Infographic and Illustrator

Making Infographics to enhance a story

Overview: Infographics are just what the name implies: graphics that display information. There are lots of creative ways to do this. The better you are at designing infographics, the more likely people will engage with your story. You are creating a new "entry point" that enhances your overall design package.


Directions: To help you get used to creating Infographics, we are going to use a new online service that helps you generate cool looking Infographics.

Step 1: Go to http://infogr.am/ to sign-up for an account.

Play with the different features to learn how it works.

Step 2: Go to http://www.statisticbrain.com to find some interesting statistics that you could chart in an Infographic.

Step 3: Select the best type of infographic that will best illustrate the data you have selected.


Step 4: Make sure you have added a headline and all the appropriate labels for your infographic.


Step 5: Post your info graphic to your blog by copying the "Embed code" to your blog. You must switch your blog post to the "HTML" mode when you copy the "Embed code" into your post. If you cannot figure this out, let me know and I will show you.


When you are done with infogr.am, lets try to make our own using illustrator!

You will need to do any of these tutorials and post your efforts on your blog for credit on this assignment. Please remember that the object of this is to help you learn how to create art for the newspaper, so try to find tutorials that help with that task.

Here are some links and both have clickable links to other tutorials and sites so click away!!:

https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/tutorials.html

http://blog.spoongraphics.co.uk/articles/20-basic-illustrator-tutorials-every-beginner-should-see

http://www.good-tutorials.com/tutorials/illustrator/basics

You can also just google adobe illustrator tutorials and you will find lots of links.

For your assignment, I would like you to create THREE pieces of art that could be used in the newspaper. You can create straight art, or you can try to create items that use information and come up with an info graphic with text in it.

Here are some ideas, but feel free to come up with your own ideas and plans:

There will be stories in the paper covering these topics:

Why some students are waiting longer to get a driver's license
United Airlines, doctor dragged off the plane
FIT Bits
Sesame Street new autistic character
Bowie recycling
Samurai Jack
Pirates of the Caribbean
13 Reasons why
Snapchat filters

FINAL PIECES MUST BE COMPLETED BY THE END OF NEXT CLASS. You will have about 25 minutes to convert them into .jpegs and post them on your blogs. Then we move on to high dynamic range images.

Do not forget that you should be planning and shooting your final exam ASAP. Also, the Graffiti and Found Objects are also due in just a few classes.

Examples: