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1. Introduction: Hey there, my name's Nick Jenkins and I'm a graphic designer from Bristol in England today, we're gonna be looking at how to create a fun and engaging infographic during the course. The tutorial. We were looking out to collect and prioritize information. In order to turn it into a structured and digestible piece of design. You will learn how to create charts in Illustrator finds, an image in clip out in photo shop and then critic ridin in design in order to create a perfectly aligned on well balanced infographic. We would also look at the importance of wire framing on gathering inspiration to get off to a good start. Along the way will be learning about some of the guiding principles of design. This includes balance, typography, hierarchy, scale and contrast, all of which is vital to any successful piece of design. I would also be showing you some tips and tricks along the way, while supply and logic and reason I don't with creativity to produce a successful infographic. This course is aimed at beginners. You maybe feel a bit daunted to create an infographic, or maybe just someone wants to up their infographic game. Feel class project. You can take a sporting icon, do some research into their statistics and records, and then we're gonna create fun and engaging Infographic celebrating their achievement. Remember to upload your progress as you go along, particularly from the grid tow wire frame to design phase. There's always good to be here to reflect back on what you've done as a way of learning for the future. Either way, remember, guys, stop. Sounds scary.
2. Get Inspired!: Okay, So the first step to any project really, in my opinion, is to get inspired. We've got here is a Pinterest board I've made full of different sporting infographics. It's great to look through and just see how other people have made charts, how they've used color, what sort of funds? People using, how they've laid imagery. And you just start getting those creative juices flowing. So first thing for you guys to do is you do something similar like this. Make your own printers Pinterest board or get yourselves on Google drug alert of imaged into a folder on get inspired. I put the link to this one in the project Notes on Do upload any inspiration you find to your own project.
3. Clip Out Your Hero With the Pen Tool: The first thing we're gonna want to do is find yourselves a picture of your sporting hero. No going with LeBron James because it's pretty awesome. Andi, I know that there's plenty of stats about him online. You could go with anyone you want. Just take a look on flicker on Google images. Save it your folder Structural war to your desktop on Get Opening Photoshopped. So first things first. Let's duplicate this background layer you do by hitting command and J or right click on duplicate layer. I'll come with us and press OK, so we need to clip out. I'll figure from that background to do this, we're gonna use the pen tool. The mental can be found in the toolbar here or by pressing P. If you don't know how to use the pen tal, don't worry too much. I'm going to give you a quick introduction now, but I will link to a more in depth to toil in the project. Notes. Simpson is room in down here. Penta works by adding anchor points along your shape war figure, and it creates a path between these points. The's anchor points can then be edited like so If I hold down Olt click and drag creates a curved line between the points. If I release that, I can then added just one point by holding down. Oh, playing with that note, I can add points along the path by clicking. If I hold down command, it will select that point like I move it. If I don't hold down adult, it will come up with the remove anchor point tool on. I can click that to remove it. That is the basic use of the pen tal. Obviously, when you get all the way around to come around the other end, you come back down here and you just connect the end and you've got one solid long path. So I'm going to draw around my finger now. Okay. So as you can see, I gone around the entire figure on I've just renamed my layer. Just one I'm working on. The next step need to do is make the selection off this path so that we can then create a layer mask to make a selection. You can either right click and go to make selection, which will come up with this. Just keep this. It nor impress. Okay? Or a short cut used to go command on. Enter once you got your selection which is shown by these marching ants going around the figure he had down to add a layer mask. She just down here, click on it. And as you can see, it's removed. LeBron, in this case from the background on its added this'll a a mask here. So what you're looking at here is essentially a representation off a pastie white represents 100% capacity on black represents 0% pastie. I fast to grab a brush. Change it to what on? Just add in 50%. You can see it's kind of a little grace. Budge on that is representing were, in this case, 50% between black and white. So 50% capacity shows up here is gray. If you do again, comes up, there's another light, A great. So it's coming more and more towards white, the higher the capacity. So I'm just gonna get rid of that. And as you can see, we need to remove these middle bits. So if I just do that quickly and then click here Ah, click here. Yeah, Command. There time to hear human Can I mean quite lucid this I would take more time Normally, that might just think of this after I'm done. Okay. So in order to remove these sections which are already within our land, ask he to make the selection again. Command in. Enter on. You can't hit this because if you do what what happens? It just makes this additional vector mask is not we want to do se. We're gonna make sure that we got black set to our foreground on. We're going to hit shift on backspace, fill with black. This selection we've made. As you see, it's got rid of the detail there. It's gonna do the same thing here. Okay? Turning to the same again. Hit commanded, enter shift backspace to being it, Phil, make sure to set to foreground color here, okay? And then we have our cut out of our hero. The next steps. I'm gonna show you how to use a refine edge tool. Just a neatness up of it.
4. The Refine Edge Tool: next we're gonna do is with the lame I selected Hit Oh, Command And our this will bring up the refine edge tool. Now, yours may not look like this with the pink background yet, but we can set to that in a minute. So essentially, what this does is it allows us to tweak Andi. Refine has is by the name the edge of the people who just cut out. So as you can see, there's a little bit of white here still from the background. You see a bit of blacks around here, All these things were going to get rid off. So your view mode, there's a few different view modes here, but for what we're going to use, we're gonna goto, overlay, click that you're just probably set to 50% by default. It's knocking up to 100. So we get a really good contrast between, you know, skin, clothes and background. And then we're gonna change the color. I've set mine too pink. You could set us whatever you want, as long as it's, you know, with a contrast to the figure. So I'm not gonna go over what all these different things do But what I usually do to most thing is I get my edge and I shifted all the way back and doesn't like it's doing much yet . If we then feather by 1.5% as you can see, it's just got rid of these little edges. So if I knock that back to North, see to come back, we're not up to 1.5 just moves all in a bit on the feathering house to blur the edge. So it's not such a harsh contrast with whatever we're putting the figure on to next on just one small detail we're gonna work on even they probably won't notice that this size is just gonna bring out his hair a little bit. So obviously, people's hair is very rarely perfectly smooth line. Obviously, LeBron's is quite sure, But just with best practice, let's just have a go at this. So come over here. It's let you refine edge brush to make sure it's set to plus click close to the edge. Well, that does is it highlights sections against the background, and it cuts out essentially the white against this dark black here from the background. Just gonna do the same here. It's really, really great tool for using with very complicated hair. There we go. Just touch that a bit more. We're going a bit too much. They're less negative. I just want to get back in and a little bit there. He doesn't really need to be done, but you can just see it is a bit more of a natural edge on. We'll just go, Teoh. Okay. And now we've got clipped out. Figure we're safe this out. I will move on to the next stage, creating some charts.
