Creative Data Visualization for Beginners

Creative Direction and Conceptualizing

A course by Gabrielle Merite , Information Designer

100% positive reviews (30)

2,078 students

Audio: English, Spanish

· · · · · · ·

About the video: Creative Direction and Conceptualizing

Overview

“The story is ready! Now, I’ll show you how to start thinking of the visual direction for your data visualization. Then, I will discuss how to look for inspiration across different artistic mediums, design, and photography fields.”

In this video lesson Gabrielle Merite addresses the topic: Creative Direction and Conceptualizing, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creative Data Visualization for Beginners. Learn to create captivating narratives by combining digital illustration and collage techniques to design informative and eye-catching images.

Partial transcription of the video

“ Creative Direction and Conceptualizing In the last lesson, I showed you how to create a brief to summarize your dataset findings. In this lesson, I will show you the method I use to generate creative ideas for my project. I like to use what we call a word map association, and it starts with using just keywords from your theme. Here I'm going to write online dating. I'm going to write anything that comes to mind about the subject. Online for me means phone. Browser. Maybe notifications. It can also mean things like apps, touch. When I think about apps for instance and phones, I also think ...”

This transcript is automatically generated, so it may contain mistakes.

Course summary for: Creative Data Visualization for Beginners

Level: Beginner
100% positive reviews (30)
2078 students
5 units
22 lessons (2h 58m)
5 downloads

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

Gabrielle Merite

A course by Gabrielle Merite

Teacher Plus

Information Designer

Gabrielle Merite is a French information designer living in Los Angeles, who specializes in producing engaging and inspiring data-based imagery. With an educational background in biology and immunology, her desire to have a more immediate impact on society led her to study scientific journalism. Her aim is always the same: to connect with people and incite action about the biggest issues we face today.

Throughout her career, she has collaborated with clients including WeTransfer, the MIT Technology Review, the Rand Corporation, and the United Nations. Gabrielle also produces personal projects on topics close to her heart, such as gender inequality, racial disparity, and climate change. She is especially dedicated to helping ethically driven organizations communicate their analytics with honesty, rawness, and compassion.