As humans move towards becoming a global community, we become linked in a "webbed environment of urban landscape" ¹

The data that is generated stays in a cyberspace database. As a result, information designers have to resolve how to make sense of the sheer amount of information that 6 - 8 billion people create.

"The visual form we adopt becomes driven by the tool or the topic we are presenting, rather than the usefulness of the data or the insight it gives us. ²

The future of infographics is going to be most affected by the inclusion of motion graphics. The animation world, through applications such as Flash, is heavily influencing user expectations of graphics.

This is going to be a specialized field because not everyone has the capability or professional training to creation motion graphics. One designer named Jonathon Jarvis is an advocator of the motion graphic. Jarvis' goal is to create "a suite of logos, symbols, and software that makes performances like these available to anyone seeking to hash out an issue." ³

 

The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.

Why the Crisis of Credit Visualization Works: According to Jonathon Jarvis.

1. It speaks to the economic crisis by giving it form in a short, straightforward story.

2. It argues that designer's can take complex information and turn it around and communicate it to others.

3. By taking a complex issue and turning it into an interactive graphic. The topic becomes comprehensible

and relationships between shapess and theories are created. ⁵