5. What Do Charts Do?: before we create our charts. I just wanted Teoh making quick P s A about what charts really are. Andi, what their purpose is so a child is just a visual representation of data, as I'm sure you will know. But what it allows people to do is see the relationships between that data almost instantaneously. So what we've got here is the same data I seen up here represented in three different ways . So what we have is these three numbers 5013 19,000 742 and 7000 which add up to make 31,755 represented in this case, the best choice for this data. Looking at these three is a pie chart. We're trying to show a breakdown off. This number on this gives us a more accurate for no more accurate. But mawr instantaneously recognizable visualisation off that data on the relationship between you got the circle as a whole and you got the segments within it. Now this'll stacked bar chart does the same thing, but I think because they're probably not was widely used, it's not that connection is didn't made and then a colon graph. You don't really get a sense of this is a whole. So it doesn't really work in the same way. So, yeah, My point is, is that certain types of data lend themselves to being shown in certain ways. Andi, we'll cover that in the next lesson.
6. Create Charts: So what about here is a set of data that I collected on LeBron James. I used the n b. A dot com site on the basketball reference dot com sites. Now you'll easily be able to find some data on whoever your chosen hero is. Sure, if you just give it a Google, take a look around and see what you can find nihilistic. Take me about half an hour to get this all together, so don't expect us to get it all done really quickly. Does take some time in a bit of analysis. So the way I went about it was I thought about the main thing that I wanted to show. And it's definitely this, which is the amount of points he scored from his career. So this is probably gonna be all main piece of information, and everything else is really related to that apart from these, but I feel like they're quite good to show anyway. So let's go ahead and create our first child. We're gonna do is just copy thes three bits of data I had back into Illustrator where I've created in a four document. But that doesn't really matter too much when I'm gonna go down to our high graft. Well, this is just this is just the chart. All rule. But if you hold down on it, you see, there's always different types of Charlie. Use this one. We're gonna go with the pie chart. I'm just going truell click and holding drugs. That then commanding V. I'm a copy in the data that we copied. Apply and they have it. We put a pie chart. Now, Something just to know is if you hit this button here, just transpose row and column, then hit Apply again. It will change that data into a bubble chart, which are great, but I think for this we're just going to stick with a pie chart. So let's transpose it back. Hit, fly. There we go. So I'm just gonna come out of that. If you do want to re edit your data, you can go to your properties panel or you can right click go to data here, and then it just come up again. Okay, so the next thing we'll do is I'm just gonna copy in the data, so I know what that is. When I come back to me illustrate to fall under to keep coming back into numbers. Just gonna pop this here, okay? And now I'm gonna do is I'm gonna give this its own art board. So if you hit shift and hope you come with your art for tool, she's just here. I'm just gonna drag this. Just keeps out there just to be neat and tidy. I'm gonna give each chart its own our board. So I'm just gonna draw another board here. I didn't have to do this. Can have more than one. Page is just my own sort of way of working. So let's go ahead and make the other charts back to our data on. Okay, So, looking at this, I think that career averages per game. I think this this will probably just be typographic. I don't really see the need to turn it into a chart on a career totals again. I think that's gonna be typographic highest points in a game. Let's make them toe was made into a column shop. So I'm just gonna highlight these cells here, come back over into illustrator and then go down to a chart tool. Let's go up to the column graph. She strolled in here. Same as before. Commands in VI Today we have our data. No, it's fine manned. I mean, do the same again. Just copy this in with reference. Very gay. And I'm still draw another board over here. Let's get the next one. These aren't gonna be charts. Let's make this into one. So this is an interesting one. So this is time based. This is 2003 to 2004 all the way up to 2018 to 2019. So I think the best way to show this is either a line graph or a bar chart. Let's go ahead and see what both of those look like. Copping on the data over again, drawing the charts. Command and V. Now we have a bar shop. Let's have a look into it. Looks like it's a line graph. Look, it tells more of a story when it's a column. There's a bar chart, so I'm just gonna high like that. Go down here again on Go back to Colin Shop really, really get the sense of the trends of the data. See, the where goes down and up and down and up again. I feel like this looks a little bit better, so I'm gonna go with that for now. Now, obviously, when we take these into in design, we will be starting them up. So don't worry about the fact they, you know, just a little bit dark and business. Like, in a minute, we will be changing that. So again, it's gonna copy this in, chop him in there to make this figure good. Okay, so the minute we're running about three charts. So I realized that we were Mr Some data forgot to copy in just down here, So I'm going. Teoh, copy this. Make another chart with it. So this is a case of a bit like this one. It doesn't show data as a whole against something, and it doesn't show anything. Time based. It's merely a representation of those numbers against each other. So we're a bit more flexible in how we can try and show those numbers. And I think I'm, like, just tried doing a bubble chart for this one. So again of copied them out of numbers. Compliment to here, straight down into a little child and very gay. So really shows once it wants to be labelled up. The LeBron got a lot of games that were 30 plus points, and suddenly they dropped down to those extra Tend to get 40 plus points in the game is a lot more difficult on, then 50 plus and that one time got 60 plus game. So again, I'm just gonna copy this over into illustrators were working from one place afterwards on. There we go. So that's all our charts created. There's only four. Obviously, if you had a more data heavy page, then you'd have a lot more charts. But for the sake of this lesson, we're just gonna stick to this when you do your project, feel free to make us many as you like. But remember not to over saturate the page with them because it will become too much for the readers taken
