Learning Infographic Design (2015)

Find out what constitutes visual communication and how to use it in the best possible way to create successful infographics.

Introduction

• Learn infographic design
• What you will learn

1. What Makes a Great Infographic

• Bad infographics
• Review infographics in other languages
• Improving a failing infographic
• Leveraging visual hooks and cues

2. The Five Ws of Success

• Defining the 5 Ws
• Determine your what
• Determine your who
• Determine your why
• Determine your where
• Determine your when
• Challenge: Let's make a brief
• Solution: Let's reveal that brief

3. Crafting Your Narrative / Research 101

• This isn't a chicken or egg scenario
• The role of the researcher vs. the designer
• Tone
• Where does research even start?
• Finding primary sources
• Organizing your research
• Challenge: Time to do the research
• Solution: Time to do the research

4. Wireframing Your Infographic

• What's the point of a wireframe anyway?
• Adobe Illustrator vs. Photoshop vs. InDesign
• The contents of a good wireframe
• Choosing fonts, illustration style, and colors
• Laying out your infographic design
• Visualizing data and iconography
• Presenting a wireframe
• Challenge: Wireframing your infographic
• Solution: The wireframe we will work with

5. Let's Design an Infographic

• Setting up Adobe Illustrator
• Starting with color
• Customizing your data viz
• Custom illustration is key
• Challenge: Putting it all together
• Solution: First draft infographic revealed

Conclusion

• Thank you