Infographic and processes as a communication format

Information which means power and wealth throughout the history, has come to a point whose speed and intensity can not be reached and which is needed to be controlled. The increase in the speed of the access to the information and variation in the methods of accessing it do not mean to have more information. One of the biggest problems of our age is unedited information and the chaos created by this. Therefore; designing information is a must and infographic design helps us regarding to this topic with the power of design. The significance of infographics that are designed to make the information fast, effective and catchy has been increasing day by day. This study is a research and a proposal about what infographics are and how they are designed. In the first part of the study, what information and infographic were explained and the history of infographics was analyzed. In the second part of the study, methods to create infographics and new expansions related to it were researched and detailed through the examples. In the third part, infographics were examined in terms of visual communication and visual design; infographic design was discussed through basic principles and graphic design principles. In the last part of this study, a design proposal was created in order to answer how an infographic design should be.