CATC Specialisation Assessment I

DGDSP12 Specialisation Veronica Machon - 00067669T 20th October, 2015

What to specialise in ...

INFOGRAPHICS!!!

What is an infographic? An infographic is a visual representation of information and data on a specific topic.

Rather than reading paragraphs of information and looking a whole bunch of numbers, an infographic will visually make clear and informative points.

What is an Infographic? - https://www.customermagnetism.com/infographics/what-is-an-infographic/

Infographic samples There are thousands of infographics available, shared in social media, covering any topic you can think of ... from corporate market research to “How well do you know your poop?�

Enterprise Analytics for Human Resources, Oracle - http://www.slideshare.net/ArnaudCHABIELSKI/oracleenterprise-analyticsinfographic-51139452 How well do you know your poop? Healthworks - http://piktochart.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/poop-infographic.png

... and some more infographics Most popular infographics on Visual.ly: What are the odds? 1,842,818 views Should I text him? 1,539,406 views

Analyzing the Top 30 Infographics on Visually, published May 2012 - http://blog.visual.ly/top-30-viral-infographics/

... and a few more.

Generally formatted in “blocks�, time line or a flow chart style. A successful infgraphic needs to be visually appealing, and to use just a few colours - unless your infographic is about colours.

The Power of Visual Content - http://www.visualistan.com/2014/09/the-power-of-visual-content-infographic.html How Steve Jobs Started - http://www.visualistan.com/2014/09/how-steve-jobs-started-infographic.html Are you Happy? - http://www.typcut.com/headup/are-you-happy

Infographic Designers Kelly Quigley, Media Manager - Copypress http://www.copypress.com/ and https://www.behance.net/kellyqdesign

Infographic Designers Curtis Newbold aka - The Visual Communication Guy. These are “Edugraphics�. http://thevisualcommunicationguy.com/

Infographic Designers

Rayz Ong, Graphic Designer - Lemongraphic http://www.lemongraphic.sg/ or https://www.behance.net/rayzong

Infographic Readers

The infographic audience can be anyone online!

As they cover any topic imaginable, infographics can be share socially via Tumblr, bloggs, Facebook, Pinterest and Twitter, and for business purposes can be viewed on slideshare, LinkedIn, bloggs or on company websites.

Why Infographics?

I may have viewed a few of them online without knowing that they were called anything, but I first became aware of the term “infographic” in my role with Oracle.

During my career I’ve held a few positions doing data and reporting analysis, where I’ve created detailed and comprehensive graphs and reports. To combine this experience and my love of graphic design seems like a great fit!

Whilst studying my Diploma, I thoroughly enjoyed creating the infographic during the Design Industry subject, where we created a brochure for ADMA outline a graphic designers career path.

Combining these skills, is already helping me in my career as I’m currently heading a project at work to change our current reporting to improve the post field event reports in an inforgraphic format and thinking of using either Venngage or Piktochart.

Want to find out more?

Click the icons to view more infographics or see below for the links: https://www.behance.net/search?sort=appr eciations&time=week&search=infographic http://www.canva.com http://www.easel.ly/ http://visualoop.com/ http://visual.ly http://www.dailyinfographic.com/ https://blog.kissmetrics.com/infographics/ http://iheartinfographics.tumblr.com/ http://www.visualistan.com/ http://www.coolinfographics.com/ http://venngage.com http://piktochart.com