2014
Lynda
Nigel French
1:50
English

Make your data beautiful; turn it into an infographic. Infographics make complicated information easily understandable and visually compelling. In this course, Nigel French memorializes the soldiers and events of World War I, but you can use these lessons to build almost any kind of infographic. Learn how to use Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, and Excel together to analyze and chart the data, plot locations on a map, and build a timeline that simply details a complex sequence of events. Along the way, Nigel explains how to choose fonts and color, create a background image, and finally convert your print graphic into a format suitable for websites.

Introduction
Welcome
Using the exercise files
1. Infographic Overview
Deconstructing the completed infographic
Creating a grid
Setting up a streamlined workflow
Choosing colors and a typeface
Incorporating a background texture
Creating a title treatment
2. Creating the World Map
Re-creating the world map
Creating map insets
Finalizing and positioning map insets
3. Creating the Mobilized Forces and Casualties Diagram
Creating the diagram key
Incorporating a coxcomb chart
Using the Polar Coordinates filter
Adding text to a coxcomb chart
Creating a pie chart
Converting a pie chart to a donut chart
Adding the finishing touches
4. Creating the Graphic for the Falling Dominoes
Modifying the stock image
Adding text to the graphic
Incorporating the dominoes into the master infographic
5. Creating the Timeline
Creating the scale
Adding the type
Adding the faces
6. Creating the Graphic for the Bullet List of Firsts
Setting up the text and vector images
Formatting the text
Exporting the graphic into the master document
7. The Screen Version
Creating a screen version of the infographic
Conclusion
Next steps

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