Creativity involved in the making of the Infographic

Posted by on Jan 31, 2015 in Blog, Infographic

Creativity

This week I made a lot of progress on creatively thinking about what I want my infographic to look like. From the class activity using words to describe the infographic to pictures people drew to go along with those words I was able to come up with a few graphics I want to create and include in the final infographic.

This past week I also decided on what five tips I want to include on the infographic.

 

Five steps to taking a better picture

  1. Use focus to your advantage. Depending on what you focus on can change the whole meaning of the picture.
  2. Use the light source to your advantage. Always have the subject facing the light source so you don’t get shadows.
  3. Use the rule of thirds. In your mind you will want to divide your image into thirds. Where the lines intersect is where you want to place you subject.
  4. Background. Work with the environment find the best background you can for each situation you are in. The location of a picture and angle can make a huge difference in a picture.
  5. Experiment. If you see something you like try it. Don’t be afraid to try something new if you don’t try then you will never become better.

If for what ever reason after I start designing the infographic in illustrator and I feel like its missing something I will probably add a couple of more tips.

Sketches

I also started sketching and have a few ideas for the overall layout and also some simple pictures I want to use as vectors. I will probably use my first idea for the layout and do polaroids down the page at different angles and each of the polaroids will have a different tip and then a graphic inside the polaroid.

sketches of possible info graphics
polaroid

 

Background Color

For the background of the infographic I am going to use this nice blue its not too light or too dark so I think it will look nice as a background.

light blue color swatch

 

Time line

Jan 23- Research ideas & choose a topic

Jan 26- Gather data or information for graphic

Jan 29- Plan out and sketch ideas of what the graphic should look like.

Jan 30- Get feed back on my sketches

Jan 31- Use the Infographic generators to get ideas

Feb 3- Start working on creating silhouettes, charts and graphs in Illustrator.

Feb 5- Create layout for the infographic and organize information.

Feb 9- Get feedback on the designs from illustrator

Feb 12- Revise and edit and make ready for presenting.

Feb 19- Have infographic finalized and ready to submit for presentation

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