The visual creation of graphic compositions constitutes the order of the day. Especially in this era, where visual communication is essential to provide information in all areas, from education or information to advertising or commercial presentation.

Infographics are another form of visual information representation in which visual diagrams are combined with text to summarise or figuratively explain ideas and concepts. Various types of graphics and non-linguistic and linguistic signs (pictograms, ideograms and logograms) are used to convey information, forming descriptions, expository or narrative sequences and interpretative sequences. With a didactic intention, infographics were born as a means of transmitting graphic information in a more dynamic, lively and imaginative way. Infographics are mainly used in magazines, documents, newspapers, brochures, internet pages, education, books, etc. The purpose of infographics is to attract the attention of the viewer through colours, images or designs. As its visual impact is very high, it causes virality in the publication and exponentially increases its reach.

For the elaboration of these tasks, you will mainly work with the design application Inkscape. This tool is a powerful, convenient and open source vector graphics editor, especially compatible with the standards used on the Internet.

The goal of this course is to provide participants with the necessary notions and skills to be able to create elaborate infographics with the extensive possibilities offered by the vector world of Inkscape, and of course, with the creator's own imagination. In addition to learning how to use this editing programme, certain specific aspects of graphic design will also be covered. Obviously, not only will you learn how to make infographics, but also many other more basic graphic compositions, such as shadows, gradients, logos, signs, etc., which will then complete and form part of the final infographics themselves.

Other interesting aspects will also be addressed, such as searching for and obtaining images (sources of legal use of images for our compositions), differentiating between bitmap and vector images, when to use one or the other, how to integrate them in the same composition, and even how to transform images of one type into another.