Infographic Design with Adobe Illustrator Workshop

Design precise, on-brand infographics in Adobe Illustrator.

Design Tools & Tips

Fifteen years of infographic design experience is condensed into an engaging review of software and design tips.

Chart Types

Infographics training for designing charts and graphs for reports. Generative AI can have a role here.

Infographic Formats

See how infographic design informs dashboards, PDFs, interactives, and communications content.

Typography & Layouts

Get creative instruction on fonts and layouts for the best in infographic design.

Working With Data

Let’s look at ways to simplify and structure data used in infographics.

Finding The Story In Data

See examples of visual stories as told by the best infographics out there.

Infographic & Report Templates

Learn how to scale your team’s infographic design workflow using templates.

Resources & Ideas

An insider’s view of where to get high-quality infographic assets and ideas.

The Datalabs Agency’s Infographic Design with Adobe Illustrator Workshop teaches your team to build infographics in the tool professional designers actually use. Participants move from a blank artboard to a finished, brand-accurate infographic: setting up grids, working with type and colour, building charts from real data, and preparing files for both print and digital release.

Adobe Illustrator remains the standard for infographic production in studios and agencies because it gives you exact control that template tools cannot: vector output at any size, precise typography, and chart graphics built from your own data rather than a stock widget. For government departments and businesses that publish reports, that control is the difference between a graphic that looks close to the brand and one that is the brand.

The training consists of classroom-style learning, theory and hands-on exercises that help the participants get in the headspace of an infographic designer, account manager, product manager, creative director or data visualiser. The interactive parts of the training included how to construct/deconstruct an infographic, how to prototype and plan an infographic, how to use data effectively in reporting, and how to tell a story – with or without data.

How long is the Illustrator Workshop?

Four hours in total. We offer it in two two-hour sessions or as a continuous four-hour session.

Is there a limit to the number of attendees per workshop?

No. But for online or virtual training. we find between 5 and 20 attendees per workshop is optimal.

Does the Datalabs Agency Use Microsoft Teams or Zoom?

Yes, we use Teams and Zoom for delivering our Illustrator Workshops.. On-site workshops are possible, too. Ask about them in the form below.

How much would an Illustrator Workshop cost?

We can price our workshops by the number of attendees or on a per workshop basis, whichever is the least costly for you. Just ask us for an estimate.

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Tools like Canva and Piktochart make quick graphics easy, and they have their place. But when a report carries your organisation’s name, template output shows its limits: locked layouts, approximate colours, and charts you cannot fully control. This workshop teaches the underlying craft in Illustrator, so your team can produce work that template tools cannot — and repair the files agencies hand over.

This workshop, developed by data visualization experts in Melbourne, Australia, covers the Illustrator skills that matter for infographics: artboard and grid setup, the pen and shape tools in practice, working with layers, the graph tool and when to leave it, importing charts from Excel and Power BI, typography and visual hierarchy, and exporting correctly for print, PowerPoint, and the web.

We know that everyone has different learning styles, which is why we offer this Illustrator training as either a live workshop (on-site at your organization) or online (Microsoft Teams or Zoom). Live sessions follow along on participants’ own machines with exercise files supplied — a current Illustrator installation is the only prerequisite.

Data agency client of Datalabs, Mercedes-Benz

The Datalabs Agency launched it’s first interactive data visualisation in 2011. Since then, we’ve kept in touch with many of our clients from all over the world. Here what some of them have to say about us.

The templates that Datalabs produced have been very well received and I found them very pleasant to work with and open to our ideas. We have now produced a number of final study reports using the templates and they look great.

Dr Rachael Fullam

Research Manager, Forensicare

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Add to your team’s workshop experience — our Data Visualization & Storytelling Workbook is available in digital and printed versions.

The workbook consists of classroom-style instruction, theory, examples, and hands-on exercises. Order it along with our Illustrator Workshop and you will have everything you need to design great infographics. This is not your typical infographic book; it’s packed full with practical knowledge that can be applied immediately to your own projects. It doesn’t matter if you’re new to infographic design or have been creating them for years – there is something here for every skill level. By the end of this book, you can start applying these techniques in your team’s next project, creating stunning visualizations on your own.

You want better report design. Your team has Illustrator licences that mostly open other people’s files. Bridging that gap is a training problem: adult learners pick up Illustrator fastest when every exercise produces something they would actually publish, which is exactly how this workshop is built.

For example, we can use your organization’s brand guidelines in the Illustrator workshop — your swatches, your type, your grid. Exercises can use your data, so the infographics your team builds in training are drafts of graphics you will really publish.

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Otto Ottinger

Managing Director

Otto is the Datalabs Agency’s Managing Director. Having learned his data visualization skills whilst working at National Geographic, Otto now serves as the Senior Instructor and Strategist for large client engagements, holding workshops with such companies as Marriott Hotels, Al Jazeera, eBay, and the Reserve Bank of Australia.