7. Create our Grid and Guides: Okay, So as you can see here have switched over to in design, and we're gonna start y framing. So to get back to our Pinterest board, one trend I can see in a lot of these is this sort really long horizontal vertical page. I think I'm gonna do something like that. I think it really it just gives you a bit of flexibility on bond. I just like the way it looks. I think it really helps. Just had a story and obviously helps having given you some more space, which is great. So let's go to here. So first I'm gonna do is I'm gonna name I file LeBron James info graphic over one. So when I said it, Teoh a four in with but push it out to for 20. So it's got a ratio of 1 to 2 to one. However you look at it now, I must set this to have 12 column grid agreed to super duper important because you can I line everything to it. The number 12 is particularly important because 12 is divisible by 234 on six. So it gives you a great flexibility in being able to split the page up into those numbers, he said. The column gets to four mil. You can experiment with the with you got it, but don't go any higher than sort five mil. Um, and I'm saying Apologies to 10. That's why do you do for something like this on a four width Andi, give it three mil bleed just in case. Every did want to get it printed. Andi, That's it. For now, let's create. So as you can see, we've now got a page with our grid set up. You can hit W to turn off the grid on also gets rid of your art Bored around here. Let's go ahead on and just drop in some inspiration here. So it's a different job. Ah, inspiration. A few bits in here. I like this guy. I like this one, Andi, about this one. Just because it's quite simple. Let's drop easily them. So this is what I'll often do with any work. I do, really, If its initial stages, I'll just drop in some of the piece of work I find inspiring. I just sort of reference it. I really like the way that this guy's in front of this chart. I could see myself doing that now, Um, but before we do anything with this, we're gonna look at the amount of data we have on. Then we're gonna create very basic modular system to go along with grid on. This is gonna help us organize the information, create hierarchy so that when we come to design it, we've got plan in place. Okay, I'm just gonna go ahead and make some guides for this. So we headed to edit. So why not add it? Go to lay out, go to create guides, and we're gonna do the same for what we had across, but we're going to go down. So let's have 12 Rose with a four mil gutter. Same gutter that we've got here. Okay, so what? We've essentially made it a series of cells, As you can see for zoom in up here. Assuming this is one cell, this is another one. Just hear this helps a spit of the page so that when we come to wire frame, we can assign some space for our charts.
8. Wireframe Your Design: Okay, So what we're gonna do now is why frame out our design? First step to doing this is to draw in boxes into these cells. This is just so that I can see easier. How much space to assign something. So I'm just gonna go ahead and do that really quickly now, So hit em when you'll keep out. Now open the rectangle tomb, so just stop drawing in into these spaces. Gray boxes on Besnik. Copy these over now. The reason why I'm doing this is as I said, I find it easier to see this. Then try and navigate the Sion guides going across on the magenta guides going down. This is just a way of working that I find easier. What we're gonna do is go into our illustrator file. Now I'm gonna prioritize the information, and then we're gonna y frame up. Let me just go to my layers. I'm gonna lock this layer. Then I'm gonna make a new one and call this wire frame. She'd always work on layers and in design. I think some people forget to do it, but it really does make things easier. Okay, so let's go. Even now, So I know right now that this is the most important piece of information because that previously everything else here is kind of a breakdown off this toe. All these things are contributing factors to how many points he scored. So I know this is the most important piece of information. They're looking at how these guys have done it. I think I'm gonna sign about quarter of the page just of that chart. It's less draw this box in here, which would be about 12 B three boxes down. I don't think that's big enough. Let's call it four boxes. That's 1/3 of the page now, so it's even more priority on. I'm just gonna turn this up to 100 and then I'm gonna turn the transparency down to Let's make it 30. Maybe a little bit less. Let's make it 10. So now we can see where everything's going. Okay, so that's going to the next piece of information. Actually, first off, one them to label these, so I don't forget what I've space. I've given to what seems to copy this back in on. We could make it figure. Gosh, I hate that front. That's just make it work sends. So we know that the points right down is gonna be up here. So next piece of information, I think this is gonna be possibly the second most important thing. So what I'm gonna do here is just copy this first and then I'm gonna sign this. Hear owt. Click and drag down. Hold shift. Keep in line. Andi, I'm gonna give this. I'm gonna give this whole with two cells down in size. So this copy, I like your text. And she's the eyedropper tool set text above to copy that style. It's not what Points breakdown. Total points by season. Let's move over to highest points in the game. Copy this head back to here. I don't think this is is vital a some of these. So I think I'm gonna give this same depth, but half the page. You know, Jonah, books. Copy this in on their We've got this one on the final chart. 30 plus point games. I quite like it is a piece of information. It really celebrates his skills and achievement. Um, you know, forged 36 30 plus point games. It is incredible. So I think I'm gonna give this similar hierarchy to total points were a season. But I'm going to switch things up. I'm just gonna make this vertical try and get a bit more of an interesting layout. Obviously, everything will change. I can guarantee it never stayed exactly how y friend it. But this is just giving us an idea of space on what we can achieve within what we've got here. Seriously, copy this over German textbooks, okay? And and same again for this. Okay, so you start to see some semblance of hierarchy here. So now we've got all four charts in, but that's not all of our information. So I head back to numbers. Andi, I'm gonna look at what we've got here. Say we're missing 12 34 bits of information. So I think that all of these gonna be typographic. We may even introducing pictograms later on, which is just all icons to illustrate things. So N b A M v p. Copy this. I think this is a small bit of information. So I'm going to give this this much space. If that Get this over, show you. Why in a sec. So let's give this this much n b a n v p and then the same for this, which is what the other spaces for. So it's coffee. Just a word on time. If you wanna just use a keyboard shortcut rather time to go to here. Hit shift command on used the comma or the backspin de full stop key. No do up and down your tax size. Okay, And then we've got career totals. I think this was sitting here so assignment this much space career totals It's here on and finally, career averages per game. Do you use this way, cookie That up triplet in And there we have it. That is a super basic wire frame emphasizing a hierarchical structure. This is our main piece of information, and as you can see, a sign less space of things. I don't think it was important to telling. The story we're gonna do next is get our charts in and start doing the fund, which is designing. But the first we're gonna do is we're gonna style up our charts in Illustrator
