The rise of the infographic as a genre is a little depressing. Back when desktop publishing started, people were worried that there would be no more room for designers, that computers would do all the work for you. But this clearly didn’t turn out to be the case … infographics have become the mother’s day cards — the company newsletters — of data visualization.
– Eric Rodenbeck of Stamen Design, in Icon Magazine 109
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