Ambassador Workshop Focuses on Information Design

The workshop was organized by Nicola Mastrorilli and Marco Sors, founders of Cartesiani (an Italian blog on information design) and Infogram Ambassadors.

Using Infogram, they conducted a practice session during a workshop on information design. The participants learned the story of visual communication, the work of an information designer, the main tools to make data visualization and an explanation of some projects of Cartesiani.

Participants never made an infographic before and had only 2 hours to study and discuss the data set, design and make the infographic. They really appreciate the intuitive user interface of Infogram and its “democratic“ approach to data visualization.

The Workshop and What Happened 

On June 10, Marco and I had the pleasure to hold a workshop on data visualization at Madee, the MasterLab in Digital Economics & Entrepreneurship of Digital Academia. It is one of the most innovative digital training programs in Italy and this one is the 7th edition. After a two-hour introduction to the magical world of information design, we launched a special contest: two hours to make an infographic, using Infogram, that compared Twitter and Instagram.

We divided the group into four small teams: “The Early Adopters”, “Equipe de los mariachis”, “Third Class”, “We run Milano”.

As in other contests, in order to adjust the evaluation scale, we decided to assign a score according to five elements:

1. Data elaboration
2. Layout and structure
3. Storytelling
4. Graphics
5. Originality

All the teams made really good work; it seems like they attendees were naturally prepared for working with digital tools. Each team deserved a special mention.

Let’s start with the first team, “The Early Adopters”, composed of Andrea Nelli, William Dotto e Francesco Guerra.

Their work deserved a special mention for the word butt used for comparing the company acquisitions Twitter and Instagram had gone through. You can see the infographic here.

The total score was 70 Points.

The second team was “Equipe de los mariachis”, composed by Andrea Andolfato, Tommaso Salamon e Silvia Currò. Their work deserved a special mention for the variety of charts and for the graphic coherence. You can see the infographic here.

The total score was 80 Points.

The third team was “Third Class”, composed by Marco Giusti, Matteo Bonsembiante e Sebastiano Calzavara. Their work deserved a special mention for the clean structure and the detailed source references. You can see the infographic here.

The total score was 75 Points.

The fourth team (and winner) was “We run Milano”, composed by Annalisa De Santis, Daniele Calabrò, Adrian Oros e Federico Pianzola. Their work deserved a special mention for the original approach: they made the comparison based on a real event. You can see it here.

The total score was 90 Points.

With the help of Marco and Nicola, the world of infographics expanded to those who attended the workshop in Italy. The participants were able to utilize Infogram to create data visualizations in a simple way.