In Sept 2016 I attended the Reasons To ... conference in Brighton, UK.
Read more about the conference here
During the 3 days I jotted notes, ideas and references into a large Moleskine. Worried my notes may make less sense over time, In've transcribed them below. Enjoy.
Key
person to find / follow etc.
book/ article
wikipedia link
something to search
random notes
my thoughts / questions
Image / photo reference
web
A few months back I was invited by Glynis Powell and Sue Knox of the Marches Network (a group of museum development officers working across the West Midlands) to create an infographic to show off their work.
The information was a mix of statistics and text-based information on the various projects and successes throughout the year.
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The Layout
Grouping the Information
My first job was to look through the information for groupings - a
I've been considering the relationship between brand guidelines and infographics recently. I'd love your thoughts on this - tweet me!
A lot of infographics created today are wholly standalone from the rest of the company's materials.
Is this right? Should infographics be 100% branded, partially or not at all?
(of course, it depends on the use, right?)
In my experience there are 3 potential scenarios:
client wants the infographic to strictl...
Congratulations to Engineers Mate, a West Midlands engineering supply company, who recently approached Caroline Beavon Ltd to boost their entry for the Express and Star Business Awards 2014.
On the night they picked up the Young Business Award.
The company wanted a one page infographic (below) to explain the growth of the company over the past 12 months, as well as a series of slide images to use during their presentations to the judges.
It was gr
Caroline Beavon is a freelance information and infographics designer - get in touch for more details
It's been another one of those funny short bank Holiday weeks - but here's a quick summary of what I've been working on in the infographics design world, and training!
SCIENCE CAPITAL
On Tuesday night I spoke at the Science Capital "Doing Business With Data" event at Millennium Point in Birmingham.
The focus of my talk was Presenting Yo...
Icons, pictograms, smileys, dingbats - call them what you like - visual language is a fascinating area of design.
Yes, varieties of visual language has been used for years, with varying degrees of success, and it's likely that icons will one day be relegated to the "naf bin".
For now, thought, there are a range of icons out there that can really spice up your website, infographic or presentation
But use with care - here are my 10 tip...
You can see more of my infographic and data visualization work here
A few months ago I was invited to create an infographic for the charity, Sampad.
The challenge was this: to show some of the key statistics from their year of activity, in a small area on a single or series of small infographics.
(They were keen to reduce their annual report in both page-size and page-numbers, but didn't want to reduce the amount of information on displa
