25/07/2020
Today I am learning about infographics and have discovered they have been around for over a century. In 1857 Florence Nightingale created the 'Coxcomb' chart which was a combination of a bar and pie charts, stacked on one another, to visually display data of causes of death, per month, during the Crimerean war.
"Between 1925 and 1934, the Social and Economic Museum of Vienna developed the Isotype, or International System of Typographic Picture Education. Otto Neurath was the museum's founding director. Gerd Arntz was the artist responsible for creating the graphics. The aim of the Isotypes was to represent social facts pictorially and to bring statistics to life by making them visually attractive and memorable" (French & LinkedIn Learning 2020)
An Inforgaphic should tell a cohesive story, be easy to understand, visually appealling and designed in a way that is pleasing to the eye and interactive. The text should support the images and not overtake the visual elements. The color in an infographic should be shades of the same color to represent your data well, colors have varying effects on audiences and set a mood.
Infographic expample : https://www.iucnredlist.org/
Image: IUCN (2020)
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