Creating Infographics with Adobe Illustrator: Volume 1: Learn the Basics and Design Your First Infographic

This full-color book will teach you how to use Adobe Illustrator's various tools to create infographics, as well as basic page layouts for them. This is the first of three volumes which will cover all the fundamentals of Illustrator, an industry standard application used by graphic designers and marketing and communication teams.

How is an infographic different from a logo or any other illustration? What additional thought processes, skills, or software tools should be utilized to create an infographic? In this first volume of Illustrator Basics, you will learn the answers to all these questions. Author Jennifer Harder will walk you through creating basic infographics in Illustrator using Basic Shape tools, Pen Tools, Type Tools, and Symbols.

Upon completing this volume, you will have an appreciation for how easy it is to design an infographic and discover how rudimentary shapes and colors can affect readability while conveying meaning to your audience. You will be able to use this knowledge to create your own infographics using Illustrator's wide array of tools.

Who This Book Is For

• Discover the tools within Illustrator that are ideal for creating basic infographics
• Develop a logo based upon a scanned sketch
• Gain an understanding of different infographic layouts and the process of reviewing them with your client

Who This Book Is For

Beginner-level designers and others who are interested in learning the process of creating infographics for their company, the classroom, for a visual resume, an article in a magazine, or a webpage.

這本全彩色書籍將教你如何使用Adobe Illustrator的各種工具來創建資訊圖表，以及為它們創建基本的頁面佈局。這是三卷中的第一卷，將涵蓋Illustrator的所有基礎知識，這是一個行業標準應用程序，被平面設計師、市場營銷和傳播團隊廣泛使用。

資訊圖表與標誌或其他插圖有何不同？創建資訊圖表需要使用哪些額外的思考過程、技能或軟體工具？在這本Illustrator基礎知識的第一卷中，作者Jennifer Harder將引導你使用基本形狀工具、筆工具、文字工具和符號在Illustrator中創建基本的資訊圖表。

完成這本書後，你將體會到設計資訊圖表有多麼容易，並發現基本的形狀和顏色如何影響可讀性，同時向觀眾傳達意義。你將能夠利用這些知識使用Illustrator的各種工具創建自己的資訊圖表。

這本書適合誰閱讀：
- 探索Illustrator中適合創建基本資訊圖表的工具
- 基於掃描的草圖創建標誌
- 了解不同的資訊圖表佈局以及與客戶審查它們的過程

這本書適合初學者設計師和其他有興趣學習為公司、教室、視覺簡歷、雜誌文章或網頁創建資訊圖表的人士。

Jennifer Harder has worked in the graphic design industry for over fifteen years. She has a degree in graphic communications and is currently teaching Acrobat and Adobe Creative Cloud courses at Langara College. She is also author of several Apress books and related videos.

Jennifer Harder在平面設計行業工作超過十五年。她擁有平面傳媒學位，目前在Langara College教授Acrobat和Adobe Creative Cloud課程。她還是幾本Apress書籍和相關視頻的作者。