Information Design: Storytelling with Data in Illustrator
From Paper to Pixels
A course by Valentina D'Efilippo , Designer and Creative Director
Joined August 2021
Joined August 2021
About the video: From Paper to Pixels
Overview
“Most of the final outputs will not remain as sketches but will need to be transferred into digital outcomes. In this lesson, I'll introduce a couple of free in-browser tools you can explore to expand your toolkit: RAWGraphs and Data Illustrator. What you use will depend on the design you wish to create and the type of data you have. I'll demonstrate how to use Data Illustrator to visualise the structure of your encoding system.”
In this video lesson Valentina D'Efilippo addresses the topic: From Paper to Pixels, which is part of the Domestika online course: Information Design: Storytelling with Data in Illustrator. Explore the art of data visualization by learning to transform data into compelling and easy-to-read infographics.
Partial transcription of the video
“In this lesson, we're going to be looking at how we're going to transform our ideas, our sketches, into pixels. As we've seen data visualization becoming really popular in the last decades, we've also seen a proliferation of tools. and you can go about executing your idea as you prefer. If you're already experienced in a specific tool, feel free to use that. I'm gonna show you a couple of tools in the resources you will find more. And depending on the type of data you might prefer one tool versus another. Let's go. Two of the free tools that I use most frequently are raw graphs. and Data Il...”
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Course summary for: Information Design: Storytelling with Data in Illustrator
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Areas
Graphic Design, Infographics, Information Design, Interactive Design
Valentina D'Efilippo
A course by Valentina D'Efilippo
Valentina D'Efilippo is a designer and creative director based in London. Her area of expertise is focused on information design and data visualization. Her work takes many forms, from theater productions, exhibitions, editorial content, to interactive platforms.
Over the last 15 years, she has worked with public organizations, start-ups, agencies, global brands, and news media. Her clients include The Guardian, The Economist, BBC, Wired, BBC Science Focus, Scientific American, Siemens, and BCG. In 2013, she published The Infographic History of the World, which is available in eleven different languages. The book is the first attempt to illustrate history and human evolution through data visualization and infographic storytelling.
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