Day 1 V4
Multilingual SVGs
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WB2018IN Day 3 V1
Quick revision of basics
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WB2018IN Day 1 V1
Panel Discussion on Design and Open Knowledge Movement
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WB2018IN Day 1 PD