Infographics: Information, Tutorials, and Workshops
Infographics are a type of data visualization. They are usually a mixture of text and images, but they are graphic heavy, often only visualize a small amount of data, and have specific goals. Those goals are normally to inform or persuade through storytelling. They are often shared on websites and social media for marketing purposes, but they are becoming more popular in a variety of situations to convey your data and message to your audience in a more unique and appealing way.
Table of Contents
Getting started
- Please visit our list of online and desktop applications that can be used to create infographics
Learning resources
Online courses
- Introduction to Infographics, an online, self-paced course administered through Quercus
- Data Visualization - An Introduction: Theory and Critique, an online, self-paced course administered through Quercus
Workshops
Introduction to Infographics: Health Critique Example
https://play.library.utoronto.ca/embed/944b9a6dbee66a58ad688ab75a16c103
Introduction to Infographics: Social Science Critique Example
https://play.library.utoronto.ca/embed/77ac1a241218bc45a11815f493d84249
Tutorials & Other Guides
Additional Resources to Learn More
Designing your Infographic
- University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Infographic Planning Worksheet
- Some Useful Infographic Design Articles
Map & Data Library Data Visualization Resources
- Data Visualization Guide
- Design Principles section (with data viz tips)
- Specialty Visualization Areas section (with map making tips)
- Research about visual variables and visual perception section of the data viz design workflow page
- Data Viz Guide’s Books, Blogs & More page
- Piktochart Tutorial
- Online Data Visualization Courses:
The Power of Storytelling with Visuals
- Specific resources supporting the ideas mentioned on why visualization and storytelling are so powerful:
- Implications of dual coding for information design by Sheila Pointis
- The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward Tufte [PRINT BOOK]
- Useful Fictions: Evolution, Anxiety, and the Origins of Literature by Michael Austin [PRINT BOOK]
- Data Visualization: Storytelling [LinkedIn Learning Course] (Toronto Public Library, or some other public libraries, account required for access)
Examples, Layout, Fonts, and Colours
- Infographic examples [PRINT BOOKS]:
- Layout:
- Fonts:
- How to Choose Fonts (with sample font pairings)
- Modular Scale (for selecting font sizes)
- Colour palettes:
Psychology and Accessibility
- Colour Psychology:
- Handbook of color psychology [ONLINE BOOK]
- Colour hunting: How colour influences what we buy, make and feel [PRINT BOOK]
- Accessibility
Infographic Creation Tools
- Desktop Tools
- Online Tools