9. Design – Chart Colours and Initial Layout: So what I like to do with slept in colors is one technique on the perps to this tutorial where we're just trying to show a basic way Creating infographic and thinking about information and design in a simple way is to highlight, or I drop colors from an image. So if I take the yellow so maybe this dark a bit of his jersey quite like that. Andi, If I go to the swatches panel, first off, I'm gonna do this. Just got a selectable and used to get all these to Luke on. Then drag this down to make a new swatch, and then I'm gonna do the same with this burgundy color. Quite like the lighter shade. Maybe someone somewhere around there. I think my work quite well, let's do the same drug that down. They're gonna pull its gray from his, uh, whatever that is. It's and kind of sweat bound, maybe. Or okay, they're gonna set three colors. I think restricted color palettes. A good helps focus the attention. If you have too many colors going on, it will be confusing and people won't really know where to look. OK, let's look at our charts. I don't really like pie charts often looking like this. So I turned into a donut shop. When you do, this is I like the child. Come over to our shaped tool here, get your lips too. On. I'm missing a draw circle holding shift in adult and draw out. And that will draw with the and the point of the circle being in the center. Now, this obviously live on color. So to switch between your foreground and background hit the X button. So I'm gonna just take out the fill for the background. And I did that by hitting Ford Slash, and they're gonna fill it in white. And there we have a donut chart, so it's gonna be my tool. Diarrhea as well. There we go. So I'm also gonna remove the stroke from the outside. I don't really like that. Then that's look in a lot slicker. A lot neater on. I'm gonna change the color skin here as well. So hit a Now try to select individual segments. Change this toe the yellowy gold. I turned this to the Burgundy on. I'm gonna change this to this dark gray. Okay, so that is the gem Oh, styling I like I like clean like, simple. I don't want strokes on anything ongoing. Apply the same print schools to the rest of this design. So let's change these here again do alternating colors. So these be burgundy, so you can see where I'm going with this On the same for this. If a quick tip is if you pick a color that said we made this yellow on Understand? Turn off the stroke. Now if I I dropped this, then I hit you. Turn it into a fill for the rest of them so we can just click on them and filled of in do the same here. Hey, turn off the stroke. Selected with the eyedropper. Andi, fill in every other one. Now this is slightly different because we're trying to represent for different numbers. I know we were here, but I don't think I don't. I don't think it is necessary. And the reason for that is because this is showing, showing a different issue in the same value. So this is the amount of points. This is a trend of those points throughout the games. Where's this? Is showing an amount of points, but it's breaking it down into 30 plus 40 plus 50 plus. So I think we better for each of these to have their own color, which means that we need one extra color. So they use this yellow diss Big D this gray on and you tend this. Let's get back to our image cf attending here. We could probably use the brown of the ball. See how that works. You barely gonna see this number anyway, so I think it's not so important. The highlight these and turn off the stroke as well. Okay, so there we have the basic styling of our charts. Now, what is gonna happen when we go into in design? It's when the cop of the men were gonna get rid of Paul This stuff on, we're gonna re label everything in the We're also going to have a change of style. So we head back to an design document and look at our inspiration. I really like things like this where he's turned. It's a basic column graph or column chart and turned it into something a little bit more interesting. I'd like to do something like that, so I'm gonna get back Teoh illustrator. I'm going to copy in my chart here, which is highest points in a game. I knew this, Ivan. Tell you what I haven't done is I haven't created a new layer, so I'm gonna make a new life charts. And then with that layer selected, I'm gonna copy in my child. So let's pull this down on then. 30 plus point games will drop into their just here. What I think could be cool for this if we turn it on its side, put it on an angle, we'll change the spacing and everything in a minute. We're just gonna get everything in. Not worry too much. Gonna shift this out the way. Sure. One here. Total points by season. Let's put him in there. Very good. Okay, Andi, final on just the points breakdown. Just copy that. Put this in here. Okay? Now, the next thing I'm gonna do is shift this out the way I'm gonna get these in, Get the figures in for these. You don't have charts and style them up, Andi. Then we'll move on after that to look in more detail design. So let's get to our numbers document. Drop in points, rebounds, assists. It's just copy all this over just career totals. Oh, no, this is Korea. Averages between a copy. This end. Turn all of these to be three. You can choose whatever funds you like, but I just like the condensed Look, I think it really hurt. Was pop numbers out? Maybe law bigger. Let's go. Something like that. And shift this over there. I was gonna give. He's been space. Make this one to. One thing to know is if you do have, you know, a large bounding box within small text inside. And you just want to need enough your work station, old command and see, and it'll wrap the box to whatever is inside it. Okay, So career totals we've got here. 8607 8000. Engine 67 Drop in. Drug this out on? Just gonna make this take this small. Copy this over on a stick. This in the middle. Okey dokey. On final ones here N b a m v p. Copy this shop diesel in. So if you hit old command and I you see, we've all your spaces and you could just figure it out from there. so out spaces in the in the actual text boxes themselves. So MBA Champion is the same. So I'm just gonna drug this down. Hold Oh, copy to savor. Okay, so you might be thinking What's going on? Do not worry. This is just the initial stage. It's more of a detailed wire frame. We've got some very basic styling done. So if I got layers my turn off grid and I turn off the wife frame, you see, it actually worked in his life, copied in into the wrong layer. These things. So you probably sat there shouting at May a couple of them and get the white frame. You see a very basic structure for our design. Have one main main graphic up here. It might move. You can see the hierarchy here how this is taking more precedence. This will be a change of style of this quality way. This looking on because if CR steps down here now, this is all gonna change because we don't want I can tell you now that I'm thinking about it, we don't want just all the statistical typographic stuff down here. We're going to shift it around on d. C. How we get on when we move onto the next phase
10. Design – Layout Wireframe Tweaks: Okay, then. Welcome back. So just following on. From what I said, I'm going to make some changes to this wide frame. I think that we've got all our text heavy stuff down here, and I think it needs to meet to shift things up a bit. So one thing I haven't considered, we're gonna have to have his name on here, But these guys have. So I'm gonna move this shift in G this whole thing down. And she gave me this thing up to here. Part of the reason for doing this. I think it can look a bit basic. We just think Oh, almost important piece of information has toe see at the top. But it doesn't. It's not true. Hierarchy doesn't refer to top to bottom in terms of physical appearance it refers to in terms of scale. So let's keep this up here. Next thing you do is move the's on your movies. The top actually. So commanding G group all of those on. Then take everything else. Oops. Just copy it down. One row on move this the top. You start to look more interesting for turn off our wire frame. Just hungry for these actually turn off our wife frame on the grid? You can start to see you start to see it working.
