Editorial Design for Magazines for beginners
The Value of an Infographic
A course by Stefano Cipolla , Journalist and Art Director
About the video: The Value of an Infographic
Overview
“In this lesson I will explore the Infographic topic, which is essential for presenting data and news in a visual way. You will discover how important it is to transfer information directly and immediately thanks to graphic elements such as tables, trends and pictograms.”
In this video lesson Stefano Cipolla addresses the topic: The Value of an Infographic, which is part of the Domestika online course: Editorial Design for Magazines for beginners. Learn the ins and outs of graphic design for magazine articles, from format analysis to text and image layout.
Partial transcription of the video
“The value of an infographic In this lesson we will talk about infographics. Infographics are both a verbal and a visual system to communicate information to our readers in the case of newspapers. Said so it seems very difficult, but we actually use an infographic everyday in our normal life. For example, if I am looking for a pharmacy and I see from afar a sign with a green cross, I understand, without reading anything that this will be a pharmacy. Here, the infographic is just that: giving information through a simple graphic sign. In recent years, the infographic has been having a lot of ...”
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Course summary for: Editorial Design for Magazines for beginners
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Areas
Art Direction, Design, Editorial Design, Graphic Design, Information Design
Stefano Cipolla
A course by Stefano Cipolla
Stefano Cipolla is a journalist and art director at the weekly magazine L’Espresso. Although he originally enrolled to study political science, his life-long love of images helped him discover his passion for design, which he decided to pursue at a private graphic design school instead. After several years at an agency, he shifted to freelance work, producing books and magazines, designing exhibitions, and creating ads for brands and events.
Since then, he's worked for different magazines and newspapers such as Il Manifesto, La Repubblica, and L’Espresso, where he's held the position of art director since 2018. He spent 12 years teaching history of graphic design and infographics at the IED in Rome and currently teaches editorial design at the Scuola di giornalismo in Urbino. He also gives lectures and runs workshops at Mimaster in Milan and the IED in Turin.
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