The history of music

This post is about how music developed from venyl to mp3 and other sources we use nowadays. Its a creative timeline which shows in form of different colors the popularity of each new and old source of music media through the years. From left to right it goes 0% popular to 100% popular.

The infographic is an abstract illustration of a timeline because even though there are different colors used to follow the timeline, there needs to be an explanation next to it to understand it, otherwise the viewer gets irritated. This infographic example is really difficult to classify as a easy or difficult graphic to read, because on the one hand it has a unidimensional character in fact it focuses only on topic of the history of music and its use on hardwares. Furthermore, the use of the horizontal hierarchy of the timelines, which indicates movement,  is a light and easy way to follow the story. On the other hand you can't remove any element without getting the viewer distracted or confused, which makes the graphic highly functional.

Even though the graphic seems to be tricky and difficult to follow, the redundant use of illustrations by repeating familiar symbols which are used in different ways to indicate music hardwares makes it easy to understand. So the repetition of the same symbols keeps the viewer attached to the graphic.

So in my opinion the graphic could be used either in a music magazine or newspaper because it gets the attention of the viewer through the well use of warm and cold colors and furthermore familiar symbols are used as an eye catcher to get quickly the viewers attention.

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