Creative Infographics: Between Art and Journalism
The choice of a theme
A course by Jaime Serra Palou , Infographic Designer
About the video: The choice of a theme
Overview
“There are issues that are, in themselves, a guarantee of success. What are they ?, where to find them ?. In this lesson my point of view. ”
In this video lesson Jaime Serra Palou addresses the topic: The choice of a theme, 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
“Within a media outlet, an infographic designer is just another journalist. Use another tool to do your job. It is not the word, it is not the photography, is the mixture of those two elements, is the infographic, but the purpose is the same, is to tell a story. A restless journalist, something that is presupposed in a journalist, It has the capacity, it has the possibility to choose the topics to be covered. At the time of the Clarín newspaper, I felt a predilection for the topics that we always have there, for the almost intrinsically human issues or culturally so ingrained that they might...”
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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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