Last week’s discussion on W.E.B. Du Bois’ Hand-Drawn Infographics was an interesting conversation. The graphical style at times seems more focused on the style of which the information was presented, rather than making the information easy to process. For someone who was not alive during the period in which these infographics were made, understanding the presented information is challenging.

The color palate is quite appealing and the diagrams themselves appear more as an artistic piece rather than an informational piece. I think the project was semi-successful in its goal to inform and illustrate information in an “innovative” method.

For infographics that were not produced via computer, it is quite impressive how clean each document is.