Ten tips to become an infographics artist


	Ten tips to become an infographics artist

Djiezes

5-3-2008 9:29 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/6131aa90-98e7-466e-bc93-266d4d75cd3e/6806A584-BA7B-4798-894B-C0BCCB9CC4FA/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://infographicsnews.blogspot.com/2008/04/ten-advices-to-become-infographics.html" href="http://infographicsnews.blogspot.com/2008/04/ten-advices-to-become-infographics.html" style="font-size: 11px;">infographicsnews.blogspot.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://infographicsnews.blogspot.com/2008/04/ten-advices-to-become-infographics.html"><H3 class="post-title entry-title">
<A href="http://infographicsnews.blogspot.com/2008/04/ten-advices-to-become-infographics.html">Ten tips to become an infographics artist</A>
</H3></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://infographicsnews.blogspot.com/2008/04/ten-advices-to-become-infographics.html">1. INFORMATION</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://infographicsnews.blogspot.com/2008/04/ten-advices-to-become-infographics.html">Design in this discipline is a tool, not a goal.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://infographicsnews.blogspot.com/2008/04/ten-advices-to-become-infographics.html">2. ORGANIZING INFORMATION</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://infographicsnews.blogspot.com/2008/04/ten-advices-to-become-infographics.html">3. COLOR</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://infographicsnews.blogspot.com/2008/04/ten-advices-to-become-infographics.html">Clear tones for the less important, dark for those elements on which we want to focus teh attention.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://infographicsnews.blogspot.com/2008/04/ten-advices-to-become-infographics.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/infographicsnews.blogspot.com/img/72E69534-7F74-4983-BE54-5DA70DBC59E3" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://infographicsnews.blogspot.com/2008/04/ten-advices-to-become-infographics.html">4. CLEAN AND CLEAR</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://infographicsnews.blogspot.com/2008/04/ten-advices-to-become-infographics.html">5. SHOW DON’T TELL</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://infographicsnews.blogspot.com/2008/04/ten-advices-to-become-infographics.html">6. COMPARE AND MEASURE</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://infographicsnews.blogspot.com/2008/04/ten-advices-to-become-infographics.html">Comparations, measurementa and actual scales make information easy to understand in many cases. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://infographicsnews.blogspot.com/2008/04/ten-advices-to-become-infographics.html">7. DON'T BREAK SCALES</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://infographicsnews.blogspot.com/2008/04/ten-advices-to-become-infographics.html">If we have to do it, include a locator of the actual scale.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://infographicsnews.blogspot.com/2008/04/ten-advices-to-become-infographics.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/infographicsnews.blogspot.com/img/3D27C17F-99FB-4426-A106-3E4D07CF01C4" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://infographicsnews.blogspot.com/2008/04/ten-advices-to-become-infographics.html">8. DOCUMENTATION</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://infographicsnews.blogspot.com/2008/04/ten-advices-to-become-infographics.html">9. WRITERS ARE ALLIES</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://infographicsnews.blogspot.com/2008/04/ten-advices-to-become-infographics.html">10. KEEP LEARNING</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/6806A584-BA7B-4798-894B-C0BCCB9CC4FA/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>