Design Guide: Infographics

Welcome

Well-designed visuals can make your data more engaging. This webpage is full of tips and resources to help you make infographics that will wow your audience and impress your professors.

Planning Worksheet

Great design follows from good process. This worksheet will take you through important steps in planning your infographic.

Tutorials

This video summarizes the basics of data visualization, including how to make sense of your data, what are the best types of charts/images to use with your data, and what kind of story do you want to tell with your information.

This Lynda tutorial outlines how to make an infographic using Adobe Illustrator. An explanation of Illustrator’s tools and basic design principles are covered.

Narratives aren’t just for books – your infographic should tell a story too! This video goes over various strategies on how to analyze your data to find meaningful relationships.

While Adobe Illustrator is a great tool, this video introduces other programs that can be used for infographic design, as well as discussing design elements such as color and scale in more depth.

Get Inspired

with examples of great infographics

Excellent visuals

• Daily Infographic
• Information is Beautiful
• Infographic Designers' Sketchbooks

Excellent data

• Flowing Data
• The 'Little of Visualization Design'

Tools

PowerPoint

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Piktochart

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Illustrator

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Design Assets

Images

Find images, maps, and icons to include in your infographic

• The Noun Project
• Vector Maps
• Librestock

More info on citing and reusing media ethically

Layout/Color Schemes

Tools to help you choose a color scheme and visual layout

• Adobe Color Wheel
• Design for Information

Fonts

Customize your infographic with creative, eye-catching fonts

• Google Fonts
• Dafont
• The League of Movable Type

Need Help?

Ask at the front desk of the UL or make a design consultation.

For Instructors

License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.