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Effective Data Visualization: Transform Information into Art

Incorporating the Elements into Your Design 1

A course by Sonja Kuijpers , Data Illustrator

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About the video: Incorporating the Elements into Your Design 1

Overview

“It's time to arrange the parts, bring in extra layers of information, and mix it all to the desired result.”

In this video lesson Sonja Kuijpers addresses the topic: Incorporating the Elements into Your Design 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Effective Data Visualization: Transform Information into Art. Learn to effectively bring data to life with creative shapes, colors, and layouts.

Partial transcription of the video

“Incorporating the Elements into Your Design In this lesson, we'll take the elements into a canvas, and arrange them in a layout. On a lot of artboard, I started working with the data on the chapters. For the length of the chapters, the text, I created circles from the graph in Excel. I've scaled them a bit and I'm looking for ways to present them on our canvas. This is chapter one, chapter two, chapter three, and so on. I want to see how proportions are, and how I can arrange them on the poster. See if it fits and doesn't look too weird with strange big ones. See if they look nice when I ar...”

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Course summary for: Effective Data Visualization: Transform Information into Art

Level: Beginner
97% positive reviews (146)
9624 students
4 units
14 lessons (1h 43m)
7 downloads

Category
Design
Areas
Graphic Design, Infographics, Information Design, Interactive Design

Sonja Kuijpers

A course by Sonja Kuijpers

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Data Illustrator

Sonja Kuijpers is an award-winning data illustrator based in The Netherlands. Growing up in a small town meant Sonja was always on the lookout for a creative outlet. She began drawing at a young age before going on to study advertising and public space design. After graduating, she worked as a designer at a landscape design firm before developing an interest in information design that kick started her career.

Sonja currently runs STUDIO TERP, a one-woman data illustration studio where she specializes in making challenging data easy to understand as well as visually engaging. She has worked with clients such as Philips, the Dutch government, Scientific American, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Friends of the High Line in New York, and F19 Digital Reporting, and has also been recognized multiple times by the Information is Beautiful Awards.