Research
What is a info graphic?
Graphic representations of information, date or knowledge. It presents information quickly and clearly.
Rules to Remember
-color is good!
-keep things simple
-make it appealing to the audience
-simple layout
-make sure your information is dependable!!
-emphasize cause and relationships- cause and effect
-use charts and visual aides
Types of info graphics
1.) Cause and effect: explains the relationships between different things
2.) Chronological: explains an event or process step by step
3.) Quantitive: show statistics
4.) Directional: navigate readers through the poster using visuals
5.) Product: conveys information to people about a certain product
What are info graphics used for?
-To communicate a message
-To present data in compact and easy way
-To analyze cause and effect relationships
Date to put in the timeline
- 35,000 years ago: Cave paintings. Drawn to tell stories, teach hunting techniques, and to teach about religion. Mostly located in Western Europe, Australia, Africa, and China. Common images were buffalo, horses, deer, tracings of human hands and abstract patters. Brushes made out of animal hair and sticks and paint made from water, plant juice, animal blood, soil, charcoal, and iron oxide. Use picture of a cave.
- 3,000 BC: Cuneiform and the Sumerians. Created the first written language. Created to keep track of business transactions. Written on clay tablets. The letters were wedge-shaped characters. Use picture of actual cuneiform type and letters.
- 3,000 BC: Hieroglyphics & Egyptians. Created by the ancient Egyptians. Written on walls of tombs and temples or papyrus, which was made from a substrate of weeds that was flattened, dried, and smoothed out. Hieroglyphic is derived from the two latin words: hero and glyphic. Rosetta Stone allowed for these hieroglyphics to be translated. Use picture of reeds that papyrus was made from OR a picture of pyramids OR an Egyptian coffin/tomb.
- 1,050 BC: The Phoenician Alphabet. One sign represents a spoken sound. The shapes/letters where angular and straight. They were created using a stylus. It allowed common people to read-didn't discriminate based on social class. Became a successful language because it was easy to learn and the symbols were simple. Use picture of a tablet.
- 800 BC: The Greek Alphabet. Is an adaption of the phoenician alphabet. Consonants where turned into vowels and more letters were added. Use a picture of Phoenicians traveling to Greece (how the alphabet was developed)
-7th Century BC: The Roman Alphabet. An adaption of the Greek alphabet. Written formally and informally. Use picture of a Roman war helmet.
-1st Century AD: Codex and Illuminated Manuscript. Codex replaced the scroll. A codex was a series of handwritten sheets of paper that were bound together by a spine. Monastic monks were the first to use illuminated manuscripts. Used mainly for religious purposes. Use picture of a scroll.
-105 AD: Paper created. Paper was first created in China using a substrate from wood pulp. Use picture of trees that the paper is created from OR a map of China?
-1450 AD: The Gutenberg Press. Created by Johannes Gutenberg. It was a printing press with movable type. Gutenberg lost his entire company and the printing press to his associate Mr. Fust. The printing press operated by using a hard press which was rolled over in ink on a raised surface of movable hand-set black letters. Three kinds of printing styles; porous, intaglio, and lithography. Use picture of the actual Gutenberg printing press.
-1704 AD: First weekly news was published. Published by The Boston Letter. Use picture of a newspaper.
-1886 AD: The Linotype Machine. Created by Christopher Sholes. Use picture of a linotype machine.
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