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Data Visualization: Design Infographics in Illustrator

Sketching Out Our Creativity

A course by Marco Giannini , Data journalist and Information Designer

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6,084 students

Audio: English

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About the video: Sketching Out Our Creativity

Overview

“Now we will focus on organizing all the quantitative information provided in our dataset. You'll see how I go about sketching the different options I have and ruling out the ones that don't work.”

In this video lesson Marco Giannini addresses the topic: Sketching Out Our Creativity, which is part of the Domestika online course: Data Visualization: Design Infographics in Illustrator. Learn how to communicate complex information through meaningful data-driven images.

Partial transcription of the video

“ Sketching Out Our Creativity In this lesson, I'll sketch my mind process in front of you to give an example of how to organize the content into visualization. It will be quite a detailed path and it's important you retain some information from the previous lesson to follow me. At the end of the last lesson, we selected a stack of chart types that we see here again. Let's check what options we have. Our main message concerns the celebrities' earnings ranked from the highest to the lowest. I come back to the dataset, select the 2020 earnings column, and filter it from the highest to the low...”

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Course summary for: Data Visualization: Design Infographics in Illustrator

Level: Beginner
99% positive reviews (85)
6084 students
4 units
20 lessons (3h 11m)
12 downloads

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

Marco Giannini

A course by Marco Giannini

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Data journalist and Information Designer

Marco Giannini has worked as a data journalist and information designer for over 20 years. In the early part of his career, he worked in the infographic sector of the largest Italian newspaper, La Repubblica working as a designer, despite not studying design. He later taught himself programming and studied code as the data visualization sector progressed. Marco is passionate about discovering ways to connect data with images to make understandable and dynamic designs.

Since he started in his field, Marco has experimented with many types of information visualizations across various projects; from newspapers and magazines, to websites and apps. In 2018 he founded his own agency and creative studio, Dataspoiler, and has since worked with international organizations, communication agencies, publishing groups, and exhibitions. His clients include the IUCN, MSF (Doctors Without Borders), WWF, Aurum Press, and Bracco.