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GIS: Explore a Map

  This tutorial will teach you how to open a web map. You then will learn how to navigate the map and work in the software using tools. This tutorial will allow you to explore volcanoes and the risk of lava flow on the island of Hawaii. Click here for a free trial of ArcGIS […]

 

Sport Statistics: 2015 NFL Preview

Sports statistics allow visual journalists the opportunity to analyze data, identify trends and learn how a player contributes to a team’s success. In this doubletruck previewing the 2015 NFL season, the data is presented in bar, doughnut and fever charts. The data demonstrates NFL’s transition to a pass first league. From a glance, the reader can quickly identify […]

 

Lynda: Data Visualization

Data visualization allows you to make complex numbers and abstract data tangible, visible and relatable with simple illustrations. In this series of Lynda.com tutorials, Bill Shander will show you how to understand data, craft a story the data tells, and determine the best visual model and details to use for that story. This tutorial will also discuss […]

 

How to Install and Use Brushes in Adobe Illustrator

Brushes can be an additional tool that can help you create complex designs more efficiently. Designers can create their own brushes or can quickly download stock brushes from websites. When downloading a free texture, it is important to look at the terms and conditions of use. This tutorial will break down how to install brushes […]

 

Create Realistic Vector Images

This tutorial will teach you how to create a complex vector image. A step by step guide will help you study a lot of high-level illustration techniques such as the Gradient Mesh, Dynamic Blend, Dynamic Art Brushes, Blend Art Brushes and more. While creating complex illustrations may seem difficult at first, breaking the work into […]

 

Gradient Mesh: Realistic Curtain

This tutorial teaches you how to illustrate a realistic curtain using the gradient mesh tool. This tutorial is perfect for a designer who want to explore how the gradient mesh works. Working with this feature allows the designer to divide almost any shape into a mesh. Each intersection of horizontal and vertical lines can be colored […]

 

How Farm Machinery Works

Today, farming infuses intuition with the use of modern machinery. In a  Greenfield Daily Reporter news package, Beneath The Beast,  a static diagram that makes sense of a modern planter. At first glance, a planter is a maze of steel, plastic, alloy and aluminum lined with various hoses, tubes and wires. While certainly intimidating from its exterior, the […]

 

Business Journal: Leaving the Suburbs

Large, suburban office parks are moving to downtown Minneapolis. As more and more employers head downtown, it becomes imperative that suburbs add amenities to prevent their current tenants from making the move. The Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal packaged the story with a map that shows the reader the previous and future sites of the 16 […]

 

Streamline water motion graphic

In 2014, Streamline Water –a bottleless water cooler supplier –  wanted a tool to help begin conversations with potential clients. The goal was to educate and inform people about their products before their sales team attempted to sell. They also had a specific metric for success: they wanted to increase contacts with decision-makers by 25 […]

 

Planet Earth control deck

This motion graphic by Eleanor Lutz, creator of the Tabletop Whale blog, was designed to show what Earth’s control panel might look like if it was a spaceship piloted by humans. Each panel includes an animated gifs based on scientifically accurate data. Lutz is a designer in Seattle with a Bachelor’s in molecular biology from […]