Learning Infographic Design
Release date:2021
Author:Amy Balliett
Skill level:Beginner
Language:English
Exercise files:Yes
Over 10,000 infographics are released online everyday, but less than 1% see any real success. To create a successful infographic, you can’t combine any text and imagery and call it a day. Infographics aren’t just eye candy! It’s when designers truly understand the power of visual communication that their infographics break through. Using a few basic design guidelines, they can illustrate big problems in clear language, distill complex ideas, and call attention to overlooked issues.
In this course, Amy Balliett, CEO of Killer Infographics, shows members how to create engaging and successful infographics that will stand out from the crowd. She explains the science behind good visual communication, reviews the different types of infographics, and introduces design principles and techniques that will help you build engaging and successful infographics.
[1] Introduction
[1] Learn infographic design
[2] What you will learn
[2] 1. What Makes a Great Infographic
[1] Bad infographics
[2] Review infographics in other languages
[3] Improving a failing infographic
[4] Leveraging visual hooks and cues
[3] 2. The Five Ws of Success
[1] Defining the 5 Ws
[2] Determine your what
[3] Determine your who
[4] Determine your why
[5] Determine your where
[6] Determine your when
[7] Challenge Lets make a brief
[8] Solution Lets reveal that brief
[4] 3. Crafting Your Narrative Research 101
[1] This isnt a chicken or egg scenario
[2] The role of the researcher vs. the designer
[3] Tone
[4] Where does research even start
[5] Finding primary sources
[6] Organizing your research
[7] Challenge Time to do the research
[8] Solution Time to do the research
[5] 4. Wireframing Your Infographic
[1] Whats the point of a wireframe anyway
[2] Adobe Illustrator vs. Photoshop vs. InDesign
[3] The contents of a good wireframe
[4] Choosing fonts, illustration style, and colors
[5] Laying out your infographic design
[6] Visualizing data and iconography
[7] Presenting a wireframe
[8] Challenge Wireframing your infographic
[9] Solution The wireframe we will work with
[6] 5. Let’s Design an Infographic
[1] Setting up Adobe Illustrator
[2] Starting with color
[3] Customizing your data viz
[4] Custom illustration is key
[5] Challenge Putting it all together
[6] Solution First draft infographic revealed
[7] Conclusion
[1] Thank you
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