Infographics in school

I had started thinking about the use of infographics in the context of our school since the end of last year. I thought that it is another way in which information can be communicated visually. My interest in this area went back a couple of years ago when I stumbled onto a related article in the Wallpaper magazine, where a design firm was engaged in helping corporations communicate their often crowded and complex fields of information. Immediately then, I thought it would make some sense in school. With my opportunity to contribute in the Corporate Communications Committee this year, this is one area which I wanted to explore.

I realised that more and more infographics are also being used on websites for the past year, Gizmodo and Wired have good sources of really inspiring images that demonstates ideas and relative information which would otherwise have not been so easy to understand. 2 of such examples I can think of is the explanation of how much storage can a terabyte hold and how much is a trillion dollars in physical bills.

After familiarising myself a little with vector graphics, I went on to produce 2 simple infographic so far. One for AFL and the other for one of our strategic thrusts.

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Infographic on Strategic Thrust 1

I have been quite pleased with how the visuals turned out so far. The next thing I need to do is to communicate this to my team and think about how these visuals can be used, and try to find out what kind of effect they have.