Friday, October 20, 2006

What are information graphics

After two-year worked as news designer, I got more interested to know more about information graphic. Even though it is popular among news workers but not many people know what it means.


From Wikipedia:
Information graphics or infographics are the visual representations of information, data or knowledge.
These graphics are used anywhere where information needs to be explained quickly or simply, such as in signs, maps, journalism, technical writing, and education. They are also used extensively as tools by computer scientists, mathematicians, and statisticians to ease the process of developing and communicating conceptual information. They are applied in all aspects of scientific visualization.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infographics

In the book of "Newspaper Graphics", Peter Sullivan describes information graphics as:
Any combination of drawings, words, and photographic images to create visual means whereby news and feature coverage is extended in order to help the newspaper reader towards a fuller understanding of the word of the page.


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