Additional Resources to Learn More

• Designing your Infographic
• Map & Data Library Data Visualization Resources
• The Power of Storytelling with Visuals
• Examples, Layout, Fonts, and Colours
• Psychology and Accessibility
• Infographic Creation Tools
• Icons and Images

Designing your Infographic

• University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Infographic Planning Worksheet
• Some Useful Infographic Design Articles
  • The Ultimate Infographic Design Guide: 13 Tricks for Better Designs (Venngage)
  • How to Make an Infographic in Under 1 Hour by Midori Nediger (Venngage)
  • How Designers Do It: 15 Easy Steps to Design an Infographic from Scratch (Canva)
  • Visual Abstracts

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:
  • Theory & Critique
  • Practice with Tableau

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]:
  • Infographic Designers’ Sketchbooks
  • Infographics: Designing and Visualizing Data
  • Infographics: The Power of Visual Storytelling
• Layout:
  • Piktochart Layout Cheat Sheet
• Fonts:
  • How to Choose Fonts (with sample font pairings)
  • Modular Scale (for selecting font sizes)
• Colour palettes:
  • Adobe Color CC
  • Color Brewer
  • COLOURlovers
  • Coolors

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
  • Coblis: Color Blindness Simulator
  • Inclusive Design: How to Make Your Visuals Accessible to All

Infographic Creation Tools

• Desktop Tools
  • Adobe Illustrator
  • Microsoft PowerPoint
• Online Tools
  • Piktochart
  • Canva
  • Venngage
  • Visme
  • Easelly
  • Infogram
  • Adobe Creative Cloud Express

Icons and Images

• Articles:
  • How to Use Creative Commons to Find Free Images
• Websites:
  • Flaticon
  • Flickr
  • Morguefile
  • The Noun Project
  • Pexels
  • Pixabay
  • Undrew
  • Unsplash
  • Wikimedia Commons

Technique: Data Visualization | Tools: Piktochart