Creative Data Visualization for Narrative Designs
The Legend and the Text 1
A course by Federica Fragapane , Information Designer
Joined January 2021
Joined January 2021
About the video: The Legend and the Text 1
Overview
“In this lesson, I will demonstrate how to work on the key elements that will help the readers to use and navigate the piece: the legend and the explanatory text.”
In this video lesson Federica Fragapane addresses the topic: The Legend and the Text 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creative Data Visualization for Narrative Designs. Embrace the expressiveness of shapes to turn important information into meaningful graphics that tell stories and resonate with an audience.
Partial transcription of the video
“ The Legend and the Text In this lesson, I'll show how I work on the important elements that can help the readers in using our piece, the legend, and the explanatory text. Let's start. Let's start creating some blocks that we'll position where we want to put legend, text, and so on. First of all, I can move everything down a bit. We have space to do it. We already have a placeholder for our title here. I want this to explain what we are looking at, the top 40 countries, and so on. I also want to have a bigger title, which is the title of our storytelling piece or poster. Then I want some e...”
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Course summary for: Creative Data Visualization for Narrative Designs
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Areas
Graphic Design, Infographics, Information Design, Interactive Design
Federica Fragapane
A course by Federica Fragapane
Federica Fragapane is an award-winning information designer based in Italy with a decade of experience. Her work bridges the gap between emotion, empathy, and information. Federica is also the creative force behind Google’s data visualization project The Shape of Dreams.
She has collaborated with organizations like the United Nations, BBC Science Focus, Wired, and Scientific American. Federica coauthored Planet Earth for NatGeoKIDS and Geopolitical Atlas of Water. In 2018, Federica was also invited to speak at OpenVis Conf in Paris and TEDxVerona, as well as EU DataViz at the Publications Office of the EU in 2019, and a virtual lecture at Design Lab, Harvard University in 2021. She also works with La Lettura, the cultural segment of the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera.
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