Abstract
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 other humans. Though they have changed in structure over time, some kinds of infographics that were used hundreds of years ago have translated well into the digital computer age and continue to be used by us today. The history of infographics or graphic communication is a very broad topic and in no way could be fully discussed in this book. However, in this chapter, I think it is important to present some key events, cultures, and people in history who played a role in the creation and progression of infographics and logos into the present day. In turn, this will give you a better understanding of how to build your infographics later in Illustrator, as well as form a vision of how your design should appear.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2023 The Author(s), under exclusive license to APress Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Harder, J. (2023). What Are Infographics?. In: Creating Infographics with Adobe Illustrator: Volume 1. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/979-8-8688-0005-4_1
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/979-8-8688-0005-4_1
Published:
Publisher Name: Apress, Berkeley, CA
Print ISBN: 979-8-8688-0004-7
Online ISBN: 979-8-8688-0005-4
eBook Packages: Professional and Applied ComputingApress Access BooksProfessional and Applied Computing (R0)