Creative Data Visualization for Narrative Designs
Adobe Illustrator: Creating the Visualization 2
A course by Federica Fragapane , Information Designer
Joined January 2021
Joined January 2021
About the video: Adobe Illustrator: Creating the Visualization 2
Overview
“In the second part of this lesson, I will create a leaf-shaped design that will represent the data I collected about consumption per capita. To develop effective visuals, you may need to simplify your data. I will show you how to do this. ”
In this video lesson Federica Fragapane addresses the topic: Adobe Illustrator: Creating the Visualization 2, 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
“ Adobe Illustrator: Creating the Visualization I created this curve and I'm satisfied with it. Now, I'll show you how we can use it to have something that requires the leaves I was looking at before. Coming back to them, I like these leaves. These shapes here and these leaves here, because they're made out of many lines. They're very dense and are made of more lines. Same as in this case and in this example. I want to replicate something like that. A tool that I use to obtain a similar effect is this one. Let me show it to you. I go to Effect, then I go to Distort & Transform, and click on...”
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Course summary for: Creative Data Visualization for Narrative Designs
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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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