Creating Illustrator Infographics

Discover how to design professional charts, graphs, and other infographic elements in Adobe Illustrator.

Introduction

• Creating Illustrator infographics
• Prerequisite knowledge

1. Basic Infographic Skills

• Skills you need
• Creating layouts
• Choosing colors
• Choosing type
• Appearances
• Graphic styles
• Using symbols
• Nine-slice scaling
• Plan and play: Skills

2. Basic Charts and Graphs

• Chart anatomy
• Using data with Illustrator
• Column and bar charts
• Converting bar chart types
• Line and area graphs
• Scatter plots
• Pie charts
• Multiple pie charts
• Radar plots
• Challenge: Styling
• Solution: Styling

3. Extending Illustrator Charts

• The Importance of live data
• Scaled column designs
• Repeating column designs
• Sliding column designs
• Challenge: Dollaz chart
• Solution: Dollaz chart
• Creating data markers
• Donut chart
• Radial bars
• Bubble charts
• Combining graph types

4. Creating a Timeline

• Plan and play: Timeline
• Establishing scales
• Adding embellishments

5. Creating an Infographic Poster

• Plan and play: Poster
• Using Draw Inside
• Using Opacity Masks
• Creating callouts
• Linked documents

6. Useful Add-ons

• Noun project
• Nimbling SSR30
• Astute Graphics
• Esri maps for Creative Cloud

Conclusion

• Next steps