Course Schedule

Basic Info-graphics

In this 5 days infographics course, you'll explore approaches and concepts in technical illustration and infographics. Working with a skilled illustrator, you'll learn methods for creating instructional illustrations that communicate clearly and effectively.

In this course can expect to learn to:

· Produce a series of infographics that are easily understood, accurate, and creative.

· Create effective, well-designed, attractive graphs in Adobe Illustrator, with consistency in style.

· Construct data visualizations that are easily understood, accurate, and creative.

· Render effective and attractive presentations combining illustrations and words.

· Create illustrations with at least one human figure in a relevant style.

· Apply an understanding of the principles of abstraction, visual hierarchies, and iconography in your work.

· Apply an understanding of the principles of structure, spacial relationships, and scale in your work.

· Produce effective and attractive infographics that combine illustrations and words to explain a process.

· Apply an understanding of the principles of narrative in your work.

  • Introduction
  • Common Infographic Styles
  • Getting good ideas
  • Telling the story
  • The Call to Action
  • Avoiding common pitfalls
  • The design brief
  • The Illustration of Information
  • Visualizing Data
  • Clarifying Visual Information
  • Structure, Spatial Relationships, and Scale
  • Teaching a Process
  • Illustrating Narrative