Yeah – It’s that time of year again! Here’s what I’ve been up to.
Imagine if we could convince more clients to let us produce evaluation report summaries in this dashboard-esque format.
Side note: I deviated from my normal routine and made this report in Illustrator, which I learned while taking Alberto Cairo’s MOOC on infographics in October & November 2012. While I think the basic Microsoft suite, which I used for last year’s report, works perfectly well for most purposes I realized what Illustrator could do: produce this report as a vector image. If you don’t already know, vector images can be infinitely resized without losing their crispness and detail. No fuzzy pixels when expanding the graphic! And throughout my 2012 workshops, I often put my annual report, or portions of it, on a big projected screen for discussion. And it was a bit fuzzy! So I used Illustrator for this annual report because I knew I’d want to dramatically increase the size during 2013. I remain extremely committed to the idea of making Excel and Word do your bidding, but there’s a time and a place for bending my own rules, eh?
Beautiful! Love the layout!
¡Feliz Año Nuevo, Stephanie!
JP
Muchas gracias, JP! Here’s to a great 2013.
Happy 2013! I love this. I ‘incorporated’ my consulting business late 2012 and will need to do an annual report in 2013. Thanks for the inspiration, as always!
Great infographic-annual report! The amount of garlic consumed is especially impressive. I agree that Illustrator is a valuable tool to have in the tool kit. I use it as well as Excel and Tableau for dashboard design.
Very inspiring, Stephanie!! I always learn so much from you!
I think you just inspired the cover of an evaluation report that I am about to submit and present. You are always so creative!
Thank you!