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- Hi, everyone. Thank you so much for taking the time out of your busy day to learn about infographic design. My name is Amy Balliett, I'm the author of the award-winning book "Killer Visual Strategies", as well as the CEO and founder of the agency also called Killer Visual Strategies and formerly called Killer Infographics soon to become Material. When I launched Killer in 2010, infographics were just beginning to take off as a popular content format. At the time, there were a few companies specializing in the craft, which allowed us to carve out a unique niche in the market. Within a couple of years of business, we became the infographic agency of record for some of the world's largest brands and our work still sets the standard in the industry today, about five years into my tenure at Killer, I created my first course on infographic design for LinkedIn Learning, but so much has changed since then. So I knew that it was time to update the course accordingly. Now if you're taking this updated version of the course, you're likely a designer working on behalf of an employer or clients. Alternatively, you might be a solopreneur working to get your business the attention it deserves. Or you could be a brand communicator, potentially a marketer, an HR rep, or a brand evangelist, hoping to increase your skillset so that you can make infographics for your own communication needs. And this course well it's for all of you. Now that being said, there will be times throughout the course that I refer to your client or stakeholders or something like that, even though you might not be serving a client. This is because almost every infographic out there has at least one stakeholder beyond the intended audience. That stakeholder might be a boss, a colleague, a partner, or a client. Now because there are a variety of potential stakeholders. I'm going to use the term client and stakeholder interchangeably, but don't let that deter you if you're your own client in the end, especially since it means that you have one less person to appease in the process. So with all this said, let's go ahead and dive in to the updated version of Learning Infographic Design. A course that combines over a decade of experience, creating successful infographics with the largest brands in the world.

Contents

    • Learn infographic design 2m 50s
    • What you will learn 3m 15s
    • Bad infographics 3m 38s
    • Review infographics in other languages 2m 37s
    • Improving a failing infographic 5m 29s
    • Leveraging visual hooks and cues 5m 22s
    • Defining the 5 Ws 3m 31s
    • Determine your what 5m 35s
    • Determine your who 6m 51s
    • Determine your why 4m 37s
    • Determine your where 3m 59s
    • Determine your when 3m 21s
    • Challenge: Let's make a brief 3m 25s
    • Solution: Let's reveal that brief 2m 57s
    • This isn't a chicken or egg scenario 4m
    • The role of the researcher vs. the designer 2m 44s
    • Tone 3m 58s
    • Where does research even start? 4m 55s
    • Finding primary sources 4m 48s
    • Organizing your research 3m 46s
    • Challenge: Time to do the research 46s
    • Solution: Time to do the research 3m 3s
    • What's the point of a wireframe anyway? 2m 23s
    • Adobe Illustrator vs. Photoshop vs. InDesign 3m 54s
    • The contents of a good wireframe 2m 47s
    • Choosing fonts, illustration style, and colors 5m 6s
    • Laying out your infographic design 4m 59s
    • Visualizing data and iconography 5m 42s
    • Presenting a wireframe 4m 23s
    • Challenge: Wireframing your infographic 39s
    • Solution: The wireframe we will work with 4m 23s
    • Setting up Adobe Illustrator 2m 39s
    • Starting with color 3m 49s
    • Customizing your data viz 5m 13s
    • Custom illustration is key 3m 50s
    • Challenge: Putting it all together 31s
    • Solution: First draft infographic revealed 57s
    • Thank you 2m 47s
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