Topic(s)
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External link
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WCommons link
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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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SlideShare
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YouTube[1]
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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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SlideShare
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YouTube |
WB2018IN Day 2 V5
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- 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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YouTube[1]
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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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YouTube[1]
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SVG Infographics |
YouTube VideoWiki tutorial |
WB2018IN Day 1 V2
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Transformations in Inkscape (plugins) |
YouTube |
WB2018IN Day 1 V4
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Multilingual SVGs |
YouTube |
WB2018IN Day 3 V1
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Quick revision of basics |
YouTube |
WB2018IN Day 1 V1
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Panel Discussion on Design and Open Knowledge Movement |
YouTube |
WB2018IN Day 1 PD
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