Sunday Funnies – Experiments in Visual Writing

Detail of cocktail recipe construction chart

Sunday Funnies 9: Assemblies

April 5, 2015 8 comments

For your next Sunday Funnies assignment, choose some compound thing from your life and break it down into its component parts, represented in some sort of an architectural diagram like this one.

A mixed gorilla face made by sketching around audio headphone cans

Sunday Funnies 8: Sunday sketches

March 30, 2015 14 comments

Christoph Niemann is an illustrator, artist, and author whose work regularly appears in the New York Times, the New Yorker, and elsewhere. He’s got a

Screen capture of multiple pages of Tom Phillips' Humument

Sunday Funnies 7: A Human Document

March 22, 2015 14 comments

For this week’s funnies assignment, I want you to create your own visual poem-thing. You can find your own page to alter if you’d like, but I’ll bring in an old used book that you can take pages from too. Think of it as sort of a collaboration between yourself and the book’s original author or think of it as a game where you get to create new text but within the strict confines of the text available on the page.

Detail of Zen Pencil's illustration of Bill Watterson quote

Sunday Funnies 6: Visualize a Quote

March 17, 2015 18 comments

Due: 3/22 First, a little bit of inspiration: Take a look at some of the comics that Zen Pencils creates by taking an interesting quote

Map of Iran with diagram of places visited

Sunday Funnies 5: Mapping Tracing Persepolis

February 27, 2015 8 comments

Your primary purpose with this Sunday Funnies assignment is to create a visualization that will help your classmate to see his or her argument as clearly as possible so that opportunities for revision become clear. Your peer should be able to hold your visualization up against his or her project and use it as a tool to ask whether the argument is laid out as clearly as possible, whether claims are fully supported, whether there are additional points to pursue from here, and whether the argument is convincing.

Screenshot of Google image search for "best infographic makers"

Sunday Funnies 4: Daily Routine Infographic

February 13, 2015 3 comments

Due: 2/15 Last week, you tracked your daily schedule using the 7 categories we agreed upon as a class. Now it’s time for you to turn