Summary
"The challenge in creating a good infographics was to turn something extremely complex into an understandable, attractive informative graphics, and to give less sophisticated audience a better understanding of the technological innovations taking place within the company" I believe this quote is the main care of what we are studying in this class. Another challenge is that it is true that engineers are the one with the knowledge, but we as designers are here to help communicate their knowledge to anyone who need to understand the process of the given subject.

We as designers need to really understand the data, and process them ourselves in order to create a really good graphics. We need to immerse ourselves in the subject and do our own reporting. We constantly need to search for ways that graphics can support the stories. We want to help people to understand what is going on in the stories. As a famous proverb say a picture say a million words. Find a balancing act for each infographic; provide enough detail to illuminate the content, but showing too much content may alienate some readers. The main point is that a good information designer needs to know their subject, and have a passion for it.

Generalizations are not dumbing down. It is a way to make sure that every audience can understand the message that we convey in the images.Other way that Funnel incorporated do to help people understand their maps quicker and easier are by icons. Icons are embedded into the maps. The icons would also provide the client with a set of hieroglyphics symbolizing each product or service.

Topics Covered
Alejandro Tumas
The New York Times
Funnel Incorporated
White Rhino
Nigel Holmes
The Wall Street Journal

Two links germaine to topics covered
1. http://www.designcrux.netfirms.com/designex_infographics.html
The acticle is Exploring Visual Information Design. It states that visual information has the difficult task of revealing the vital essence of a situation without needless complexity. The article will help us to achieve those things.

2.http://www.instantshift.com/2009/06/07/infographic-designs-overview-examples-and-best-practices/
A site that shows a variety of a very good infographics examples with some explanations of how to make a good infographics.


The Wall Street Journal Guide to Information Graphics
The Wall Street Journal Guide to Information Graphics