
Explore narrative infographics and learn to craft visuals that tell a story with supporting text, following a step by step process to create engaging and easy to perceive graphics.
create a narrative infographics scene by placing icons in a simple, harmonious setting that supports the infographic text, using health or flu treatment examples and sketch ideas for feedback.
Outline your goals first, then collect credible data, visualize the data with charts and icons, lay out the graphic, and finish with thoughtful color, fonts, and shapes.
Set clear, concrete goals for your infographic to streamline the message, highlight essential information, and tell a specific story by framing a burning question and supporting points.
Learn how to use contrast, color, size, shape, and alignment to create hierarchy, grouping, and sequence in infographics, guiding viewers from left to right and top to bottom.
Find and select icons to illustrate each information piece, creating a cohesive graphic scene with a consistent style, using free icons and crediting licenses such as Creative Commons attribution.
Choose color balance before you start, select colors relevant to your infographic, and limit to five colors; use Adobe Color to build palettes, such as black, white, red, and green.
Place icons in a blank canvas, sketch a simple scene, and use consistent color to tell a story with dramatic, expressive graphics. Connect blocks with lines to clarify the message.
Start with what viewers gain, use icons to answer questions, then lay out in a symmetrical grid with left-to-right, top-to-bottom flow, and center column or two-column layouts with even spacing.
Learn how to present data visually in infographics by matching goals (inform, compare, show change, reveal relationships) to the right charts, from bar and line charts to pies and maps.
Create aesthetically pleasing infographics by applying repetition, consistency, and alignment to reinforce the grid, emphasize headers, manage negative space, and use neutrals with color to highlight information.
Drive interest with a PowerPoint workflow that builds an infographic by defining four rooms with lines, placing and resizing icons, and duplicating elements to convey spatial layout and message.
Create a final infographic that connects text blocks to images with lines, outlining the goal and data collection. Choose effective visualizations to explain complex ideas and tell the topic's story.
During this course we'll be looking at a real world issue nowadays [the spread of viruses] and learn how to create amazing infographics that display great visual representation, being creative and eye-catching. You will work through understanding your topic, learn how to tell a story, and how to use style and color scheme to maintain a visual hierarchy. This is the perfect opportunity to test yourself with a simple yet beautifully put together infographic.
What you’ll learn:
- Develop your visual graphic through research and sketching
- Design a simple yet concise infographic
Your assignment for this course: Create an infographic with at least 10 icons that will convey a message or raise awareness. Use what you learned about how to best represent different kinds of information. Be creative and have fun assembling the elements relevant to the story icons into a big cohesive graphic.
The infographic can be done through any software you are familiar with I will be using Power Point. You can use: Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Excel, Prezi, Tableau, or just pen and paper.
I am mainly working with already made icons from IconFinder in order to create the infographic. I will take you through the research, icon finding, (sketching), layout, electronic development and finally adding style.
Also:
1. Post your project in the QA section with your process so everyone can help each other with their progress and provide constructive criticism.
2. Feel free to post any questions.