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Making Charts in Adobe Illustrator

This exercise will provide an introduction to making charts in Adobe Illustrator. Illustrator allows you to enter data into a spread sheet and quickly generate pie charts, fever charts, bar charts, scatter plots and more. Illustrator is a vector based program which allows you to draw vector items. In a general sense, the term vector refers […]

 

Lynda: JavaScript Essential Training

This tutorial will teach you the basics of the core JavaScript language and syntax, hot to write it, where to put it and what tools you can use. JavaScript is an object-oriented computer programming language commonly used to create interactive effects within web browsers. Click here to go to the tutorial.   

 

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 […]

Choropleth Maps

Use the data below from the Centers for Disease Control to create a choropleth map that shows skin cancer rates in the United States. Click here to download a U.S. map template. Click here to download additional state, region and world map templates. State/Rate AL/22.1 AK/13.7 AZ/14.5 AR/19.9 CA/21.1 CO/22.2 CT/19.6 DE/29.7 DC/7.1 FL/20.6 GA/26.3 HI/18.7 […]

 

Since this book first published in 2006, the field of information visualization has changed dramatically. First, information visualization has exploded online and on other digital platforms. Second, information graphics reporting has encompassed nearly every sector of communication and business. Visual reporting skills are not only relevant in traditional news environments, but many other professions as […]

 

  The Society for News Design will gather April 19-21 in Charlotte, North Carolina. This year’s theme, “Unite + Rebel” aims to deliberately break from traditional conference programming to promote collaborative, experiential, and peer driven knowledge-sharing in a safe environment. The Society for News Design is an international organization for visual communicators who create print, […]

 

Information graphics allow us to distill large quantities of information into a digestible package. Through graphics, ideas that might otherwise be abstract become familiar and more easily understood. Today, there’s a lot of free graphic design software that allows you to easily create visualizations. TimelineJS TimelineJS is an open-source tool that enables a visual journalist […]

 

Professional Perspective: Joe Ward  After studying geography at the University of Buffalo, Joe joined The New York Times as a cartographer. After a short stint as a mapmaker, he spent several years there as a page designer before becoming the Times’s sports graphics editor. He has held that position since 1991 and his work focuses […]

 

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 […]

 

InfoAmazonia costing nature maps

Illegal logging, urban sprawl, advancing agricultural frontier and impacts of infrastructure works are the villains of deforestation in the Amazon. Projections made by a mapping tool indicate that, at current rates, hard woods will last just a little more than two centuries. Fortunately, this same technology may be able to help prevent the deforestation. Costing Nature […]