Assignment 02
New Skill: Production

Throughout the next two weeks continue to practice your skill. Research and document your progress with a newly created instagram account. Your account should have 100 posts by the end of the project. These can be loose documentation of your skill building in progress. Record snippets and videos along the way.
Now that you’ve practiced your newly learned skill, use the language of design to more thoroughly communicate the steps involved to teach this skill to others. Consider how you would like to present your information, be it through illustration, photography, text, etc.
Design a printed guide or a one minute video that explains and informs us about your skill. It can be more manual driven, with steps clearly illustrated. It can also be abstract. Consider what your skill is, and how you think it can be learned or expressed to others.
Next class, have 50 posts on your Instagram account, design your printed piece or edit you new video and show us how you plan to finish it. Be smart and resourceful here, and while learning your skill don’t let the research and design component fall behind.

Yasmeen S. Alsagoubi !
Mara E. Bailey
Man Sze Cheung
Hae Jee Choi !
Zishun Gao
Sunhong Kim !
Shinwon Lee
Fangrui Liu !
Christina M. Lomonaco
Judith C. Luo
Zack Luo
Julie A. Martin-Moons
Alejandro Ordonez Gamboa
So Yeon Park
Olivia B. Shank
Zipeng Shi
Yu Sun !
Irene Tsay
Isabel C. Yayla
Mengyuan Zhan !





Background
Ikea assembly instructions are an example of a simple, step by step graphic language. Their clear, uniform illustrations and visual directions help people of all languages and backgrounds assemble their pre-fabricated furniture.







Background
Ruben Pater is a Amsterdam based designer. His 2012 foldable poster ‘drone survival guide’ is a manual of sorts that helps the viewer identify and conceal themselves from drones in the sky.
"I created a document that shows the silhouettes of the 27 best known military drones, all to scale, and lists the countries that use them. It also lists a series of countermeasures to avoid detection by the drones’ sensors, and how to disrupt them. Designed as a folded document, it can be carried around at all times. Printed on metallic coated paper, the front side can be used to reflect sunlight and blind the drones’ camera, one of the countermeasures listed. The document can be downloaded, printed and distributed by anyone for free. Originally published in English and Pashto, people are invited to create new translations of the countermeasures, which are posted online. Currently 32 languages are available. The Drone Survival Guide is not useful for survival, for anti-drone warfare, nor is it an act of propaganda. It is made with the sole purpose of sharing information about a phenomenon that is quickly changing warfare, and which many do not yet fully comprehend. The Drone Survival Guide is a citizen initiative, self-funded and made with public information, to balance the information provided by actors with a political or commercial agenda." Read Ruben’s research and process here.