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- Infographics
With Amy Balliett Liked by 4,124 users
Duration: 2h 14m Skill level: Beginner + Intermediate Released: 7/29/2021
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Course details
To create a truly successful infographic, you must understand the power of visual communication. Properly executed visuals can connect with an audience faster than any other form of communication. In this course, Amy Balliett, CEO and Founder of Killer Visual Strategies, shows you how to create engaging and successful infographics that stand out from the crowd. Amy shows you how to dissect a bad infographic, to learn what not to do. She shows you how visual communication shines through, even in infographics that aren’t in your native language, then goes over how to leverage visual cues and hooks. Amy introduces the five Ws that you need to identify when designing your infographic and explains why it’s so important to research before design even starts. She walks you through each step of wireframing your infographic and concludes with putting the full design together in Adobe Illustrator.
Note: This course was created by Killer Visual Strategies, a Material Company. We are pleased to host this training in our library.
Skills you’ll gain
- Information Graphics
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Meet the instructor
- Amy Balliett Keynote Speaker | Author | Visual Strategist | Sr. Fellow of Visual Strategy | Board Advisor | Founder
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4.7 out of 5
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Bareng Ramabusa
Bareng Ramabusa
Retail Sales Consultant at Standard Bank Group
5/5 February 22, 2024
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Lorraine McElligott
Lorraine McElligott
Grant Writer & Graphic Designer who specializes in Nonprofit Fundraising
5/5 February 21, 2024
Excellent. I had to slow down or repeat the video to take notes, though.
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Mouhamed salem chamekh
Mouhamed salem chamekh
Journalist | Arabic proofreader/arabic Editor/ Bachelor degree in MediaJournalist | Master's degree in political science from the University of…
4/5 January 10, 2024
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Contents
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- Learn infographic design 2m 50s
- What you will learn 3m 15s
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- Bad infographics 3m 38s
- Review infographics in other languages 2m 37s
- Improving a failing infographic 5m 29s
- Leveraging visual hooks and cues 5m 22s
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- Defining the 5 Ws 3m 31s
- Determine your what 5m 35s
- Determine your who 6m 51s
- Determine your why 4m 37s
- Determine your where 3m 59s
- Determine your when 3m 21s
- Challenge: Let's make a brief 3m 25s
- Solution: Let's reveal that brief 2m 57s
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- This isn't a chicken or egg scenario 4m
- The role of the researcher vs. the designer 2m 44s
- Tone 3m 58s
- Where does research even start? 4m 55s
- Finding primary sources 4m 48s
- Organizing your research 3m 46s
- Challenge: Time to do the research 46s
- Solution: Time to do the research 3m 3s
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- What's the point of a wireframe anyway? 2m 23s
- Adobe Illustrator vs. Photoshop vs. InDesign 3m 54s
- The contents of a good wireframe 2m 47s
- Choosing fonts, illustration style, and colors 5m 6s
- Laying out your infographic design 4m 59s
- Visualizing data and iconography 5m 42s
- Presenting a wireframe 4m 23s
- Challenge: Wireframing your infographic 39s
- Solution: The wireframe we will work with 4m 23s
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- Setting up Adobe Illustrator 2m 39s
- Starting with color 3m 49s
- Customizing your data viz 5m 13s
- Custom illustration is key 3m 50s
- Challenge: Putting it all together 31s
- Solution: First draft infographic revealed 57s
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- Thank you 2m 47s
What’s included
- Practice while you learn 1 exercise file
- Test your knowledge 5 quizzes
- Learn on the go Access on tablet and phone
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