Creating effective infographics

Welcome to Creating effective infographics: presenting data with influence and integrity. This course is about data visualisation and creating infographics. By the end of this course, participants should be able to:

• know their audience, message and data

• choose the right visual for their data, audience and message

• design the visual, including use of colour, font and accessibility features

• understand the infographic development process.

The details

The course runs on 28 and 29 October 2026 (Tuesday and Wednesday) via Teams, 10:00 to 15:00 (with an hour for breaks; Australian Eastern Daylight Time).

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About Biotext

Biotext is a team of content experts, specialising in scientific and complex information. We are content strategists, content designers, writers, editors and visual designers who turn complex information into compelling communication. We offer training in writing and editing complex content, data literacy and visualisation, effective infographics and custom workshops to help you work with complex content.

Please contact us if you have any questions about this course or if you would like to book a custom course for your organisation.

At Biotext, we've been developing infographics for decades, and our training grows out of our experience in the field. Here are just some example of our work.

Exploring climate change science, information and resources: We develop infographics for climate modelling and numerous other environmental projects.

Communicating the state of the Australian environment: The 2021 State of the Environment report website exemplifies the best-practice presentation of complex content, demonstrating how a website can present scientific content in an engaging way to meet the needs of several audiences.

Presenting critical immunisation information – COVID-19 and beyond: We developed text and infographics for the online edition of he Australian immunisation handbook.

Infographics can communicate complex concepts to a variety of audiences. But making an infographic is not the same as making an effective infographic.

Course topics

Introduction to infographics – maps out the territory and looks at examples.

Laying the groundwork – looks at what we must know and understand if we are to develop infographics efficiently, including:

• audience – we must tune our message, level of complexity and form of presentation to audience needs if we are to communicate influentially

• message – we must be clear on what we want to say

• the nature of the data – we must illustrate our data with precision and integrity

• constraints and use cases – we must fit our work to our resources and to how we are going to use it.

Choosing and designing the graphic – provides tips on how to select the most appropriate visual components, and then design them to a high standard.

Developing infographics – goes through the process from brief to concept to production.

Learning method

This interactive course includes lectures, group discussions, exercises, group work and comprehensive course notes.

Who should attend?

Anyone who needs to scope, specify, conceptualise, design or evaluate infographics, for any audience. Participants can bring along materials and ideas they would like to discuss.