A question for fellow designers who produce infographics ...

[MitchT]

How do you do them?

• Use an online tool like Piktochart?
• Create the whole thing from scratch in Adobe Illustrator (or similar), creating all the illustrations and icons yourself?
• Download vector graphics and/or icons close to what you want to end up with from Shutterstock (or similar) and put it all together in Illustrator?
• Something else? Please specify!

[StevieBee]

Depends entirely on the brief and budget.

Preference is always to create something bespoke - always looks better. But if the client has limited budget and or needs it this afternoon, third party resources are used.

[KFC]

StevieBee said:

Preference is always to create something bespoke - always looks better

I think most of the time designers want to go 100% bespoke as you can charge more End users aren't going to be able to tell you bought that cartoon chipmunk from istockphoto rather than spent 4 hours drawing it are they.

[askew]

Depends whether it still has its watermark