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INFOGRAPHICS

Beginning Infographics: Information Driven Storytelling
An Online Skillshare Class by Liz Meyer & Gavin Potenza
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TOOLS FOR CREATING INFOGRAPHICS

google drawing (in Google drive)
easelly
Piktochart.com

Venngage


20 Tools to Create Your Infographic

HOW TO: 

CHOOSE YOUR "WEAPON"
Most experts agree that there are essentially EIGHT types of infographic styles. Which one you choose depends on what you are trying to communicate. 
8 Types of Infographics

FIRST STEPS
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Before you do any designing....get your "factoids" or "bytes" of info together. 
One suggestion: put all your quotes, data bits, factoids in a row. 
Decide which facts HAVE to be in your design.
Then decide which other facts "tell the story" of your infographic.



HOW TO MAKE AN INFOGRAPHIC

             adapted and modified from Anatomy of an Infographic. Used with permission. 

“A good infographic will not confuse you and make you feel like an idiot” Sneh Roy

An infographic is a visual representation of data, and and your thesis.
Elements:  
1- VISUAL:  color coding, graphics, icons that represent information
2- CONTENT: statistics, time frames, icons
3- KNOWLEDGE: your facts, your deductions, your knowledge about your topic
4- THEME: tells readers what you wish them to know at a glance

Level 1:  = simple, gives the ‘big idea’ but not much more [like a poster]
Level 2: = more complex, color coding; uses statistics, notes which give additional data;  
Important to use color, icons, graphics, groupings, time-frame etc.




EXAMPLES: 
How Google Works
How to be a Superhero
The Shape of Stories by Kurt Vonnegut
Why Your Brain Craves Infographics




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