Tools, materials, and resources

Collaboration and communication

• This website hosts the schedule, syllabus, and assignment sheets.
• Turn in final projects through Canvas .
• Zoom for videoconferencing (link and password on Canvas .)
• Miro as online whiteboard (password on Canvas .)
• Any critical, all-class messages will go as announcements within Canvas.

Miro critique boards

The password is posted on Canvas . We’ll add additional boards as needed.

• Critique board A

Design and visualization tools

Observable and JavaScript

• Observable
• We are creating visualizations using the Vega-Lite API. See the API reference, examples, and curriculum.

Mapping/GIS

• QGIS, a free/open source GIS (available in Katzen)

Spreadsheets

• Excel, Numbers.app, Google Sheets, and OpenOffice are all fine.

Color

• Adobe Color
• Colorpicker for data

Adobe Creative Cloud

The Art Department/Design Program provides students with access to Adobe Creative Cloud software in the Katzen design labs.

Illustrator tutorials

If you’re new or moderately-skilled with Illustrator, start working through the tutorials on LinkedIn Learning. Here’s a list of the most relevant tutorials for this course.