11. Design – Hero Image and Chart Design: Okay, so welcome back. As you'll just notice, I made some further tweaks to the wire frame, just the positioning of things. I just felt that it was better surprise eyes or D Prioritize some information. For example, I moved the M. V P. Andre MBA champion starts up to here because I realized that we're gonna need to have his name on there somewhere. So that's also there now, I just shipped some of these bits around. So the first we're gonna do now is make a hero in the middle. Now, looking at these live the way they've got the figures stood in front of the char or in this case, they've multiplied text on top. So I do something probably amalgamation of both those things. So I'm gonna hit command in D on a place in our figure of LeBron here. Now, obviously is not going to legs, which is never, never great. Andi gonna make him a bit smarter. We're gonna do is I, um, cheating a bit because I've done this before. Obviously, Andi, I'm gonna place him inside our chart, but having breaking out the top of it. So essentially he'll be sat within this white circle. So I'm gonna go ahead on and un group our chart. Then owner hit command in X, and that cuts him. But now he's on the clipboard in a highlight. This circle olt command V and that is paste in place or paste into Sorry more that does it paste into whatever object I had highlighted previously, which in this case, was the White Circle. So now I need his top half to be poking out the top here. It's the wearing. And do that is hitting A to being at the direct selection tool was selected it command and see V again. Just click off and hit shift old command and V in this place is in frontal in the same place se dragged up. And as you can see, we've got him now exploding out of the donor, not five to move this top layer. You see, it's actually just sound top here. So now I'm gonna label up this donut chart in the middle. Cocky this that could be him down small. That's what size. So I'm gonna head back to illustrator a copy these over so three pointers. It's this first number hit t message here and feel goes, it's Zoom back in. You shouldn't copy this Over here. Copy. That said on is free ther's cookie. That there. So just to make things easier, I'm gonna copy that. Apply it to here. Well, that's not working. Oh, and I won't to re copy this one in. Very good. Sorry. Okay, there we have our labels, so I'm gonna make these a bit smaller. Save this one, then Linus, up with that shift this up. Nine. The tops of these together. She was nice and neat. Can you stick it out there? I'm just gonna get lost on the go down to the grids and guides, but what small gods on? OK, that's fine. Then on a draw a line out to here, I'm gonna do another line out to here on. I'm gonna stroke it with this gray. So there we have our label style. Just move over there, e do the same for the other two. I'm just gonna reflect this. Flip it horizontally. Same again here on this. Up with that edge. Copy this down. Deflected vertically on because this is quite a big number. Just gonna a to select the point here and just move this over. Okay, Today we've got our hero chart labeled up, and now I'm gonna steal this style. I'm gonna make a big number to get across the front. So again, coping in to here So they go on number, bring us down. Going to this layer That's my mistaking me lock fists was remember And then we have a big number in the middle. Now we just make it so that would bigger on decentralize it Go up here to you'll on paragraph on hits Century Aligned we can do is using old andare directional arrows You can play with the tracking, which is essentially which is what this is here and what is it spaces out the numbers evenly. It's different turning, turning his individual spaces between the letters. If I was to not the turning down to zero that's space relative to each other. This is the overall space. It's a bit of a weird trying explain, but you can experiment both him and see how you get on. So you set this optical because it equally spaces the letters apart. Um, so we could do something really bold. He hit down oak to drag out this books. You have a big number coming across oversee. I need to move this down. I think it's quite nicely on. Maybe let's make this the bigger wait to say be for Oh, I see. It's a bit smaller. Let's head to our line here. Change the alignment to the page. What was in the middle? Right, Bang in the middle. I'm gonna do the same. See chart so casually that Okay, Cool. So just thinking about this, what I'm gonna do is instead of well, I'm just gonna try this and see what he looks like with red type of the top may be the gray . I think it's a bit lost personally. Drive the brown. No way. So what we do is we try something hit Olt. Double click on this image on what I'm gonna do is in a try, and city looks like in black and white. So it's koto, uh, on down here, get a black and white, make a few tweaks because I feel it's quite dark and low contrast. So let's hit the contrast up, then hit the brightness up a swell to get more than popping image. Then we can also go to levels. No, this down a bit more white in the brighter. But then blacks blacker on a hit save that would place to file in our document. Then I'm just gonna tweak this a bit more. Bring these ends so that it's no overlapping onto the chart. As you can see now, they sat in the middle. Then I'm gonna head up to our transparency low tool up here. It turned the blend mode to multiply. Change this, Teoh Black grey, maybe the yellow. The problem is this Get lost a bit in the middle. So what I might do In that case, it's a little cheat. Would you like to do? Sometimes I'm gonna hit out, draw a circle, something like this. Then I'm gonna fill it in with white. Then I'm gonna come up to the radiant feather and turn it on to radio. So what we've got here is a fill of white coming out to nothing. And that's what the gradient represents, right? Teoh Blackwell, in this case, transparency. Then I'm gonna take this, put it behind number seven, make a bit bigger and lo the capacity of it. you can't really notice it, but I think it's made a difference to the ledge ability. Off. Get rid of it. Put it back on. Difference. Eligibility. Let me try this back in. Do what? Don't like so much of this colors when we turn this too yellow. Change this back down to that. I think that we're expected. I'm gonna go with that for now. I'm working back to it later. Okay, So the next thing gonna do is I'm gonna start introducing some dividers this page. I won't have done that. Go ahead and label up our charts.
