N ews, the only non-violent desire that every human possess, started as hearsays, folks or to the best as government proclamations until the seventeenth century. News got democratised, structured and organised after the advent of “ Relation aller Fürnemmen und gedenckwürdigen Historien ”, world’s first weekly newspaper. During the early days, newspapers were textual and serious yet popular. They only carried columns of text, and it took two whole centuries for the first headline to ornate newspapers, this heralded the first method of condensing information into smaller and fewer words devoid of textual pleasantries. It was followed by the use of illustrations in the year 1806 by ‘The Times’ and later as pictures during the 1880’s by ‘The Daily Graphic’. The birth of Infographics During this same period in a parallel timeline, infographics were progressing steadily but confined mostly to science and technological illustrations. It first appeared in a book named ‘Rosa Ursin...