Creative Infographics: Between Art and Journalism
Aesthetics as ethics
A course by Jaime Serra Palou , Infographic Designer
About the video: Aesthetics as ethics
Overview
“Why are all journalistic infographics aesthetically the same? I explain how I took the first step - unconsciously, pushed by boredom and with the sole purpose of having fun - on how to enhance the informative content of an infographic by using an aesthetic appropriate to each subject. ”
In this video lesson Jaime Serra Palou addresses the topic: Aesthetics as ethics, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creative Infographics: Between Art and Journalism. Learn to visualize data in an artistic way through images and text.
Partial transcription of the video
“In the late 1980s, I worked as a freelance illustrator for some publications and advertising agencies. Among my regular clients was El Periódico de Catalunya, which is a young newspaper in the city in which he published weekly vignettes. As we are talking about the Upper Paleolithic, I had to go weekly to deliver the originals, Internet did not exist yet. And on one of those visits, the art director of that time asked me on whether he knew any infographist because they were creating the infographic department. I was dumbfounded at the word infographist, infographic, I didn't know what we we...”
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Course summary for: Creative Infographics: Between Art and Journalism
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Communication, Infographics, Information Design
Jaime Serra Palou
A course by Jaime Serra Palou
Jaime Serra has over 25 years' professional experience in the journalism industry working with infographics. He started his career in the mid '80s, when infographics were first being used as a journalistic tool. A decade later, he contributed to revolutionizing the infographics industry while working for the Argentinian newspaper Clarín. Twenty years later, he was recognized by the Society For News Design as the most influential infographics artist in the world during the period of 1992-2002.
He has been a creator, director, and consultant for prestigious media companies and their infographic departments in Latin America and Europe, including Clarín (Argentina, 1995-2001) and La Vanguardia (Spain, 2008-2018).
He also showcases his work in contemporary art spaces and publications for international media outlets, such as El Mundo (Spain), O Globo (Brazil), La Nación (Argentina) and El Financiero (Mexico).
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