12. Design – Typography and General Styling: Okay, so welcome back. As you'll just notice, I made some further tweaks to the wire frame, just the positioning of things. I just felt that it was better surprise eyes or D Prioritize some information. For example, I moved the M. V P. Andre MBA champion starts up to here because I realized that we're gonna need to have his name on there somewhere. So that's also there now, I just shipped some of these bits around. So the first we're gonna do now is make a hero in the middle. Now, looking at these live the way they've got the figures stood in front of the char or in this case, they've multiplied text on top. So I do something probably amalgamation of both those things. So I'm gonna hit command in D on a place in our figure of LeBron here. Now, obviously is not going to legs, which is never, never great. Andi gonna make him a bit smarter. We're gonna do is I, um, cheating a bit because I've done this before. Obviously, Andi, I'm gonna place him inside our chart, but having breaking out the top of it. So essentially he'll be sat within this white circle. So I'm gonna go ahead on and un group our chart. Then owner hit command in X, and that cuts him. But now he's on the clipboard in a highlight. This circle olt command V and that is paste in place or paste into Sorry more that does it paste into whatever object I had highlighted previously, which in this case, was the White Circle. So now I need his top half to be poking out the top here. It's the wearing. And do that is hitting A to being at the direct selection tool was selected it command and see V again. Just click off and hit shift old command and V in this place is in frontal in the same place se dragged up. And as you can see, we've got him now exploding out of the donor, not five to move this top layer. You see, it's actually just sound top here. So now I'm gonna label up this donut chart in the middle. Cocky this that could be him down small. That's what size. So I'm gonna head back to illustrator a copy these over so three pointers. It's this first number hit t message here and feel goes, it's Zoom back in. You shouldn't copy this Over here. Copy. That said on is free ther's cookie. That there. So just to make things easier, I'm gonna copy that. Apply it to here. Well, that's not working. Oh, and I won't to re copy this one in. Very good. Sorry. Okay, there we have our labels, so I'm gonna make these a bit smaller. Save this one, then Linus, up with that shift this up. Nine. The tops of these together. She was nice and neat. Can you stick it out there? I'm just gonna get lost on the go down to the grids and guides, but what small gods on? OK, that's fine. Then on a draw a line out to here, I'm gonna do another line out to here on. I'm gonna stroke it with this gray. So there we have our label style. Just move over there, e do the same for the other two. I'm just gonna reflect this. Flip it horizontally. Same again here on this. Up with that edge. Copy this down. Deflected vertically on because this is quite a big number. Just gonna a to select the point here and just move this over. Okay, Today we've got our hero chart labeled up, and now I'm gonna steal this style. I'm gonna make a big number to get across the front. So again, coping in to here So they go on number, bring us down. Going to this layer That's my mistaking me lock fists was remember And then we have a big number in the middle. Now we just make it so that would bigger on decentralize it Go up here to you'll on paragraph on hits Century Aligned we can do is using old andare directional arrows You can play with the tracking, which is essentially which is what this is here and what is it spaces out the numbers evenly. It's different turning, turning his individual spaces between the letters. If I was to not the turning down to zero that's space relative to each other. This is the overall space. It's a bit of a weird trying explain, but you can experiment both him and see how you get on. So you set this optical because it equally spaces the letters apart. Um, so we could do something really bold. He hit down oak to drag out this books. You have a big number coming across oversee. I need to move this down. I think it's quite nicely on. Maybe let's make this the bigger wait to say be for Oh, I see. It's a bit smaller. Let's head to our line here. Change the alignment to the page. What was in the middle? Right, Bang in the middle. I'm gonna do the same. See chart so casually that Okay, Cool. So just thinking about this, what I'm gonna do is instead of well, I'm just gonna try this and see what he looks like with red type of the top may be the gray . I think it's a bit lost personally. Drive the brown. No way. So what we do is we try something hit Olt. Double click on this image on what I'm gonna do is in a try, and city looks like in black and white. So it's koto, uh, on down here, get a black and white, make a few tweaks because I feel it's quite dark and low contrast. So let's hit the contrast up, then hit the brightness up a swell to get more than popping image. Then we can also go to levels. No, this down a bit more white in the brighter. But then blacks blacker on a hit save that would place to file in our document. Then I'm just gonna tweak this a bit more. Bring these ends so that it's no overlapping onto the chart. As you can see now, they sat in the middle. Then I'm gonna head up to our transparency low tool up here. It turned the blend mode to multiply. Change this, Teoh Black grey, maybe the yellow. The problem is this Get lost a bit in the middle. So what I might do In that case, it's a little cheat. Would you like to do? Sometimes I'm gonna hit out, draw a circle, something like this. Then I'm gonna fill it in with white. Then I'm gonna come up to the radiant feather and turn it on to radio. So what we've got here is a fill of white coming out to nothing. And that's what the gradient represents, right? Teoh Blackwell, in this case, transparency. Then I'm gonna take this, put it behind number seven, make a bit bigger and lo the capacity of it. you can't really notice it, but I think it's made a difference to the ledge ability. Off. Get rid of it. Put it back on difference. Eligibility. Let me try this back in. Do what? Don't like so much of this colors when we turn this too yellow. Change this back down to that. I think that we're expected. I'm gonna go with that for now. I'm working back to it later. Okay, So the next thing gonna do is I'm gonna start introducing some dividers this page. I won't have done that. Go ahead and label up our charts. So the dividers check out how these guys have done them. Okay, so it must be more the gridded style. I don't It to be This is quite this is gridded, but not in the way that I mean. So I'm literally gonna take the line tool if you hit. Ah, Ford slash. Sorry. Backslash moment. So in a drawer line for my segments, there's one good here on Makes these individually jeweler This across here on the same for