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Design Considerations – Preparation for Creating a Logo and Infographics
When you begin to design your artwork, you need to consider that each logo and infographic that you create will be unique and different, and if you are creating them for a client whom you have not worked with before, it can be a challenge to know where to begin. You may also be used to creating logos in the past, and now you are creating an infographic for the first time. This chapter will look at some of the main considerations and steps that you can take, either independently or with your team, as you create an infographic for a client. Note This chapter is a discussion on the…
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What Is the Difference Between an Infographic and a Logo? – What Are Infographics?-2
We know who we are going to see (lions, bears, and parrots), we know what is over there (the zoo with jungle plant life), and we know how to get there if we follow the arrow. Other questions like where and when can be answered though this requires extra text for streets, dates, and times. Refer to Figure 1-38. Figure 1-38. A basic pictorial infographic with wildlife on a sign, an arrow, the word zoo, and more text details Why, in this case, would likely be separate graphics such as when or why the zoo was established. Though, in this case, you should know why you want to go to…
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What Is the Difference Between an Infographic and a Logo? – What Are Infographics?-1
Today’s beginner graphic artist, who is training in graphic design, would likely develop a logo first before creating an infographic. Infographics must be more accurate factually, while a logo we can consider more like an ancient stamp. Yes, it represents a company, but in a more abstract and sometimes ambiguous way, it is just a design. What it actually represents may not be important as long as it satisfies the client. This is not to say that creating a logo does not take time and effort. But with an infographic, often the design is more elaborate requiring many components or steps, and you really need to do your research to…
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2001 AD–Present and Modern Infographics – What Are Infographics?
The 2000s and onward have seen many types of infographics being able to be produced more quickly using computer programs like Adobe Illustrator, which allows us to create scalable versions of a design, and Adobe Animate (formerly known as Flash until 2016), which allows us to animate those drawings. Other Adobe applications also added further 3D and video options for the graphic designer. Refer to Figure 1-28. Figure 1-28. Pictorial timeline of 2001 AD to the present For your website coding with HTML 5 and CSS3, along with JavaScript (jQuery) and Chart.js libraries and plug-ins that allow us to create charts and graphs quickly to display data in real time…
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1901 AD–2000 AD – What Are Infographics?-2
More on Kahn’s work can be found on this page: https://hekint.org/2022/03/31/dr-fritz-kahn-and-medical-infographics/ By 1942, besides politics, infographics were by this time covering other topics such as art, culture, poetry, and film. Refer to Figure 1-23. Figure 1-23. Pictorial example of the popular topics for infographics in the 1940s In 1952, data visualization specialist Mary Eleanor Spear (1897–1986) further expanded upon the bar chart with the range bar, which later became the box and whisker plot in 1970, created by John Tukey. Refer to Figure 1-24. Figure 1-24. Pictorial example of box and whisker plot charts of 1952–1970 By 1972 and 1973, infographics on gold-anodized aluminum plaques became an important part of…
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1901 AD–2000 AD – What Are Infographics?-1
In 1900, charts and graphics continued to be popular and published. Refer to Figure 1-17. Figure 1-17. Pictorial timeline of 1901–2000 AD Notable users include W. E. B. Du Bois where he and his team created 60 data visualization charts about the lives of Black Americans. Refer to Figure 1-18. Figure 1-18. Pictorial examples of three of Du Bois’s data visualization charts While the first organizational chart was developed in 1854, it was not called this until 1914. However, it was not until the 1920s that they began to be used more frequently, along with the flow process chart in 1921. Though they are not as appealing with only rudimentary…
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1801 AD–1900 AD – What Are Infographics?
Playfair also began creating the circle pie chart to show the part/whole relationship in 1801, but this particular chart did not become popular until Florence Nightingale (1820–1910), the founder of modern nursing, began using it more frequently in 1857 in the form of a polar area diagram, or similar to a radial histogram. Nightingale’s “Rose diagram” was used to explain patient mortality in the military field hospital she managed during a specific year. A copy of that chart was sent to Queen Victoria the following year. Refer to Figure 1-11 and Figure 1-12. Figure 1-11. Pictorial timeline of 1801–1900 AD Figure 1-12. Pictorial sketch of Playfair with his pie chart…
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1601 AD–1800 AD – What Are Infographics?
During the 1600s–1800s, various artists continued to refine and define different ways to use the traditional map to display data on earth. Refer to Figure 1-6. Figure 1-6. Pictorial timeline of 1601–1800 AD Yet in the AD 1600s, the ideas of what an infographic was to appear like and what it was to represent began to change, and there were other topics on people’s minds besides earthly maps. Refer to Figure 1-7. Figure 1-7. Recreation maps from the early 1600s and late 1700s For example, in 1626, Christoph Scheiner (1573 or 1575–1650), who was a priest, physicist, and astronomer, created an infographic that involved the rotation of the sun and…
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Ancient History–Pre-1600 AD – What Are Infographics?
One of the earliest forms of drawings that you are probably aware of is the cave paintings of Lascaux near Montignac, France. Some anthropologists believe them to be around 17,000 years old (15,000 BC). While this is considered an example of Paleolithic art, some anthropologists and art historians wonder, “Could this be a representation of a past hunting expedition or some type of mystical ritual?” For today’s modern viewers, we cannot be sure as there is no text or familiar icons that come with the drawing, so we are left unsure as to the artists’ true intentions. At the very least, it does give us a clue as to what…
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A Short History About Infographics – What Are Infographics?
Before you begin deciding what kind of infographic to create, whether that be as a preliminary sketch or when you start working in Illustrator, it is important to have a firm idea about what exactly is an infographic. You may already know that an infographic needs to somehow convey information graphically. But how can that be done? Before you can understand that, we need to look at how long infographics and logos have been around. You might be surprised, they have quite a long history over thousands of years and basically began as soon as humans started to combine pictures and a form of writing together to create instructions for…
