Information is the first and greatest thing to receive, obtain, acquire, decompose, make useful, confirm or briefly to have it in an healthy way for today's people to survive. So in this thesis it's searched what is the before and after of this "thing", what it becomes as a result of its healthy and unhealty acquirements.
In this thesis titled "Information Design, Use of Data Visualisation and infographic" firstly interested in what information is, examines how it maintains today, what kind of meanings it has and in which fields with which meanings it exists. This study draws attention to struggles of all definitions to be made on information and latest current approachs made in universal level gathered together to reach the common meaning of the concept. As theoretical analysis made in the first part, there is also a theoretical approach to information design in order to reach current definitions. In this regard the data journalism, new media and human-computer interaction fields have been referred. Data collection method by examining the written documents is preferred.
Eventually, data visualization and infographic which could be considered as subheadings of information design mentioned, common and seperate sides of information design and visualization indicated. The study titled "Periodic Table of Visualization Methods" is found worthy to be examined to make understand better the similarities of data visualization and infographics and the space they cover mentioned clear, the places where visualization methods are used. Working ways and methods are suggested to researchers, educators and designers.