this. You see what? I'm doing this in a second. It's gonna be forming the title for our charts. Put this down here. Copy another one Down to here? Sure. You see where I'm going with this on? Copy this across on the same here. Okay, So this is how I'm going to style the titles. I think Andi again have turned this before, so it's a sort style I've used previously. So we're gonna do is you draw a rectangle? No, What I'm gonna do, we're gonna do is so These are meant to be up here. It's my layers. Unlock this. What I'm gonna do now is a shift. Copy all these shifting back up. It's a Charles Andi. Then copy this up. Copying is get rid of them moving up to here. So open up our character panel. She's command and t changes to optical. You take this down, Teoh. No, I'm gonna bump it up and then I'm gonna make everything shift. Command K is a short cuts. Turn everything into capitals. Now, what I'm gonna do is going to take this, make it down to about 10 point. Let's make it 12 point. So his little technique, which I used to get things basically put type in the center of a box If you hit command and be when you got your text box covered, it will be a text frame options. And from there I'm gonna hit center. Then I'm gonna hit this little anchor in the middle. It's gonna lock the's insects spacing, so they will remain the same. I make this two mil. Okay, then we're gonna copy my text, essentially align it. Oh, command and see Teoh wrap that the text box around the type that we spoke about before. Now I own a go to stroke. Pumped up to one. Put it on the outside. There, we have a pizza taxed aligned inside a box. Okay, so we're gonna do is drop this. So essentially lines. This is where the grid comes in particularly. Well, align this to the inside. There. Copy this over there. I think it is too big. So you take the in self too. Bone mill made is 10. Oakland and see you got a smaller box. Same again. That's just lying. These are to the touching Angeles books. Okay, so I'm gonna go ahead and do this for all the others on. Then we'll move on to the next stage. Okay? As you can see, I've gone in on labelled up all my sections. Um, it's start to take shape in many ways. If I get rid of the grid in wire frame, you can see the basic shorter and style can see how to turn this back on. Do you see how it's similar to this Andi Simmons of this as well, Andi, I think what we gonna do now, having thought about it and just looking at it, I feel that there's no enough contrast of scale here. So I think this needs to be bigger. I think he needs to be bigger on the way to do this is instead of making everything else more, I'm gonna get rid of this. Stop. I was looking at it, and I just It doesn't do anything. I really think it's that important. Obviously, if you know what basketball is important. But I think in terms of telling the story of his points scored just what I'm trying to do here, I just don't think it's relevant. So we're gonna get rid of it. Turn back on my wife friend on the grid. Andi, I am going to just unlock them and I'm gonna turn this Put about two North, actually, and put it down here. So it's kind of like doing with Tetris. Really? Just making a bit of a jigsaw on getting everything to fit. How you think it's gonna work. So let's makes this it's more this just a break up. We've got everything in the sort of one column thing. Here's break this up. Make this a three. Oops. Sorry to hear this down on, then. Okay. Okay. So now we're looking more like it. Move this down to here. Using grid again. You can see it snaps toe the center of this, um, column gutter. So I know is right in the middle here. That's why I love working in design for things like this because can really line things up properly on once you've got everything styled up and what not will have just one part, this lessons to reflect on what we've done, reflect on the design and make any final changes. So Jean Mackin and make this a lot bigger. It's gonna copy this that this line get down. Guess down as well. This bigot I feel like will be at the end of messing with the wife rain. So maybe it's much bigger. Oh, yeah, that's much more like it. See, now that dominates the page, and that's what we want. We want something that's got scale, and we want to introduce a real sense of hierarchy to the peace. So let's go down to the high scoring games. This needs to be tweets, doesn't it? And much this over this so is lined up can see you are 12345678 So if I go for in its fall outside, I know that needs to line up to the center of it. She does. You got smart guides on the on. Move this over on. Move this over. So starting a child like this, I I don't think we need the axes. I think because there's only five columns, we can just place the value at the top. That's what I'm doing. Shift command and G ungh reaps it. Delete all of these. Why must you do again? Is locked my wife frame there capable this on every day will come. So I want something like this. I think this is pretty cool. So we're gonna do it. Is I can't move, gonna transform everything. And this is not to scale. So we're basically making everything wide over, not taller. That's fine, because we've got it all selected. As long as we moved them all exactly the same amount while selected, they'll stay within. The relationship between them will remain the same. So there's still the same size relative to each other as they were previously. Now, what I'm gonna do again is I'm just gonna move thes overs. They're starting toe, overlap each other. No, no. What I'm gonna do now is turned these into triangles. Best with do that is take corner here a and select one of these anchor points. Oh, shift until you see this line that is lining up with that center point. Okay. On the same here. There you go. Let me do the same for this one, and then we'll do the same for the rest. That moving in that meeting in and again This is okay to do you, Daisy okay to do because we're forming the same action on all of them. So the areas each of these triangles will be the same relative to each other's side as they were when they were rectangles. I could I came throwing a settle these to multiply. What I'm gonna do is gonna lay them over each other. Okay, so let's move this into here. Listen to here. Listen to here on this one to hear what we do is just hard them all. I'm gonna go to a line. She was accepted a line to selection distributing horizontal centers. So now I know that the space between is the same across the board and then on his A I'm just gonna pull it all out again. So now we've got It's nice looking chart. Okay? So you can see it start to come to life a bit, making changes to the charts. Andi, what I'm gonna do now, just bump it up a bit. I look at styling this box as well. I label everything at the end. I don't see the point doing it until you got all your charts sorted. Because what you'll find yourself doing is if you decide I want to change Machar, it means you've got a change. The label you might have changed the label sizes all