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limitation to process large quantity of information. He famously made a comparison that the
amount of information being received by an average person from a single edition of The New
York Times is more than the amount of information a person lived in the Victorian era
received in his or her entire life. According to Wurman (1989), information anxiety is caused
by overwhelming amount of data resulted from the digital age versus our own lack of ability
to differentiate between what message we are to receive and what is not for us. The biggest
problem caused by being overwhelmed with large amount of information is the way it
hinders communication. The more messages we received at one time, the more it is likely
that we will miss some of the messages that are relevant to us. Both the sender and the
receiver of the message have to adjust in order to cope with society that offers so much
information within a small amount of time. The complex issues resulted from information
anxiety are various, from lack of communication among family members, to the amount of
information that should be allowed to be exposed to children, to the rights of companies to
advertise in certain spaces (Wurman 1989).
2.2.3 Infographic
Infographic is a branch of graphic design that utilizes design elements to communicate
complicated information. There are several types of graphic design that can be considered as
infographic, as long as it contains graphic elements that communicate large volume of
information. This research reviewed types of infographic that has evolved with the additional
element of motion and can be found in existing motion infographic works, so some
infographic format such as technical illustrationwill not be reviewed in detail.
2.2.3.1Map
A map is the most common and earliest type of infographic. Using graphic elements to
represent space, maps originally were used as tools in aiding navigation over a large area or
even inside a structure. A typical map, or route map, visually depicted the path way for the
navigator to travel and include various elements that will either aid or hinder the navigation
(land, water, oasis, etc.). Maps are later used in order to set clear boundaries between
regions. Many maps are flat with an overhead view. The relationships between elements
within a map are often but not always accurate in ratio. Sometime the ratio are
approximated, especially when the space represents something obscure like the inside of a
human body, in space, or in a fictional setting.
