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J. HarderCreating Infographics with Adobe Illustrator: Volume 1https://doi.org/10.1007/979-8-8688-0005-4_1

1. What Are Infographics?

Jennifer Harder1  
(1)
Delta, BC, Canada
 

Before you begin deciding what kind of infographic to create, whether that be as a preliminary sketch or when you start working in Illustrator, it is important to have a firm idea about what exactly is an infographic. You may already know that an infographic needs to somehow convey information graphically. But how can that be done? Before you can understand that, we need to look at how long infographics and logos have been around. You might be surprised, they have quite a long history ...

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