ANALYSIS 3 (source: advanceinternet.com)

(Source: http://inspiredm.com/oscar-infographics/)

This information graphic is about the most treasured film awards: the Academy Awards. The infographic shows the most fascinating aspects of the prizes: the artists with record numbers, a timeline with the most important events in the history of the Oscars and a little curious comparison.

This information graphic is very figurative. Except the timeline, information that is describing is represented as it says: for the records of the Academy Awards, the author uses cartoons (Oscars) to show the number, and uses also drawings for the comparisons for to make it much more visual.

In addition, we found several decorative elements (such as the figure of Oscar in the middle and all the drawings on the timeline).

All this makes the infographic quite dense, due also to the amount of text that we can observe around each shape.

Despite being all turning around the same topic (the Academy Awards), the information displayed is totally different from one another.

The timeline, comparison and bar charts are very familiar to us, so it’s not original at all.

We can say that the infographic is also redundant since it added them to graphics text and number, so you can even get repeated information.

To conclude, this information graphic is intelligible and shallower as it shows the information in a very simple and basic way. It is not very deep in some aspects, but it highlights the curiosities of Academy Awards. Therefore, this infographic could be interesting both moviegoers and those who just follow it occasionally.

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: