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Data Visualization and Information Design: Create a Visual Model

Visual Inspiration

A course by Federica Fragapane , Information Designer

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Audio: English, French, Italian, Portuguese

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About the video: Visual Inspiration

Overview

“In this lesson, I’ll show you how I look for inspiration, especially from domains not related to data visualization. It will help us in designing new visual languages and also in finding a visual style.”

In this video lesson Federica Fragapane addresses the topic: Visual Inspiration, which is part of the Domestika online course: Data Visualization and Information Design: Create a Visual Model. Bring clarity to complexity by creating an engaging data visualization piece that communicates information with ease.

Partial transcription of the video

“In this lesson, I'm going to show you how I look for visual inspiration, especially from words that are not related to data visualization. This can help us in designing our own visual alphabet and also in finding your own visual style. The inspiration phase is very important to me. I constantly look for visual inspiration, not only when I have to start a new project, but basically every day. I really love to pay attention to the visual elements and to understand which shapes and textures my eyes are attracted to, because then I like to work on them, thinking about the impact they could have...”

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Course summary for: Data Visualization and Information Design: Create a Visual Model

Level: Beginner
99% positive reviews (947)
40029 students
4 units
17 lessons (2h 21m)
11 downloads

Category
Design
Software
Adobe Illustrator
Areas
Infographics, Information Design, Interactive Design

Federica Fragapane

A course by Federica Fragapane

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Information Designer

Federica Fragapane is an award-winning information designer based in Italy with a decade of experience. Her work bridges the gap between emotion, empathy, and information. Federica is also the creative force behind Google’s data visualization project The Shape of Dreams.

She has collaborated with organizations like the United Nations, BBC Science Focus, Wired, and Scientific American. Federica coauthored Planet Earth for NatGeoKIDS and Geopolitical Atlas of Water. In 2018, Federica was also invited to speak at OpenVis Conf in Paris and TEDxVerona, as well as EU DataViz at the Publications Office of the EU in 2019, and a virtual lecture at Design Lab, Harvard University in 2021. She also works with La Lettura, the cultural segment of the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera.