Infographics workshop: additional resources
Inspiration
- Information is Beautiful: informationisbeautiful.net
- Information is Beautiful awards: informationisbeautifulawards.com
- Visual.ly: visual.ly/view
- Pinterest: pinterest.com
- Google Dataset Search: datasetsearch.research.google.com
Digital tools
- Canva: canva.com
- Infogram: infogram.com
- Piktochart: piktochart.com
- Datawrapper: datawrapper.de
- LocalFocus: localfocus.nl
- Free infographic templates in PowerPoint: hubspot.com/infographic-templates
- List of dataviz tools: creativebloq.com/design-tools/data-visualization
- D3.js: d3js.org
Photos
- Flickr: flickr.com/
- Unsplash: unsplash.com
- Pixabay: pixabay.com
- Picography: picography.co
- Burst: burst.shopify.com
- Reshot: reshot.com
- Visual Hunt: visualhunt.com
Illustrations and icons
- Freepik: freepik.com
- The noun project: thenounproject.com
Photos and illustrations (specific themes)
- Cathopic, catholic pictures: cathopic.com
- Figshare, plant illustrations and more for biologists: figshare.com/authors/Plant_Illustrations
- Medical illustrations: smart.servier.com
Colour schemes
- Coolors.co: coolors.co
- Adobe Color CC: color.adobe.com
- Pictaculous: digitalinspiration.com/color-palette-generator
- Website color schemes: canva.com/learn/website-color-schemes
- 100 brilliant color combinations: canva.com/learn/100-color-combinations
Typography
- Dafont: dafont.com
- Google Fonts: fonts.google.com
- FontSquirrel font identifier: fontsquirrel.com/matcherator
- Font Pairing: fontpair.co
Graphs and maps
- Dataviz catalogue: datavizcatalogue.com
- Choose and design the perfect chart: chart.guide
- Choosing the right chart: infogram.com/page/choose-the-right-chart-data-visualization
- Sankey diagrams tools: flourish.studio/visualisations/sankey-charts
- Snazzy maps (Google maps styles): snazzymaps.com
- Open Street Map: openstreetmap.org
- Mapme: mapme.com/stories
Books
- Information Graphics, Taschen
- Infographic designers’ sketchbooks, Steven Heller & Rick Landers
- Data visualisation, Andy Kirk
- Visual thinking, Willemien Brand
- The visual display of quantitative information, Edward Tufte
- Trees, maps and theorems, Jean-Luc Doumont
- Visual journalism, Gestalten
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