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Visual Design Tips for Infographics

The document provides tips for building an infographic, including starting with striking facts and stories, choosing images that represent the argument, using an appropriate visual metaphor, identifying core actors and goals, highlighting protagonists and antagonists, focusing on the key tension and interactions, balancing showing and telling, and explaining something striking that is the core of the argument. It also lists the key parts of a movie poster as tone, core images of actors and goals and interactions, tension, vectors, and an appropriate tagline.

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Visual Design Tips for Infographics

The document provides tips for building an infographic, including starting with striking facts and stories, choosing images that represent the argument, using an appropriate visual metaphor, identifying core actors and goals, highlighting protagonists and antagonists, focusing on the key tension and interactions, balancing showing and telling, and explaining something striking that is the core of the argument. It also lists the key parts of a movie poster as tone, core images of actors and goals and interactions, tension, vectors, and an appropriate tagline.

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Visual Design: Day 2


Dr. Will Kurlinkus

How to Build an Info-Graphic


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Start with striking facts, stats, and small stories.

What key images represent your argument?

Choose an appropriate visual metaphor.

Who are your core actors and goals?

Protagonists and antagonists?

What is the key tension?

What are the key interactions?

Balance showing and telling.

Focus on explaining something striking and newthe core pop of your


argument.

How to Build an Info-Graphic


n

Start with striking facts, stats, and small stories.

What key images represent your argument?

Choose an appropriate visual metaphor.

Who are your core actors and goals?

Protagonists and antagonists?

What is the key tension?

What are the key interactions?

Balance showing and telling.

Focus on explaining something striking and newthe core pop of your


argument.

Key Parts of a Movie Poster


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Tone

Core images: Actors, goals, and interactions

Tension

Vectors

Appropriate Tagline

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