The Power of Infographics
A few days ago I was talking with one of my mentors about how important it is to capture the most important ideas on a graphic scheme. Whether it's a concept map, an uml diagram, a flow chart, or simple scribbles on a restaurant napkin, the art of organizing ideas ends up being more than entertaining.
Infographics have become fashionable at this time, in the quest to show a conceptual scheme, an abstract idea through graphs that are arranged in harmony, symmetry or movement; which is more useful than the traditional text-only abstract, or hundreds of pages of an idea difficult to explain in five minutes. Hence, visionaries have this mania of speaking as in infographics, believing that everyone understands them; but it takes 13 years later.
The example of the Infographics of Good Luck Amulets is about a fairly daily, folkloric and in many questionable subject matter as you understand that the only way to create luck is by being disciplined.
That the object of the infographic does not go with my common sense, it does not limit me to give credit to how it is built:
- Starting from the amulets of luck, particularizes in the five most desirable amulets in the world:
- Horseshoe
- The four-leaf clover
- The rabbit's paw
- Elephant
- Broom
- Then the amulets of popular tradition:
- The Happy Buddha for the Chinese
- The candlestick for the Jews
- The jade stone in other cultures with quasi extraterrestrial inheritance
- The old shoe in medieval times
- And the turtle in Feng Shui
Creativity seems interesting to me, although very linear and predictable when dealing with such a philosophical subject. In what I will totally agree with the infographic (in terms of content), is that what for one context is good luck, in others it will be precious. In general the design, I like it and that motivates me to review it.
For my part, to write my luck with daily inspiration in things that are worth in the long term. For those who like this topic with more passion, there is the Infographics of lucky charms.