Information graphics or infographics are graphic visual representations of information, data or knowledge. You can use these to give information about something but making the design look more creative and pleasing to the viewers eye.
Brainstorm-
Cave paintings-
- Beautiful, detailed, colorful representations found on the inside of cave walls
- Usually drawn images of horses, bison, and deer or tracings of hands and abstract paintings
- Lascaux is the most famous cave painting site which was discovered by teenage boys in 1940 on accident. They were about 16,000 years old
- Closed in 1963 because of carbon dioxide emitted from the tourists. They made a replica.
- Altamira cave has red clay in the soil so most of the paintings are red
- Discovered by Marceline Sanz de Sautoula and his daughter Maria
- Oldest pairings site- Chauvet Point Arc discovered in 1994 by three speleologists. Used 3D effect.
- Cave paintings were made to show a story or teach lessons
- Sumer is where cuneiform was created
- Cuneiform was created to help track business transactions
- It started out as pictographs
- After the akkadians conquered, they started using the language
- It made them sophisticated because they could communicate
- Carved and painted images were discovered inside the temples
- The Books of the Dead are books that the commissioners wrote before they died to help them get into the after life
- Rosetta stone- a slab of stone that had engravings on it. Egyptian hieroglyphics, demotic, and greek
- The stone could not be deciphered because a chunk of it was missing. Jean Francois Champollion matched up hieroglyphics and deciphered it. We now know more than we did before
- Based that one sign represents one spoken sound that started with consonants
- Most of the shapes were angular and straight
- This was the first widespread script that allowed the common people to be able to read and write
- Greek came to Greece and made trade agreements with the Phoenicians
- Letters were included and some consonants were thought to be vowels
- Gave rise to many other alphabets
- Romans were the first to make the alphabet into aligned rows
- Serifs were originated from trying to keep the letters from slipping when they were drying
- Codex is a covered and bound collection of hand written pages
- Rise of Christianity helped get it popular
- Illuminated manuscripts were used for christian masses and important pieces of information which made them sacred.
- Johannes Gutenberg invented the technology of printing with moveable type
- He used it to create bibles and it made the use of newspapers
- Printing press, intaglio press, lithography printing press, offset lithography printing press
- James O. Clephane
- Ottmar Mergenthaler fixed it and put improvements
- This allowed type to be done by hand
- Joseph Niepce was the first man to take a successful photo
- Kodak, Polaroid, Zoopraxiscope, Motion Picture Projector
- 1936, Zuse invented the first freely programmable computer
- Used for US gunnery at first
Maybe I can make the background look like a cave wall, and then i put hieroglyphics around it and put the font so that it looks like it could fit into the background
