Creative Infographics: Between Art and Journalism
The encounter with 'me'
A course by Jaime Serra Palou , Infographic Designer
About the video: The encounter with 'me'
Overview
“Can journalistic infography be made with the signature of an author without betraying its main function? I asked myself this question in the mid-nineties. This lesson is the answer. ”
In this video lesson Jaime Serra Palou addresses the topic: The encounter with 'me', 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
“Like the grammatical style of a text makes its author recognizable, or that the framing, the point of view, the perspective can also make us recognizable the author of a photograph, I was wondering if it was possible to do infographics where to put myself as an author, without that being against of the main function of the infographic, which is inform, the contrary, rather than even enhancing it. I've always done work for the sheer pleasure of doing it, like these you see here, who are already quite a few years old or like this book that I made for my son when was born, I started doing 22 y...”
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Course summary for: Creative Infographics: Between Art and Journalism
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Areas
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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