I went to the library and borrowed ‘Cool Infographics’ by Randy Krum. I really liked this book, especially the chapter on ‘Visual Explanations’ which shows what makes a good visual info graphic without using statistics and numerical data, which is what I was panicking about when we got the brief. My favourite info graphic that was shown was ‘Figure 2-13: A 10-step process designed as a visual explanation info graphic’ designed by Rae Hoffman. It showed simply three colour-coded characters on a path to show a certain sequence of events. (pg 78)

This design has inspired me to do something similar with maybe the events on Einsteins life, or the 8 years of developing his theory of relativity.