ANALYSIS 5 (source: Infographicbox.com)

(Source: http://www.infographicbox.com/infographics/auguste-lumiere-150th-birthday-2/)

This is an information graphic dealing with the 150th birth anniversary of the Lumiére brothers, the fathers of cinema. In the infographic we can appreciate the most relevant events of their lives, their first film, the cinematographe and how their invention affected the mass society.

It is an almost entirely figurative graphic because, although it explains the information with the help of text, drawings show what is represented.

Therefore, the infographic has a lot of decoration that reinforces the information but, at the same time, it could be eliminated.

It's a pretty clear graphic information, although numerous decorative elements will transmit the feeling of some density, but we cannot notice an overload of information.

It is quite unidirectional, as it displays different information about the same topic.

This is an infographic that is familiar to us, because the information is represented through drawings. Still, there are certain aspects in the original way to present the drawings.

Moreover, even if there are redundant elements that are repeated, most of the information that shows the infographic is novelty.

Thus, it is an intelligible and shallower graphic information: it displays basic information on the same topic in a simple, clear and direct way. This may be an infographic aimed to people that don’t know how the cinema was born, as we have said above it shows the basic information in a very superficial way, without going into further reading.




This is the tension wheel which is used to analyze information graphics. The important thing is to relate the points until you create an area. Then, this area is used to achieve a prompted conclusion: