Ancient History–Pre-1600 AD
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What Is the Difference Between an Infographic and a Logo? – What Are Infographics?-1
Today’s beginner graphic artist, who is training in graphic design, would likely develop a logo first before creating an infographic. Infographics must be more accurate factually, while a logo we can consider more like an ancient stamp. Yes, it represents a company, but in a more abstract and sometimes ambiguous way, it is just a design. What it actually represents may not be important as long as it satisfies the client. This is not to say that creating a logo does not take time and effort. But with an infographic, often the design is more elaborate requiring many components or steps, and you really need to do your research to…
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2001 AD–Present and Modern Infographics – What Are Infographics?
The 2000s and onward have seen many types of infographics being able to be produced more quickly using computer programs like Adobe Illustrator, which allows us to create scalable versions of a design, and Adobe Animate (formerly known as Flash until 2016), which allows us to animate those drawings. Other Adobe applications also added further 3D and video options for the graphic designer. Refer to Figure 1-28. Figure 1-28. Pictorial timeline of 2001 AD to the present For your website coding with HTML 5 and CSS3, along with JavaScript (jQuery) and Chart.js libraries and plug-ins that allow us to create charts and graphs quickly to display data in real time…
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1901 AD–2000 AD – What Are Infographics?-1
In 1900, charts and graphics continued to be popular and published. Refer to Figure 1-17. Figure 1-17. Pictorial timeline of 1901–2000 AD Notable users include W. E. B. Du Bois where he and his team created 60 data visualization charts about the lives of Black Americans. Refer to Figure 1-18. Figure 1-18. Pictorial examples of three of Du Bois’s data visualization charts While the first organizational chart was developed in 1854, it was not called this until 1914. However, it was not until the 1920s that they began to be used more frequently, along with the flow process chart in 1921. Though they are not as appealing with only rudimentary…
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Ancient History–Pre-1600 AD – What Are Infographics?
One of the earliest forms of drawings that you are probably aware of is the cave paintings of Lascaux near Montignac, France. Some anthropologists believe them to be around 17,000 years old (15,000 BC). While this is considered an example of Paleolithic art, some anthropologists and art historians wonder, “Could this be a representation of a past hunting expedition or some type of mystical ritual?” For today’s modern viewers, we cannot be sure as there is no text or familiar icons that come with the drawing, so we are left unsure as to the artists’ true intentions. At the very least, it does give us a clue as to what…
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A Short History About Infographics – What Are Infographics?
Before you begin deciding what kind of infographic to create, whether that be as a preliminary sketch or when you start working in Illustrator, it is important to have a firm idea about what exactly is an infographic. You may already know that an infographic needs to somehow convey information graphically. But how can that be done? Before you can understand that, we need to look at how long infographics and logos have been around. You might be surprised, they have quite a long history over thousands of years and basically began as soon as humans started to combine pictures and a form of writing together to create instructions for…