Data Visualization and Information Design: Create a Visual Model
Editing with Adobe Illustrator 1
A course by Federica Fragapane , Information Designer
Joined January 2021
About the video: Editing with Adobe Illustrator 1
Overview
“In this lesson, I’ll show you how to use Adobe Illustrator to edit the visualization created with RAWGraphs and add more layers of information to it.”
In this video lesson Federica Fragapane addresses the topic: Editing with Adobe Illustrator 1, 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 to use Adobe Illustrator to edit our graphics and also to add more layers of information to it. Let's do it. This is our illustrator file. you're going to find this file template in the attachments section. You see that I've already created three layers. You will find them in the file. the background layer, but now I want to block it because I don't need it the visualization layer where we are going to put our graphic design with raw, and then these will be for the legend and explanatory text. So the first thing that I want to do is importing our SV...”
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Course summary for: Data Visualization and Information Design: Create a Visual Model
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Category
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Software
Adobe Illustrator -
Areas
Infographics, Information Design, Interactive Design

Federica Fragapane
A course by Federica Fragapane
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.
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