Infographics as Images: Meaningfulness beyond Information

Proceedings

Matteo Moretti¹  Valeria Burgio¹ 

[1] Faculty of Design and Art. Libera Università di Bolzano, Piazza Università, 39100 Bolzano Bozen, Italy;

关键词: data visualization;    visual journalism;    illustration and decoration;    abstraction and pictographic communication;   

DOI  :  10.3390/proceedings1090891

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

What kind of images are data visualizations? Are they mere abstract transformations of numerical data? Should they reduce the phenomenal world into a set of pre-codified shapes? Or can they represent natural phenomena through figurative strategies? What is the boundary between useless decoration, narrative illustration and helpful visual metaphors? Through post-design reflections on a visual journalism project, the paper focuses on the context-dependent role of images in data visualization.

【 授权许可】

Unknown