How to make book infographics

Book infographic is not something hard to do, just work and passion to share to be honest.

Here is the "process" I follow :

1) Read a book

• Yes that's not a really surprising step 😊

• Read the book by highlighting the passages that seem important

• Those on which the author insists and which seem to be at fault for the rest of the book

• Take notes: directly on the page or on another support

2) Centralize your book notes

• Because I read paper books, I retype my notes and key passages on my computer

• Add schemas if some

3) Filter your notes

Put your notes in a new file that will serve as a driver for the book infographic

• Based on the notes and passages in the book, make a selection

• We are not able to represent an entire book in graphic format : Limit yourself to a few key ideas and limit its explanation to a few bullet points

4) Infographic work

Once the "filtering" is done, we can start the infographic work

• To do this, I use: https://www.canva.com/

  • The site contains templates to have a working base

  • Select a basic template and iterate on it

  • For each part:

    • Put yourself in a part of the infographic and try to represent the information in a visual way based on your filtered notes (from previous step)

    • Ideally use 1 pictogram per main idea -> try to select some that have the same style

    • Few bullet points under the headlines : 2/3 lines maximum, the more visual, the better

    • The tool is a vector tool, you can group parts and resize them at will

• Once you have created the different parts that you want to appear on the book infographics, comes the longest moment: the assembly

  • Try to group the information in a coherent way by occupying the space

  • No worries if there are "blanks" in the infographic : we can easily fill them with geometric shapes to reinforce our design

  • I recommend to do several tests and ask for feedback : first feedback -> yours

    • Export it as a pdf or image and look at your infographic after a night of sleep

    • You'll see spelling mistakes and shifts or space occupancy that can be improved

5) Done

Once finalized, you just have to export it in PDF (high resolution) and that's it

Some advice

• Do not reformulate author ideas (they are not yours and you could alter author ideas)

• It takes time to do it so you need to have a strong objective in mind

• Iterate a lot by taking others feedbacks

Objective

I do it for multiple reasons:

• Book infographics allow me to anchor in my memory what I discover through a book.

  • I have not found anything better at the moment.

• I love to learn by reading and there are books that you like so much that you want to share them with others.

  • Through the infographics I hope to share my passion for these books and make others want to read them too.

Knowledge is the only thing that grows when you share it...

#sharingiscaring