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Creating Illustrator Infographics

via LinkedIn Learning

Overview

Discover how to design professional charts, graphs, and other infographic elements in Adobe Illustrator.

Infographics are everywhere. These data-driven illustrations visualize your data and help to tell the story behind it. In this course, Tony Harmer shows how to design charts, graphs, and other infographic components in Adobe Illustrator. He explains how to develop your core skills—including the ability to customize standard charts and manage large documents—and reveals the key components of a great information design. He then takes you through the various types of charts and graphs that you can use in infographic production, before wrapping with some tips for exporting your final product and sourcing and refining your data.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Illustrator infographics
  • Prerequisite advice
1. Designing Infographics
  • What are infographics?
  • Infographics: How to get started
  • Considerations for the design phase
  • Infographic skills: An overview
  • Document settings for infographics
  • Creating a columnar layout
  • Build wireframing helpers
  • Benefits of wireframing
  • Choosing colors
  • Choosing type
2. Infographics Skills
  • Creating type styles
  • Using graphic styles
  • Using opacity and clipping masks
  • Using symbols
  • Dynamic symbols
  • Symbolism tools
  • Nine-slice scaling
  • Isometric projections
  • Callouts and pointers
  • Creating a timeline
3. Making Charts and Graphs
  • Anatomy of a chart
  • Using data with Illustrator
  • Column and bar charts
  • Stacked columns and bars
  • Pie and bubble charts
  • Line graphs
  • Area graphs
  • Scatter plots
  • Radar plots
  • Combining chart types
4. Extending Illustrator Charts
  • Creating a column design
  • Creating a data marker
  • Creating a donut chart
  • Creating a radial bar chart
  • Creating a Nightingale rose chart
  • Creating a ribbon bar chart
  • Spreadsheet apps as a starting point
5. Pulling It All Together
  • Assembling a layout with linked files
6. Export Options
  • Print
  • Digital
  • SVG
7. Data
  • Online data sources
  • Companion tools
  • Pivot tables
Conclusion
  • Handy references
  • Other useful courses
  • Connecting with the author

Taught by

Tony Harmer

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