Every infographic is built around one of three visual frameworks

By Bill Keaggy

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Hello Friend,

Every career or activity or hobby has hidden secrets. I'm not talking about "dark" secrets, I'm more talking about "insider" secrets. For information designers who specialize in infographics, visual frameworks are one of those ubiquitous, fundamental, but sometimes invisible things that few people outside the field know about.

Visual frameworks are the backbone of nearly every infographic you’ve ever seen, or ever will see. Almost every visual story can be built around (or retroactively reduced to) being a Process, a System, or a Comparison.

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