Reading: Lankow, Jason, Ritchie, Josh and Crooks, Ross (2012) Infographics: the Power of Visual Storytelling

• “ The design of information is nothing new. From the earliest cave paintings to modern-day data visualization, humans have always utilized graphic depictions as a representation of information.”

• “`Images and graphics should always look appealing and encourage viewers to engage in the content.”

• “People have long accepted the notion that a picture can replace a thousand words, and similarly, that a simple graph can replace a table full of numbers. Basic visualization allows us to immediately comprehend a message by detecting notable patterns, trends, and outlines in the data.”

•  “By definition, all information graphics are aimed at communicating information.”