Infographics: all the resources you'll ever need!

Infographics are the perfect way to turn complex information into attractive visual insights. They can help researchers, marketeers, journalists or consultants to share knowledge with students, clients, readers, or the general public. If you want to start creating clear and attractive infographics, but don’t know where to start, you’ve come to the right place. This page gives you a complete overview of tools, resources and inspiration you can use as a starting point for your designs!

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Let’s Talk Science Infographics workshop:

Inspiration for infographics

Digital tools to create infographics

Photos to use in infographics

Illustrations and icons to use in infographics

Photos and illustrations (specific themes)

Colour schemes for infographics

Typography for infographics

Creating graphs for infographics

Creating maps for infographics

Books about infographics

  • Data visualisation, Andy Kirk
  • Dear Data, Giorgia Lupi & Stefanie Posavec
  • Information graphics, Taschen
  • Infographic designers’ sketchbooks, Steven Heller & Rick Landers
  • Storytelling with data, Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic
  • The visual display of quantitative information, Edward Tufte
  • Trees, maps and theorems, Jean-Luc Doumont
  • Visual journalism, Gestalten
  • Visual thinking, Willemien Brand

People on Twitter talking about infographics

Videos about infographics

Infographic blogs and online magazines

Infographic podcasts

Books on a bookshelf - infographics resources

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Amazing facts about the brain - teaser

Infographic: Amazing facts about the brain

Did you know that our brain makes up 2% of our body weight, but consumers about 20% of our energy? Did you know that we have a second brain, located in our gut?

Our information designer Sofia made this insightful infographic, giving you an overview of eight amazing facts about the brain!

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29 September 2022

Birthday heatmap

How common is your birthday?

Not all birthdays are created equal... in fact, for most countries in the north temperate zone, more people are born in summer (May - August) than in winter (October - January). This heatmap allows you to check how popular your birth date is. It shows the number of people in Belgium for each specific birthday.

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19 July 2022

Visualizing complexity by Superdot: interior

Visualizing Complexity: Dataviz book review

Visualizing Complexity is a great new data visualization book published by information design Superdot. Here's our verdict.

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8 July 2022

This chart is trying to trick you

The original chart in this example is trying to suggest a strong correlation between sugar intake and obesity in the US between 1980 and 2000. It does so by carefully choosing the vertical axis ranges and scaling so both lines nicely fall on top of each other.

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3 June 2022

Books on a bookshelf - infographics resources

Research visuals: all the resources you’ll ever need!

If you want to start creating clear and attractive visuals about your research, but don't know where to start, this page is for you! Here's a complete overview of tools, resources and inspiration you can use as a starting point for your designs.

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18 April 2022

Small datasets to practice your data visualization skills

When you're teaching data analysis or data visualization, or when you're learning new data visualization tools and techniques, you might be looking for datasets to practice with. Here are some great starting points.

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19 October 2021

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