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37 ··········· 总第172期 现代艺术与设计 Modern Art and Design 2007  8 论信息图形 Talking about information graphics (德)马库斯·斯洛普  Markus Schr ppel   翻译：吴琼  Translated by Wu Qiong | 内容摘要 | 本文着重阐述了在世界全球化的背景下，作为一种有效理解和快速接收的方式， 信息的图形化视觉表现成为一种基本的必要手段。从人类交流历史上的初级形式到现在的世界 性的视觉语言，信息图形将从早期的发展阶段发展成为具有现代叙事方式的交互信息图形。 |Abstract | The article places great importance on pictural visualisation of information for a better understanding and a faster reception as a basic necessity in our globalized world. Incipient from the history of human comunication to our todays international visual language it will chart the early development stage till the modern way of storytelling in interactive infographics. [关键词]  信息图形/视觉语言/标志图形 [keywords] information graphics, visual language, signage graphics 信息图形是一种集合信息、数据和知识的视觉表现手段，讨论它的 Talking about information graphics or infographics as visual 发展过程就像讨论人类的发展过程。在史前文化阶段，原始人创造了最 representations of information, data or knowledge is also like talking about the development of mankind. In prehistory, early humans created the first 初的信息图形：洞穴壁画（图 1）。人们会在任何一种文化中发现，在 information graphics: cave paintings (pict 1). In every cultural society you 语句式的表达还没有出现的时期，这些人造图形是在表达人类的思想和 will find artefacts expressing thoughts or feelings, but no expression was