Our featured infographic designer this week is Alan Martinez, who was born in 1988 in Mexico City and is currently a Senior Editor in infographics at Xinhua News Agency, Mexico. He has degree in design and audiovisual communication at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), with a specialty in editorial design and illustration.
In 2013, Alan joined the Xinhua News Agency team, holding the position of junior-editor graphic designer. In this international environment, he learned how to create an illustrative message with visual aids in a more compact and explanatory level of information. Alan says that what motivates him to be an infographic designer is the “constant learning of new issues and the sharing of that knowledge with others.”
“To inform, explain, publicize events, facts and features about something, this is the noblest part of being a visual journalist. If you can make a child understand it, you’re doing well. So a good design should inform in a clear, compact and attractive way, covering a public recipient of a wide range of ages.”
What he most enjoys producing in his work are the major graphics with exploded views, cutaways and illustrations, and the issues related to Science, Technology, Sports and History are his favorites.
Here are the works Alan shared with us:
Bottled water | Xinhua News Agency
Super Mario Bros 30th anniversary | Xinhua News Agency
Antidepressants | Xinhua News Agency
Smart houses | Xinhua News Agency
Falcon-9 | Xinhua News Agency
30 years since the first Dragon Ball | Xinhua News Agency
The greenhouse effect and COP20 | Xinhua News Agency
How to make a stove with two cans | Xinhua News Agency
Gabriel García Márquez | Xinhua News Agency
160th anniversary of King G. Gillette | Xinhua News Agency
The history of the World Cup ball | Xinhua News Agency
130 years of photographic film | Xinhua News Agency
Argentina and Messi | Xinhua News Agency
Nintendo 3DS | Xinhua News Agency
World Cup: Nigeria vs Argentina | Xinhua News Agency
Raspberry PI2 | Xinhua News Agency
World Conference of Robotics 2015 | Xinhua News Agency
Superbowl XLIX | Xinhua News Agency
Venus Williams | Xinhua News Agency
For more works by Alan Martinez, visit his NewsPageDesigner profile.