Visual graphics is the soon to be new gold mine of graphic design. Considering in one year we produce more data than all the previous years combined. But we as humans can not process all this information in their true forms, computers can in 1's and 0's but for us to look at that would take ages to figure out what we are even looking at....That's why we need to harness all this data and create it into something visual. By enterpiting and creating data that is easy to understand it helps people be understand their world better and how to function and adapt.
We are in an information overload these days from billions of pictures being put on facebook to trillions of dollars that are mysteriously going places that are not benefiting the majority of the population. By making data easier to understand we can prevent crisises. It is shown that the the financial crisis in 2008 could have been prevented if records could have been easier to read for people processing information comes as quick as it goes (within seconds) to make smarter decisions. Famous staticien and infographic designer Edward Tufte has a valid argument where executing a decision through carefully designed arguments could have saved the space shuttle The Challenger http://www.asktog.com/books/challengerExerpt.html
In time graphics will rapidly almost take over words, who wants to read a several paragraphs when you can understand something by a visually appealing communicative design?
Maybe, I'll write something later on this topic....but I have a few more posts to do
here is a cool site http://www.visualizing.org/ please do check "where is my tax dollars going"
also the infographic above is Linkedin's connection of one person to many (graphs can be sexy)
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