From the course: Learning Infographic Design
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Improving a failing infographic
From the course: Learning Infographic Design
Improving a failing infographic
- To better exemplify the need to pare down text when designing an infographic, check out this infographic designed for print. Now I put the word infographic in air quotes here because I would not consider this to truly be a graphic representation of information. I have to read every bit of copy to find relevant takeaways. I can't simply look at the visuals and come to at least a few similar conclusions. Instead, I am met with walls of texts that I must take the time to read justifying value in the content. Part of the issue with this design is simply the fact that there's far more information packed into the design than what should exist on 8 1/2 by 11 page. In fact, here's the same design paired down to just the most important information. Now that's starting to look a lot more like an infographic to me. A typical issue with infographics is the overuse of quantagrams. When you use multiple iconic pictograms to…
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