I think most people assume that USA Today invented the infographic, but believe it or not, infographics have been around for as long as humans could scribble on a cave wall. Of course we got a lot better at scribbling and when art mixed with the printing press a new era was born. Some say and era of enlightenment, but regardless, there were plenty of “vintage” infographics around to communicate with a less literate public.

This was especially important since visuals were only found in the print media (television was a few years away) and images could say far more than a thousand words. As is the case with vintage infographic displaying a “Capitalist Pyramid” which certainly does not hold back on the political message denouncing Capitalism. Let’s look beyond the political bias and see it for what it is when that is stripped away. A very nice piece of art that graphically communicates a message, in other words, an infographic. But a very beautiful infographic. Not trying to take away anything from the thousands of new infographics produced every year, but you won’t be seeing beauties like this again.

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