over again. It's just a big fat. So it would do as much you can before we have to bring in the labels. So career game averages, I think let's make this a big number again. We're working with scale here, Aunt Hierarchy. So this is 27 point schooled per game. So that's made. It's nice and big. We're gonna do Oh, contine si And so using this box, my guide And then we've got grid underneath. I can then copy out these numbers I would like to do with individual numbers. By the way, is adizero before 07 It is not seven, I think just individual and miss by themselves Look a bit. Now we're gonna try and give this a bit of style, not just make it perfectly lined up in a box, But let's move this just a bit above and it's the same number. So just copy this down. Have this one below. I mean, he's touched smaller on again. Made this line these up as well. That's looking pretty good. So now we're gonna do is hit the backslash button. What we did before allows toe draw a line and I'm gonna draw a line between these against the edge. If you could stroke up here. Get onto type. Get adopted in, James. The weight. So you got fat one there or you've got a skinny one like this. Then we'll go the skinny one for now. And then I'm gonna draw another line from here. Actually, take the bottom of this in the top of that, so we can do is use our rulers Teoh Actors, guides here. Andi drool line up in the middle there you I and just highlight style of that line. They're using our colors. J J switches between the Phil, which would be the box of us. Flynn blue. See that turned off on anything, J It goes to the type. You can also manually do it here to then I swap that to the Burgundy. Yes. What? This Teoh gold in the yellow Dang. I swap that to the gray. I'm also gonna make our lines grave. Made the lines great for everything else. I was just gonna move this over as well. Okay, So just starting to take shape. As you've noticed before, I go to my layers and I turn this off. Yeah, it's a really stand to look, you start to get there. So I'm gonna go ahead now. Unjust, bringing my labels for everything on the label of thieves, and then we'll have a final review on discussed the final touches.
13. Design – Final Tweaks: I want to do now is just the final touches on D. I mean introduced some icons up here. The reason for doing that is because I feel like it illustrates this point a bit more as it is, just you don't really get the idea that it's an award. So what donors? I just taking a picture of the N V P Trophy off Google and off the Larry O'Brien N B A Champion trophy. Just drawn them using the pen tal. If you're not familiar with the pentacle, its exact it seems we photo shop, you just draw out your shape, Whatever on play with the anchors. Andi, if you put in here, you fill it as opposed to cutting things out with it. So that's that's what that is. We're going to get rid of these on, and I'm gonna drop in my trophies stuff here, so I'm gonna align these so it's perfectly aligned with this. Add in some more spaces. So 12341234 a couple 1212 So I know that's all perfectly lined. I line it up in the middle. Let's get to that. Do the same thing here. Now, this is where you get finicky with you create. Make sure you go in and make sure everything's perfect. You will notice the difference if everything's just out of a line on the end. So let's make that this profession as possible and then knock these down a little bit. Nothing down slightly. Then I'm gonna bring this to here, reduce the size produce even more on. I was gonna move these down again and it is a bit smaller. Lots of tinkering has to go on on and just really pull this out out of a few more spaces. 12121212 We do that, then it's a copy this over. Say, sometime. Andi gets a touch bigger. Okay, I think it was good. Copy this on copy, and it's lined up the middle of their on. You do exactly the same for this. According shift. Being this down on, move this over and move over there. And let's just change the color of these to this nice. True. If you color for that, then even though I know it's not cup trophy, right, these red just to get a bit of differentiation. Okay? And that is not quite. Actually. I think that this is getting a bit lost. The grown up here. Do you need to know who it is going like this? A bit bigger on and not just make this. This is actually just a box. See? See him back in on. I mean, do the same technique that we've done for the other centralized piece of type hit command and be to line the center just good. That's what we want. Incest it by one millimeter. Let's make it to actually two millimeters, Then I'm going to set a thicker stroke for that. Just two point. Yeah, I think that works.
14. Review our Design: okay, And that's it. We've made over Infographic. I'm just gonna spend two minutes now, just reflecting on some of the principles of design that we've got going on here. So 1st 1 is contrast. Obviously, we've got two contrasting colors. We've got the contrast. In a type, it is always important when you select fonts. Whatever you do, do not select to that look very similar on. Then use them. It's just if you're gonna get no contrast, get no definition you have to use to a different. So in particularly using this tall, condensed type for the numbers works really well on this. Using this, which is a clear sound serif for the smaller labels again works really well. There's consistency amongst the typography here. What the same size for all the labels here and up here on throughout. Down here. We've also got consistency in the line weights everything. There's a stroke in this document. It's set to north 0.5. As you can see here, I've also used the same color for all of the strokes, which is the gray which we selected Andi with the mark. With regards to color, you've got a restricted color palette, which helps bring consistency again to the whole thing on in terms of scale. As I've said numerous times, we've got one main graphic in the middle and everything else working off of it. This really helps turn this into a more interesting piece of design, because when everything is the same size, you just don't know where to start on. The final thing to know is the use of the grid on divorce. In general alignment, everything's lined up perfectly. All these air centralized, centralized, lined up. He's lined up right in the middle. These are lined up at the top on a lease in London perfectly and also centralized within that column. So it's important to make these little changes. If something's not quite lined up, get in there, zoom right in and check that it is. So it makes a world of difference. So thank you so much for bearing with me. Please do share your projects. Conway to you come up with different types of infographic, especially a process as well. If you have any questions and you start making wire frames are making your grid do let me know and I'll get back to you as soon as I can. So, yeah, have a good time making your infographics guys, please
Nick Jenkins, Motion Designer
